Yahoo's market capitalization is only $14,904,080,000.00 as of today, so why would MS offer to buy Yahoo for 33% more than the market value of the company?
I'm not saying it's impossible, but I am saying it's stupid.
I think some people make the mistake of assuming that things done on the internet which would result in fines or punishment in the real world are somehow 'freedoms that need defending' on the web. I'm not one of those people.
OK, help me out. Can you think of any situations where a 16 year old boy would be fined or punished for dumping a 13 year old girl, even if he said she would be better off dead? I'm drawing a blank.
I'm obviously postulating a real 16 year old boy rather than a 40 year old woman since a real 40 year old woman would have a hard time convincing all but the stupidest 13 year old girl that she is actually a 16 year old boy.
"It is like our fleet of submarines. Simply the threat that we can deploy them keeps us out of wars."
Yeah, like when our fleet of subs kept us out of WWI and WWII and Korea and Vietnam and Gulf War I and Gulf War II and Afghanistan.
Doh! Crap, it looks like that bad analogy was doomed from the start. How did this get modified as +4 Insightful? There must be a lot of blind mods on today.
Considering Chrome has less than 1% adoption compared to IE's 70% or so adoption, and it has been out less than a year compared to IE decade or so, I would say having half the result of IE is positively abysmal.
Anyone notice lately that the No. 1 search result for everything on Google seems to be Wikipedia? Now I just go to Wikipedia and search and cut out the middle man. The links at the bottom of Wiki articles also seem to be more relevant (when they aren't dead) than Google top results.
I've even been experimenting with MSN search and getting better results lately. Is the Goog stumbling?
I have never seen such hysteria for a candidate in my life. With the type of overwrought messianic expectations that he faces, there is no way to go for Obama but down.
I take it you were born after the 1984 Reagan-Mondale election.
"There is nothing wrong with the current U.S. government - it is ignoring the constitution which is the problem."
And you don't consider the existence of a constitutional government with the ability to ignore the constitution that created it to be something fundamentally wrong with that system?
You can blame Desis for a lot (unhelpful telephone support people, the re-emergence of the musical, and intestinal gas all come to mind), but don't blame them for the erosion of privacy.
I bet life sucks a lot more for the kids blown to bits by these chair-jockeys. Somehow, I'm having a hard time getting all misty over a bunch of wankers sitting in air conditioned comfort who don't want to face the consequences of their actions.
The fundamental problem with IT workers is that they are stupid. IT workers have skills that the vast majority of people do not have and without which the multi trillion dollar world economy would grind to a halt and people would literally be without food and clothing because it could not be delivered and the skills required to produce these necessities at home no longer exist. Yet, these same people who control the keys to heaven are being outsourced.
The reason you have to have laws protecting employees is that employers otherwise have such a position of strength that no fair contracts are feasible.
Especially when you consider the irrational American hatred of unions, collective bargaining, and collective action in general.
Just wait until they win their suit..Apple will pay the court required payments.. then convert all those employee to an hourly status...at a base pay cut design to make it so that all the overtime is required to make it back to what they were getting in salary in the first place.
Better yet, just wait until Apple pays the Court ordered payments and then terminates them all and moves their jobs to India and China. There is such a thing as a Pyrrhic victory, and I suspect these fellows are going to win one.
There are IT people on the market, but you have to pay their value and you have to step down from unrealistic expectations.
That is true so far as it goes, but when China and India come fully online, "their value" will be a lot less than they think it is, or than it takes to eke out a living in California. In fact, I am guessing you are seeing some of this right now.
Besides, what is it about this COBOL system that is so mysterious that raises can apparently be implemented (they got to the pay rate they are at somehow) but decreases can't be? Can COBOL only add positive numbers?
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Yahoo's market capitalization is only $14,904,080,000.00 as of today, so why would MS offer to buy Yahoo for 33% more than the market value of the company?
I'm not saying it's impossible, but I am saying it's stupid.
I think some people make the mistake of assuming that things done on the internet which would result in fines or punishment in the real world are somehow 'freedoms that need defending' on the web. I'm not one of those people.
OK, help me out. Can you think of any situations where a 16 year old boy would be fined or punished for dumping a 13 year old girl, even if he said she would be better off dead? I'm drawing a blank.
I'm obviously postulating a real 16 year old boy rather than a 40 year old woman since a real 40 year old woman would have a hard time convincing all but the stupidest 13 year old girl that she is actually a 16 year old boy.
