Posit: The HP buyout offer was announced after the closing bell yesterday - $1.2bn, or $5.70 - and after-hours trading traded $PALM around $5.88.
Proposition 1: The only reason someone would pay more for these shares than the tender offer is if they think another offer is coming, and the last time I checked, the only other interested party was Lenovo.
Proposition 2: I anxiously await a bidding war between two desktop manufacturers for control of $PALM, a company with a beautiful, technologically sound, poorly managed OS. Why? Because they *also* own Be's old technology - a beautiful, technologically sound, poorly managed OS.
Proposition 3: To properly modernize BeOS, whoever buys them should work cooperatively with the Haiku project for things like, say, Wi-Fi or USB, and in return offer Haiku patent amnesty under $PALM's patent-folio umbrella.
So, who do I want to win? Neither, really, since whoever buys them will focus on the handsets alone and neglect the fact that they FRICKING OWN BE, INC., and thus an opportunity to develop a netbook-OS that doesn't suck.
HP's attempts at open-source relations have been like a high-school backseat tryst: HP climaxes early, loses interest immediately and leaves the eager and supple open-source community sexually frustrated, so to speak. Lenovo has been, at best, benign and neglectful. They at least offer the open-source alternative to Windows on their hardware, but it's not exactly advertised, and because M$ subsidizes hardware with OEM buy-ins, it's actually more expensive an option.
Perfect world option: I'd like to see Google buy them, incorporate the niceties of WebOS into Android, and what's useful from Be's 15-yr-old OS be merged into ChromeOS. Competitors would cry foul but, come on, Android phones already outsell Palm phones, and both are dwarfed by Apple and Blackberry
A giant rock has been on Earth for forty years, and just now they're discovering that it's contains organic compounds? Um...did it fall directly into a controlled vacuum?
On the other hand, if the guy wasn't honest about his degree, how did they have any guarantee his work was honest?
Same way they "guarantee" it with everyone else, I suppose, which is to say that they don't. In fact, they do so little to hold their people accountable that no one bothered to verify his degree.
"Um..yeah, I'd like to return this book. I was making a cake, and the recipe spreads over opposite sides of a page, and as you can clearly see, the pages stick together from 'Mix dry ingredients together in large bowl' all the way through to the Book of Revelations. Unfortunately, I didn't realize this until after I'd already added the brimstone and the lake of burning sulphur, and it was the worst birthday my five-year-old ever had."
Did your doctor put you on Placebmoron like mine did? Man, that stuff is great. It cured me all sorts of times, like when I thought I had Gulf War syndrome, when I thought I had a sympathetic pregnancy, when I thought I had hysterical blindness...
I searched for the word "phone" throughout that linked article, and nowhere did it mention things like, oh, talking and listening and dialing.
That's because they want to gloss over the side-talking component. =) Plus, when they talk about the microSD slot, they only show it in a picture with the cover off...
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I wish I had mod points so I could mod you "+5, Comic Genius." Also, I wish we could mod people "Comic Genius."
The real trick is to look at the marginal take-home wage per hour if you happen to be on the edge of jumping tax brackets. Essentially, determine how much you're currently bringing home per hour worked, and comparing that to how much you'd be bringing home per EXTRA hour you worked to get the bump in income. At some point you're going to have to determine if that extra $100 in take home pay is worth the extra 10 hours you worked to get it.
At some point, quality-of-life needs to enter the equation.
The credit card company won't eat the loss - they'll mediate his dispute, and unless Dell can prove that he received the laptop, Dell will be out the one (or two) laptops they claim to have shipped and the OP will have his money refunded by his card company, who will in turn deduct it from Dell's account.
Given that it's an APO address, it will be hard to prove receipt. Better call the card issuer soon; chargeback rights vary by issuer, but typically expire 60-90 days after purchase.
The Confusion - I have to wholeheartedly agree. I read it in one day. One very loooooong day.
My favorite line would have to be: Jack Shaftoe was alive, had redeemed himself, and loved her. Best of all, he loved her from a tremendous distance, which made being loved by him ever so much less inconvenient.
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Unlike every other Stephenson novel - this one has a real conclusion!
Not in the path I read it in, you insensitive clod!
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I thought it started out slowly, picked up pace to un-put-down-ability, and turned into utter shit at the end.
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Posit:
The HP buyout offer was announced after the closing bell yesterday - $1.2bn, or $5.70 - and after-hours trading traded $PALM around $5.88.
Proposition 1: The only reason someone would pay more for these shares than the tender offer is if they think another offer is coming, and the last time I checked, the only other interested party was Lenovo.
Proposition 2: I anxiously await a bidding war between two desktop manufacturers for control of $PALM, a company with a beautiful, technologically sound, poorly managed OS. Why? Because they *also* own Be's old technology - a beautiful, technologically sound, poorly managed OS.
