Re:would eBay sell craigslist on eBay or craigslis
on
eBay Sues Craigslist
·
· Score: 4, Informative
A private company is just one that is not publicly traded. i.e. you or I cannot go out and buy shares in Craigslist but we can in eBay. eBay has invested money in a private venture, Craigslist, and any money that eBay makes from it's investment will impact the ROI to it's shareholders.
If you own part of a private company, you want to either just be a silent partner or you want you want to have controlling interest. Anything under 51% is not controlling interest. If you have less than 50% then you are at the whim of any decision you partners want to make, as long as that decision is within the laws and bylaws controlling your company.
Now if the Board (typically put in place by the majority owner, unless you have a close holding and cumulative voting) issues a bunch of shares without a previous non-dilution agreement, there will be a dilution of shares and potentially value. This is what eBay is complaining about.
From what I have read, the Board issued shares to another entity increasing the number of shares outstanding. Therefore, eBays original number of shares now come from a larger amount of shares, thus they have a lower percentage. As the value of eBays interest is based on the percentage of shares they basically have seen a forced decline in their investment. The Board has a legal fiduciary responsibility to all shareholders equally to give them value for their investment. eBay is suing as they believe that the Boards actions impacted the value of their shares, by reducing the percentage of the total value they are due.
Re:What about the mentalty of their customers ?
on
Sony to Buy Gracenote
·
· Score: 1
If you're that adamant. You might want to review your retirements funds and your company 401K.
The thing that disappoints me here is the video footage. This company needs way better marketing. All I see in the 'video' demonstrations is a guy in a halloween contraption moving things (and what's up with the bike helmet?). There's nothing that makes me feel that it's even powered up! The activities are capable by humans now. I mean were is the heavy lifting? I can only conclude that at this moment the concept is the advancements in dexterity, which can't be translated by video. In which case don't show me the video...I watched it and thought, that's it? Now I'm not a robotics expert, but I would like to get excited by this. It felt like being at a 10 second peep show looking at a fully clothed chick.
As one of those allowed to Admin his own machine I happy concur with the above and fully agree that if I screw it up I either fix it, or have to suffer the week old disk image and associated data loss from the automatic back up. Which is why I also have my own real-time shadow drive at my desktop (at my own cost). I'm also more likely to help the folks in my group with simple email server, printer drive or similar issues - why? Because as the director of the group (VP) I can often fix them and get them back on track faster than waiting for IT. This helps productivity and we achieve our daily goals faster - I'd rather see a time saving than sit around pretending that I'm that important that showing someone how to install a printer driver is below me. The big key to someone like me is that I understand my knowledge and limitations - I'm the first person to hear of a problem and know that IT should handle it. I'm not going to go in and stomp around the OS, again from a time perspective, it will end up being a waste of my time, IT's time and thus slow everyone down. I have a great relationship with my IT dept. and often get other things faster because I can help them out a little, but also know when to back off.
This asks an interesting question (in the states). So it's pretty much cut and dry that an email received/sent using a company server is company property. But what about email access through a company machine, or using company infrastructure? Is my google mail company property as I use my company laptop to access it? Would the parents iPhone email be company property because it was accessed and sent during company time using company equipment. I can only think is runs into the intellectual property laws that seem to typically assign IP to the company it it was 'discovered' using company equipment.
FTA - "Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi of Northwestern University in Chicago has shown how a few brain cells from a lamprey, a primitive eel-like vertebrate can be used to control a robot."
I would like to be the first to welcome our robot controlling, primitive eel-like vertebrate Overlords and welcome them to harness the power of our captive rat brain cells for virtual war.
Hold on. Do you really believe that in less than 24 hours, after one shot of thimerisol your daughter became autistic? I'm sorry, but I do think that you are forcing a reason into a vacuum of understanding.
I'm a father of a 2 year old (who has had all the vaccinations), I also spent 7 years working in the area of mercury control, including thimerisol. Hg is nasty in most forms, but typically it takes a period of long exposure and bioaccumulation for someone to be affected. There are the cases where Hg containing substances have a lethal effect, but in these cases the effect is so potent that they would impact every person that came into contact with it, and we know from the statistics that this is not the case with thimerisol.
Think about this statement, my grandmother was perfectly fine and then one day I bought her new alumnium pots, within a week (more than 24 hours) she was diagnosed with Altzhiemers...it must have been my fault!!
As an ex-player of the text based MUDs in the late 80's and early 90's this is probably one of the most insightful and honest comments I've recently read based around this type of gaming. The whole PvP aspect of arduous gaming grind is to completely trash the achievements of the player who has spent countless hours building up their 'character'. It is an excellent example of schadenfreude.
AOL is just the wimpy kid who gets picked last in gym. Sort of like the wart on my big toe that never goes away, but isn't big enough for me to really notice it.
Yahoo! Is more of the skanky whore who sleeps with everyone (except for the kid who gets picked last in gym). Everyone makes a pass at her, most get some attention, but you'll probably end up with something unwanted that you need to get meds to treat.