"It is like our fleet of submarines. Simply the threat that we can deploy them keeps us out of wars."
Yeah, like when our fleet of subs kept us out of WWI and WWII and Korea and Vietnam and Gulf War I and Gulf War II and Afghanistan.
Doh! Crap, it looks like that bad analogy was doomed from the start. How did this get modified as +4 Insightful? There must be a lot of blind mods on today.
Considering Chrome has less than 1% adoption compared to IE's 70% or so adoption, and it has been out less than a year compared to IE decade or so, I would say having half the result of IE is positively abysmal.
Anyone notice lately that the No. 1 search result for everything on Google seems to be Wikipedia? Now I just go to Wikipedia and search and cut out the middle man. The links at the bottom of Wiki articles also seem to be more relevant (when they aren't dead) than Google top results.
I've even been experimenting with MSN search and getting better results lately. Is the Goog stumbling?
or Duke Nukem 3D?
I make a comment about titties and I get modded -1 Flamebait. (See below.) She makes a comment about titties and she gets +5 Insightful.
You know what the difference is? She has titties and I don't. It's all about the titties.
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Tittie bars pay better, and are a doorway to lucrative pr0n careers. Why would women go into programming unless they are old or ugly?
He could use ZFS, if he doesn't like the AFS.
and we still keep bombing the shit out of wedding parties, so why go to the extra expense of the camera?
Are that many of the books you normally read "in color"?
Well yeah, duh, other than a few underground titles, all the comics I read are in color.
Adobe Buzzword is a lot more interesting than Google Apps, in my opinion.
I have never seen such hysteria for a candidate in my life. With the type of overwrought messianic expectations that he faces, there is no way to go for Obama but down.
I take it you were born after the 1984 Reagan-Mondale election.
...welcome our new black, arab, muslim, atheist, socialist, communist, not-born-in-america, terrorist, redistributionist-in-chief overlord.
LOL!
Seriously, from all of us in fake America to all of you in real America, thanks for the laughs...and the winks. Let's not forget the winks.
Go Obama!
"There is nothing wrong with the current U.S. government - it is ignoring the constitution which is the problem."
And you don't consider the existence of a constitutional government with the ability to ignore the constitution that created it to be something fundamentally wrong with that system?
the obvious misspellings. It's "Lloyds" not "Llyods".
You can blame Desis for a lot (unhelpful telephone support people, the re-emergence of the musical, and intestinal gas all come to mind), but don't blame them for the erosion of privacy.
I bet life sucks a lot more for the kids blown to bits by these chair-jockeys. Somehow, I'm having a hard time getting all misty over a bunch of wankers sitting in air conditioned comfort who don't want to face the consequences of their actions.
The fundamental problem with IT workers is that they are stupid. IT workers have skills that the vast majority of people do not have and without which the multi trillion dollar world economy would grind to a halt and people would literally be without food and clothing because it could not be delivered and the skills required to produce these necessities at home no longer exist. Yet, these same people who control the keys to heaven are being outsourced.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
The reason you have to have laws protecting employees is that employers otherwise have such a position of strength that no fair contracts are feasible.
Especially when you consider the irrational American hatred of unions, collective bargaining, and collective action in general.
Just wait until they win their suit..Apple will pay the court required payments.. then convert all those employee to an hourly status...at a base pay cut design to make it so that all the overtime is required to make it back to what they were getting in salary in the first place.
Better yet, just wait until Apple pays the Court ordered payments and then terminates them all and moves their jobs to India and China. There is such a thing as a Pyrrhic victory, and I suspect these fellows are going to win one.
I read the title and I got and image of Bill O'Reilly and Anderson Cooper mooning everybody. Now I need to go scrub my brain with lye soap.
I never noticed it before, but Chinese people really look silly in Western clothing. Of course, there are a billion of them, so MMV.
I'm only 34 and I know COBOL
Hey, wasn't Jesus crucified when he was 34? Not that I'm suggesting COBOL knowledge is akin to crucifixion or anything...
There are IT people on the market, but you have to pay their value and you have to step down from unrealistic expectations.
That is true so far as it goes, but when China and India come fully online, "their value" will be a lot less than they think it is, or than it takes to eke out a living in California. In fact, I am guessing you are seeing some of this right now.
Besides, what is it about this COBOL system that is so mysterious that raises can apparently be implemented (they got to the pay rate they are at somehow) but decreases can't be? Can COBOL only add positive numbers?