Wow that proves Slashdot is definitely not a place for savvy investing tips. Following that logic, I think people would have missed out on the massive gains produced by the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Dell, HP, Cisco, etc.
Perhaps before bashing it, you should read the prospectus and give us your credentials. Without either of those, you just sound like someone who bought a very expensive plasma TV. For those that would like to give this a chance, here is the prospectus: http://arasor.lvwebdev.com/pdfs/Arasor_Prospectus2 006-1.pdf
Oh, and the IPO period is OVER for new registration, and has been for a week, which means that it was so at the time of this announcement. Here's the excerpt from their prospectus:
Opening Date: 4 September 2006
Closing Date: 5pm (CST) 3 October 2006
Despatch of Statements of Shareholding: 13 October 2006
Quotation of Shares on ASX expected to commence 19 October 2006
So, this is NOT to pump the IPO. It might be to interest more people in buying the $1.50 AUS target price stock on the 18th(U.S.)/19th(AUS), but to be honest, even at $1.50 AUS, that's a cheap stock, and a lot of people might want to get in on it just for fun and to see where it goes.
You also might want to look at the names involved in this company, as there are board members such as Simon Cao (as in the author of 'Cao's Law', the optical corollary of Moore's Law in electronics, which states that WDM will spread more and more finer and finer channels of light, each using less and less power, across an optical fibre.) Parviz Tayebati is also in on it, who was in the CoreTek, Inc. subsidiary of Nortel Networks.
Refurbished for the win. Much more reasonable price, same warranty. I'm going the refurb way as soon as I unload my Hypersonic Aviator EX7 (which, by the way, is about as mobile as a Commodore 64 floppy drive, and could not be worse on battery usage unless the battery was removed... see I'm trading up for something both MOBILE AND POWERFUL)
Google's just becoming more and more like every other publicly traded company.
Oh you mean they want to make money using strategic partnerships? And that's wrong why? I own the stock, and I'm happy to see them have the cash pouring in, and making alliances that will ensure that happens for a long, long time.
I love this new Google is evil movement, it's really entertaining. The best part is that most of it sounds very much like: 1) jealously; 2) why didn't I think of that; 3) hate them because now they're big; 4) easy to attack the leader; 5) they're not making me money, so I don't like them; 6) OMG the corporate world forces you to run things differently than your garage operation! what?!/end defense
OMG! I know some fairly wealthy Democrats who are definitely big-money-friendly. C'mon now, what's with the attack? Tell ya what, no matter what my political view, I'd love some big-money!
The problem as I see it has remained the same with M$. It's the "Quick! Release the bloatware to the masses!" idea. But, we forget, almost every day, that the TYPICAL user NEEDS the bloat, because they know nothing else, and many don't care to. Many out there love MS Movie Maker, and would do something involuntary in their pants if a complex program like Adobe Premiere 2.0 Pro loaded.
So, they have their place. It doesn't have to be your place, but for many, it's the only safely blanket they have, and, as far as a learning curve for novice/beginners, MS does well, I think, and does have some tailoring for experts, no doubt. Having said that, I find MSN useless, MSN live useless, and M$ should do something to innovate, or they will risk losing ground to innovative companies that have no problem giving the same functionality for far less or free.
Everyone always says M$ needs to get their ass sued. Hey! You! If you wrote your own OS, and your own browser, and had your own search engine, wouldn't it make sense to have them all work together? The point is to be profitable. I SURE AS HELL would promote my own cross-product. Forcing them to default to another search engine or browser is really authoritarian, which is much more brutal than BOTH the liberal or conservative standpoints.
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. The only qualification is that some gamers LOVE video games but know absolutely ZERO about hardware builds. So, for them, there needs to be something.
It has a place in the market, most of US just may not be IN it.
I've had only bad experiences with Alienware. A lot of people talk about Alienware like it's the primo computer maker in its market. I just don't see it.
I do see it, however, from VoodooPC, and maybe even Hypersonic (have one of their Aviator laptops).
I actually hold Dell in higher regard than Alienware, and let's face it, Dell buying Alienware wasn't to acquire some enormous trade secret or anything, it was for the right to mass produce them even more and have the ability to slap that alien face on their high-end systems, which I'm sure will carry a premium price that even the Gen2 can't touch...
"...format and reload as their way tp fix any problem the computer has."
I won't try to defend Geek Squad. However, I will defend the format and reload scenario. If you look at it, in some situations, format and reload is generally QUICKER than spending hours on a problem. I grant that it's only applicable in situations that: A) I've never seen; and B) I don't have the interest to learn to fix.
It's the "guaranteed done in 2 hours" vs. "dig around for an hour or so, troubleshoot, diagnose, find fixes, pick a suitable fix, apply fix, test, etc., etc."
I just don't have the time, for example, to spend a long time trying to extract a piece of spyware that loads before the system kernel when I can just reload the system quicker... and have a fresh install that hasn't been filled with crap yet.
