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I admit that I am such a fool for deleting the most popular picture I had on Flickr. I still have the original picture, but all the comments are now gone.
Ah well, there’s no reason to beat myself about it.
Now I am waiting if the photos I took would be used for something exciting.
Yeah, this post is a little bit cryptic, but only time will reveal what it means.
A few weeks ago, I received the Windows Home Server HP MediaSmart Server EX475 and had the time to use it. It is now actually running in an office as a backup server.
My first impression of Windows Home Server was positive, until I actually get into the system a little bit more. Three things immediately came to mind:
Of course, there has been some murmur in Microsoft camp. According to Knowledge Base #946676, data corruption may occur, and Microsoft is taking their sweet time. They expect to release the bug-fix sometimes in June 2008.
I am now backing up the content of the Windows Home Server to another “server” in that office.
Windows Home Server still needs a lot of work.
CNET’s “Buzz Out Loud” should change its name to “Bitch Out Loud” and join Fox News for their “Fair and Balanced” news reports. The least CNET can do is to smack some sense into Molly Wood, who apparently does not know anything about technology at all. Wood does not have the knowledge on programing, hardware design, nor logic. The best thing she can do is ranting on things that she personally doesn’t like. She is a menace to electronics, be it a mobile phone or a computer. She complained that she had been having problems with electronics in general, and yet she had the guts to blame some manufacturers instead of herself. Wood has been contradicting herself on Buzz Out Loud, unfortunately it is too painful to listen to back catalogue of the podcast to point out which episodes Wood has been doing so.
Buzz Out Loud is off my subscription list. There’s no need to listen to such biased news reporting.
Buzz Out Loud, you can BITE BENDER’S SHINY METAL ASS! That’s you, Molly Wood.
As I have previously stated before that the Microsoft bidding for Yahoo! reminds me of an episode of Futurama titled “Future Stock“. I am such a Futurama geek. The (evil) Momcorp was going to buy out Planet Express, Inc. and the stockholders of both companies must approve the take-over.
Are there any relevance between this Futurama episode and Microsoft’s bid to take-over Yahoo!? (That’s a bit tricky, the exclamation point in Yahoo! and the question mark at the end of the sentence which is a question.)
Now, after a poor excuse for mentioning Futurama over and over again, let’s see what went on so far.
Microsoft’s cash on hand was estimated at 21 Billion Dollars, and they were offering Yahoo! 44.6 Billion Dollars in cash and stocks.
Yahoo! shares rose from $19.18 to $28.38 on February 1st after Microsoft announced their take-over bid. Meanwhile, Microsoft shares dropped from $32.60 to $30.45 on the same period.
Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft’s Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo!
Yahoo! Board did not explicitly reject Microsoft’s proposal.
Now let’s see here. Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo! shares at $31 per share. It was a sweet deal when Yahoo! shares was still at $19.18 per share. On February 1st, Microsoft’s offer is only 8.45% higher than the value of Yahoo! shares. There has been some whispers that Yahoo! is holding out for $40 per share to approve Microsoft’s take-over bid.
Yep, a major Yahoo! shareholder wants to see payday, at $40 per share. Who doesn’t like making profit on the stock market?
Hypothetically, if Yahoo! shareholders wanted this take-over to happen (like this one), there would still be a lot of hurdles for Microsoft to make it happen. Microsoft would have a tougher time to convince their own shareholders to approve this take-over. Yahoo! take-over seemed to be a bad financial move for Microsoft. Can Microsoft actually afford Yahoo! without breaking their bank? What are Microsoft’s shareholders saying regarding this Yahoo! take-over. SmartMoney says that “Microsoft Shareholders to Pay High Price for Yahoo“.
I am not a financial analyst, but I am a huge Futurama fan. Based on what I learned from Futurama’s “Future Stock”, shareholders from both company must approve the take-over. If that held true, then maybe Microsoft shareholder might be the one who would stop Steve Ballmer and his pals from driving Microsoft over the cliff, metaphorically.
Let’s see how this play out.
Disclaimer: I do not own a single stock because I don’t have the cash or the guts to gamble, but I make stupid stock predictions for other people.
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This pretty much sums up my experiences with Microsoft Word:
The way it works isn’t the problem
I read TFA, and these guys seem to be worried about the wrong thing. Word menus, etc, are easy enough to deal with. What makes it a god-forsaken piece of s**t are all the bugs. Documents are always getting corrupted, figures don’t do where you want and stay there, can’t save sometimes for no apparent reason, the entire thing just bombs out, etc. We had a “Platinum Support Ticket” or some similar nonsense open on Word for a few years. The upshot, direct from a Microsoft senior support line, was that if we wanted documents to not get corrupted, was to print it out on paper, make sure it was right, then use a scanner and save it as a TIFF. Thanks, that’s good advice.
What is so pathetic is that I have ordinary technical documents from the late 50’s and 60’s that are laid out better, have better graphics, and are still perfectly readable today. While at the same time, a Word document I saved last week either can’t be opened, or has all the symbols corrupted.
Brett
I have seen too many tech articles talking about how great the new Office 2007 is with is “Innovative” new ribbon interface. For gods sake, Microsoft fix Word from being the piece of crap that it is. If Microsoft could fix the program from mangling long documents, then maybe I’d be more excited about their lame new ribbons.
The Article where the comment was quoted from:
Slashdot.org – Goodbye Cruel Word
UPDATE:
iTunes Store is back up again. Scared me a little bit!
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Too many iPhone update requests…….
My iPhone is not working right now!
UPDATE: Steve Jobs has posted an open letter to iPhone early adopter. At least Apple is doing something right.
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
Some hours after Apple’s “The Beat Goes On” Special Event, I went to visit an Apple Store. Upon learning the $200 iPhone price drop, I was a little bit miffed at Apple. It’s only been 60-something days since the much hyped iPhone release, and now Apple in a way “screwing” the faithful early adopters. Prices drop all the time, but not by such drastic amounts in such a little time.
Upon entering the Apple Store, I was greeted by an Apple Store employee. He asked me if I needed some assistance. For some reasons, I blurted: “I am here to get my $200 back, for the iPhone.” Yeah, that blurb was responded by an uneasy “umm” and silence.
Anyway, I don’t think that it’s a good PR move for Apple to do such thing.
It’s time to call Apple Support and tell them how you feel.