The funniest thing to me is that all of my Microsoft friends (and I have a few working in Redmond), not involved in Live are just chomping at the bit to get a 'decent' search engine attached to their product.
Well, the plane was the last bastion of refuge from my office or wife insisting that I can always be reached. I suppose I'm going to have to take up SCUBA diving now.
I totally would recommend a user going to Leopard! Using Leopard (laptop-work), Vista (desktop - Home), XP (Latop-Home) and Unbuntu (desktop-home) Leopard is by far the least stable, that includes Vista! Leopard crashes, or refuses to respond with at least one core program, at least once every couple of days, Vista seems to run fine for 2-3 weeks (and it's being used on a 4 year old Dell 8300). I have Mac fanboy friends who've rolled back to Tiger because of the Leopard poor stability. Now I'm not an IT person, I don't run fancy tests, I just use the computers to get things done in my life. I would be so happy if my work dumped Mac for either Windows or Unbuntu. Sorry for being a operating system neutral dissenting voice against Mac.
I have to say that the return of Starbuck and the 'song' lead me to hedge on the bet that there are two sets of cylons. The ones that attacked the colonies at the beginning and one set who have already found or are from God/Earth (the missing tribe) and want to bring all the 'children' home and together. Just my 2 cents
You know, all they have to do is shove a camera and mic in a stuffed pigeon. Stick it to a statue and have it poop once an hour. No one would know it was fake and then all this robotics and flying stuff wouldn't be needed.
We use Macs at work and the other day i had the option to get a new laptop. They gave me the offer of a Mac Air. I tried out the MacBook Pro for a week and then tried the Air. The Air was pushed back after 2 days and I went with the new macBook Pro The only thing I can say about the Air is that it was a concept computer, just like the concept cars at the motor shows. Possibly ahead of it's time, or parts of it are, but I can pretty much guarantee that it will not be picked up by the traveling business crowd very soon, except for those guys who like to always have the shiniest toys at the highest price. The only other market that I can think of are the really annoying Mac fanboy artist types who for some reason have enough money to buy it.
Yes, it's time to abolish software patents, but it's also time to stop all war. I don't like software patents, I don't like war. The companies owning software patents makes money, the global industrial-military complex makes money. Guess who's bigger with more political backing...good luck.
Personally I think guys are on the right track, even if they aren't there yet. http://www.asemblon.com/hydrnol. I've talked a little to a couple of them and they have a liquid organic carrier that can release H2 under reasonable conditions using a catalyst. The carrier can then be rehydrogenated for reuse. The carriers supposedly easily produced and the net energy is pretty good.
Slashdot Mirror
If you own part of a private company, you want to either just be a silent partner or you want you want to have controlling interest. Anything under 51% is not controlling interest. If you have less than 50% then you are at the whim of any decision you partners want to make, as long as that decision is within the laws and bylaws controlling your company.
Now if the Board (typically put in place by the majority owner, unless you have a close holding and cumulative voting) issues a bunch of shares without a previous non-dilution agreement, there will be a dilution of shares and potentially value. This is what eBay is complaining about.
From what I have read, the Board issued shares to another entity increasing the number of shares outstanding. Therefore, eBays original number of shares now come from a larger amount of shares, thus they have a lower percentage. As the value of eBays interest is based on the percentage of shares they basically have seen a forced decline in their investment. The Board has a legal fiduciary responsibility to all shareholders equally to give them value for their investment. eBay is suing as they believe that the Boards actions impacted the value of their shares, by reducing the percentage of the total value they are due.
If you're that adamant. You might want to review your retirements funds and your company 401K.
No but then you don't see them f*@king each other over for a goddamn percentage!
The thing that disappoints me here is the video footage. This company needs way better marketing. All I see in the 'video' demonstrations is a guy in a halloween contraption moving things (and what's up with the bike helmet?). There's nothing that makes me feel that it's even powered up! The activities are capable by humans now. I mean were is the heavy lifting? I can only conclude that at this moment the concept is the advancements in dexterity, which can't be translated by video. In which case don't show me the video...I watched it and thought, that's it? Now I'm not a robotics expert, but I would like to get excited by this. It felt like being at a 10 second peep show looking at a fully clothed chick.
As one of those allowed to Admin his own machine I happy concur with the above and fully agree that if I screw it up I either fix it, or have to suffer the week old disk image and associated data loss from the automatic back up. Which is why I also have my own real-time shadow drive at my desktop (at my own cost). I'm also more likely to help the folks in my group with simple email server, printer drive or similar issues - why? Because as the director of the group (VP) I can often fix them and get them back on track faster than waiting for IT. This helps productivity and we achieve our daily goals faster - I'd rather see a time saving than sit around pretending that I'm that important that showing someone how to install a printer driver is below me. The big key to someone like me is that I understand my knowledge and limitations - I'm the first person to hear of a problem and know that IT should handle it. I'm not going to go in and stomp around the OS, again from a time perspective, it will end up being a waste of my time, IT's time and thus slow everyone down. I have a great relationship with my IT dept. and often get other things faster because I can help them out a little, but also know when to back off.