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Well that's one way to rid themselves of the ugly bankruptcy numbers... good luck with that.
Perhaps before bashing it, you should read the prospectus and give us your credentials. Without either of those, you just sound like someone who bought a very expensive plasma TV. For those that would like to give this a chance, here is the prospectus: http://arasor.lvwebdev.com/pdfs/Arasor_Prospectus
Oh, and the IPO period is OVER for new registration, and has been for a week, which means that it was so at the time of this announcement. Here's the excerpt from their prospectus:So, this is NOT to pump the IPO. It might be to interest more people in buying the $1.50 AUS target price stock on the 18th(U.S.)/19th(AUS), but to be honest, even at $1.50 AUS, that's a cheap stock, and a lot of people might want to get in on it just for fun and to see where it goes.
You also might want to look at the names involved in this company, as there are board members such as Simon Cao (as in the author of 'Cao's Law', the optical corollary of Moore's Law in electronics, which states that WDM will spread more and more finer and finer channels of light, each using less and less power, across an optical fibre.) Parviz Tayebati is also in on it, who was in the CoreTek, Inc. subsidiary of Nortel Networks.
In summary, read the prospectus.
Refurbished for the win. Much more reasonable price, same warranty. I'm going the refurb way as soon as I unload my Hypersonic Aviator EX7 (which, by the way, is about as mobile as a Commodore 64 floppy drive, and could not be worse on battery usage unless the battery was removed... see I'm trading up for something both MOBILE AND POWERFUL)
Google's just becoming more and more like every other publicly traded company.
/end defense
Oh you mean they want to make money using strategic partnerships? And that's wrong why? I own the stock, and I'm happy to see them have the cash pouring in, and making alliances that will ensure that happens for a long, long time.
I love this new Google is evil movement, it's really entertaining. The best part is that most of it sounds very much like: 1) jealously; 2) why didn't I think of that; 3) hate them because now they're big; 4) easy to attack the leader; 5) they're not making me money, so I don't like them; 6) OMG the corporate world forces you to run things differently than your garage operation! what?!
"big-money-friendly Republicans"
OMG! I know some fairly wealthy Democrats who are definitely big-money-friendly. C'mon now, what's with the attack? Tell ya what, no matter what my political view, I'd love some big-money!
The problem as I see it has remained the same with M$. It's the "Quick! Release the bloatware to the masses!" idea. But, we forget, almost every day, that the TYPICAL user NEEDS the bloat, because they know nothing else, and many don't care to. Many out there love MS Movie Maker, and would do something involuntary in their pants if a complex program like Adobe Premiere 2.0 Pro loaded.
So, they have their place. It doesn't have to be your place, but for many, it's the only safely blanket they have, and, as far as a learning curve for novice/beginners, MS does well, I think, and does have some tailoring for experts, no doubt. Having said that, I find MSN useless, MSN live useless, and M$ should do something to innovate, or they will risk losing ground to innovative companies that have no problem giving the same functionality for far less or free.
Everyone always says M$ needs to get their ass sued. Hey! You! If you wrote your own OS, and your own browser, and had your own search engine, wouldn't it make sense to have them all work together? The point is to be profitable. I SURE AS HELL would promote my own cross-product. Forcing them to default to another search engine or browser is really authoritarian, which is much more brutal than BOTH the liberal or conservative standpoints.
Aha! " ... I could play for 20 minutes... and get back to work.",/i>
Yes this is the opposite of World of Warcraft.
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. The only qualification is that some gamers LOVE video games but know absolutely ZERO about hardware builds. So, for them, there needs to be something. It has a place in the market, most of US just may not be IN it.
I've had only bad experiences with Alienware. A lot of people talk about Alienware like it's the primo computer maker in its market. I just don't see it. I do see it, however, from VoodooPC, and maybe even Hypersonic (have one of their Aviator laptops). I actually hold Dell in higher regard than Alienware, and let's face it, Dell buying Alienware wasn't to acquire some enormous trade secret or anything, it was for the right to mass produce them even more and have the ability to slap that alien face on their high-end systems, which I'm sure will carry a premium price that even the Gen2 can't touch...
"...format and reload as their way tp fix any problem the computer has." I won't try to defend Geek Squad. However, I will defend the format and reload scenario. If you look at it, in some situations, format and reload is generally QUICKER than spending hours on a problem. I grant that it's only applicable in situations that: A) I've never seen; and B) I don't have the interest to learn to fix. It's the "guaranteed done in 2 hours" vs. "dig around for an hour or so, troubleshoot, diagnose, find fixes, pick a suitable fix, apply fix, test, etc., etc." I just don't have the time, for example, to spend a long time trying to extract a piece of spyware that loads before the system kernel when I can just reload the system quicker... and have a fresh install that hasn't been filled with crap yet.