Proposition 3: To properly modernize BeOS, whoever buys them should work cooperatively with the Haiku project for things like, say, Wi-Fi or USB, and in return offer Haiku patent amnesty under $PALM's patent-folio umbrella.
So, who do I want to win? Neither, really, since whoever buys them will focus on the handsets alone and neglect the fact that they FRICKING OWN BE, INC., and thus an opportunity to develop a netbook-OS that doesn't suck.
HP's attempts at open-source relations have been like a high-school backseat tryst: HP climaxes early, loses interest immediately and leaves the eager and supple open-source community sexually frustrated, so to speak. Lenovo has been, at best, benign and neglectful. They at least offer the open-source alternative to Windows on their hardware, but it's not exactly advertised, and because M$ subsidizes hardware with OEM buy-ins, it's actually more expensive an option.
Perfect world option: I'd like to see Google buy them, incorporate the niceties of WebOS into Android, and what's useful from Be's 15-yr-old OS be merged into ChromeOS. Competitors would cry foul but, come on, Android phones already outsell Palm phones, and both are dwarfed by Apple and Blackberry
A giant rock has been on Earth for forty years, and just now they're discovering that it's contains organic compounds? Um...did it fall directly into a controlled vacuum?
On the other hand, if the guy wasn't honest about his degree, how did they have any guarantee his work was honest?
Same way they "guarantee" it with everyone else, I suppose, which is to say that they don't. In fact, they do so little to hold their people accountable that no one bothered to verify his degree.
"Um..yeah, I'd like to return this book. I was making a cake, and the recipe spreads over opposite sides of a page, and as you can clearly see, the pages stick together from 'Mix dry ingredients together in large bowl' all the way through to the Book of Revelations. Unfortunately, I didn't realize this until after I'd already added the brimstone and the lake of burning sulphur, and it was the worst birthday my five-year-old ever had."
Did your doctor put you on Placebmoron like mine did? Man, that stuff is great. It cured me all sorts of times, like when I thought I had Gulf War syndrome, when I thought I had a sympathetic pregnancy, when I thought I had hysterical blindness...
I searched for the word "phone" throughout that linked article, and nowhere did it mention things like, oh, talking and listening and dialing.
That's because they want to gloss over the side-talking component. =) Plus, when they talk about the microSD slot, they only show it in a picture with the cover off...
I'm neither, and I dislike him intensely.
Kinda looks like Zachary Quinto as Sylar.
Or, what if you did this?
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The plural ain't lumens, it's lumen group. (I should know - I seen them fellers in Vegas; they was pretty good.)
I wish I had mod points so I could mod you "+5, Comic Genius." Also, I wish we could mod people "Comic Genius."
The real trick is to look at the marginal take-home wage per hour if you happen to be on the edge of jumping tax brackets. Essentially, determine how much you're currently bringing home per hour worked, and comparing that to how much you'd be bringing home per EXTRA hour you worked to get the bump in income. At some point you're going to have to determine if that extra $100 in take home pay is worth the extra 10 hours you worked to get it.
At some point, quality-of-life needs to enter the equation.
Anyone else look at this and think "Gee, someone should start Fuckedcompany.com about ten years ago?"
Wish it was still around...
Psssht. I beat myself all the time.
To pics of Nurse Chappel. *sob*
Yeah, I'm totally not impressed with Vista. I'm going to wait for this 'Mojave' that everyone's talking about.\
*ducks*
The credit card company won't eat the loss - they'll mediate his dispute, and unless Dell can prove that he received the laptop, Dell will be out the one (or two) laptops they claim to have shipped and the OP will have his money refunded by his card company, who will in turn deduct it from Dell's account.
Given that it's an APO address, it will be hard to prove receipt. Better call the card issuer soon; chargeback rights vary by issuer, but typically expire 60-90 days after purchase.
5 a.m. to 1 a.m. - no foolin'.
Book 2 was tons of fun,
The Confusion - I have to wholeheartedly agree. I read it in one day. One very loooooong day.
My favorite line would have to be:
Jack Shaftoe was alive, had redeemed himself, and loved her. Best of all, he loved her from a tremendous distance, which made being loved by him ever so much less inconvenient.
Unlike every other Stephenson novel - this one has a real conclusion!
Not in the path I read it in, you insensitive clod!
I thought it started out slowly, picked up pace to un-put-down-ability, and turned into utter shit at the end.
It's all downhill after he eats the seaweed...
you do NOT get to do whatever you want whenever you want. Those rights were temporarily forfeited upon conviction.
Um, I've never been convicted and I still don't get to do whatever I want whenever I want. In fact, if I did that, I could go to jail!
How many hours do the Slashdot dupe checkers have under their belts?
I've always heard it as:
10% luck
20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure
50% pain
100% reason to remember the name
(Apologies to Mike Shinoda)
Now I just have to figure out how to evolve me some adamantium claws.
Neither would 'How to Jailbreak Your iPhone" be appropriate...
And could it make such a long journey with a coconut clutched in its claws?