This asks an interesting question (in the states). So it's pretty much cut and dry that an email received/sent using a company server is company property. But what about email access through a company machine, or using company infrastructure? Is my google mail company property as I use my company laptop to access it? Would the parents iPhone email be company property because it was accessed and sent during company time using company equipment. I can only think is runs into the intellectual property laws that seem to typically assign IP to the company it it was 'discovered' using company equipment.
I would like to be the first to welcome our robot controlling, primitive eel-like vertebrate Overlords and welcome them to harness the power of our captive rat brain cells for virtual war.
I'm a father of a 2 year old (who has had all the vaccinations), I also spent 7 years working in the area of mercury control, including thimerisol. Hg is nasty in most forms, but typically it takes a period of long exposure and bioaccumulation for someone to be affected. There are the cases where Hg containing substances have a lethal effect, but in these cases the effect is so potent that they would impact every person that came into contact with it, and we know from the statistics that this is not the case with thimerisol.
Think about this statement, my grandmother was perfectly fine and then one day I bought her new alumnium pots, within a week (more than 24 hours) she was diagnosed with Altzhiemers...it must have been my fault!!
As an ex-player of the text based MUDs in the late 80's and early 90's this is probably one of the most insightful and honest comments I've recently read based around this type of gaming. The whole PvP aspect of arduous gaming grind is to completely trash the achievements of the player who has spent countless hours building up their 'character'. It is an excellent example of schadenfreude.
AOL is just the wimpy kid who gets picked last in gym. Sort of like the wart on my big toe that never goes away, but isn't big enough for me to really notice it. Yahoo! Is more of the skanky whore who sleeps with everyone (except for the kid who gets picked last in gym). Everyone makes a pass at her, most get some attention, but you'll probably end up with something unwanted that you need to get meds to treat. The funniest thing to me is that all of my Microsoft friends (and I have a few working in Redmond), not involved in Live are just chomping at the bit to get a 'decent' search engine attached to their product.
Well, the plane was the last bastion of refuge from my office or wife insisting that I can always be reached. I suppose I'm going to have to take up SCUBA diving now.
Now the residents of /. can finally develop tiny sharks with tiny lasers on their heads.
I totally would recommend a user going to Leopard! Using Leopard (laptop-work), Vista (desktop - Home), XP (Latop-Home) and Unbuntu (desktop-home) Leopard is by far the least stable, that includes Vista! Leopard crashes, or refuses to respond with at least one core program, at least once every couple of days, Vista seems to run fine for 2-3 weeks (and it's being used on a 4 year old Dell 8300). I have Mac fanboy friends who've rolled back to Tiger because of the Leopard poor stability. Now I'm not an IT person, I don't run fancy tests, I just use the computers to get things done in my life. I would be so happy if my work dumped Mac for either Windows or Unbuntu. Sorry for being a operating system neutral dissenting voice against Mac.
I have to say that the return of Starbuck and the 'song' lead me to hedge on the bet that there are two sets of cylons. The ones that attacked the colonies at the beginning and one set who have already found or are from God/Earth (the missing tribe) and want to bring all the 'children' home and together. Just my 2 cents
You know, all they have to do is shove a camera and mic in a stuffed pigeon. Stick it to a statue and have it poop once an hour. No one would know it was fake and then all this robotics and flying stuff wouldn't be needed.
That's a short queue on /.
And after this we'll all turn into Incredible Hulks when we get very very angry.
We use Macs at work and the other day i had the option to get a new laptop. They gave me the offer of a Mac Air. I tried out the MacBook Pro for a week and then tried the Air. The Air was pushed back after 2 days and I went with the new macBook Pro The only thing I can say about the Air is that it was a concept computer, just like the concept cars at the motor shows. Possibly ahead of it's time, or parts of it are, but I can pretty much guarantee that it will not be picked up by the traveling business crowd very soon, except for those guys who like to always have the shiniest toys at the highest price. The only other market that I can think of are the really annoying Mac fanboy artist types who for some reason have enough money to buy it.
Move to Russia, I heard it's cheaper there. A few toys and some extra food seems to be around the purchase price.
And when the race reaches the bottom they'll find Sony there, lounging around in big piles of their failed products, sipping Mojitos.
Yes, it's time to abolish software patents, but it's also time to stop all war. I don't like software patents, I don't like war. The companies owning software patents makes money, the global industrial-military complex makes money. Guess who's bigger with more political backing...good luck.
Roombas with explosives...what more could you need? Now if they could blow things up and then vacuum the mess, we'd be onto something.
Wheeeee, I won $50 on a bet that this would happen within 30 days of the offer, because Yahoo would turn the offer down.
They could always download BOINC and have their pick
Personally I think guys are on the right track, even if they aren't there yet. http://www.asemblon.com/hydrnol. I've talked a little to a couple of them and they have a liquid organic carrier that can release H2 under reasonable conditions using a catalyst. The carrier can then be rehydrogenated for reuse. The carriers supposedly easily produced and the net energy is pretty good.