I never knew about Bodhi and probably will never know about it. Could that be the cause of its demise? Was Bodhi very intrusive, invading into peoples privacy?

And not to mention "Continuator" that composes & plays Jazz. And also, the "Painting Fool", that paints beautiful art.

Politicians and entertainers are walking and talking advertisements of themselves. Unfortunately scientists and engineers are not, It's their works that are influential. The ranking algorithm will reveal them if the pages of their works are ranked instead.

If that's the amount of effort he would have to go through to know Charles Linneaus, then I bet Charles Linneaus was not influential.

The ranking is not about the people but their current version of the wikipedia page. And what is the realm of influence? Other pages of wikipedia.

Ghenghis at 84 while Adolf is at 5? And where are Asterix and Obelix? Clearly the list is flawed.

The list just shows how poorly the algorithm has been constructed. Politicians and entertainers are walking and talking advertisements of themselves. Unfortunately scientists and engineers are not, It's their works that are influential. The ranking algorithm will reveal them if the pages of their works are ranked instead. There are numerous other biases in this kind of an algorithm.

Politicians and entertainers are walking and talking advertisements of themselves. Unfortunately scientists and engineers are not, It's their works. The ranking algorithm will reveal them if the pages of their works are ranked.

Jesus also becomes influential by the amount of discredit and disbelief his identity gets. And not to mention the sheer amount of advert dollars spent. Adolf gets to the top of the list too.

Indian?! Is that a language? Spoken where?

But the question is, do they deserve that kind of salaries for people who are unable to run the company into profitability? Plus the $10M in stock options.

They have got $133M in cash and equivalents. And a $1.5B in debt. Basically the company is chewing down its own rear. KKR, Silverlake, Tech Crossover have 68.5% stake in the company. The CxO's are having a good time. $12M per year for CxO's is a great deal for a bunch of morons. So the IPO is a nice way to try to extend the party the morons are enjoying before they float their resumes and land at another party.

You cannot claim your own assets as goodwill. Only acquired assets can be claimed as goodwill, and not more than the amount the assets fall short than the purchase price. Which means, they bought into some pretty lousy deal in the past. And they are amortizing their past sins.

I find it difficult to read tech books on a 7'' screen. I prefer a 10'' screen for reading tech books. In fact I find 10'' inch suitable for novels too. So I prefer a 10'' kindle. I wish it could open many more formats comfortably, like pdf's, djvu's, chm's etc. apart from epub and mobi. Plus note-taking and highlighting would make it perfect. It doesn't exist. So I didn't bother to own a kindle.

I find it difficult to read tech books on 7'' screen. I prefer a 10'' screen for reading tech books. In fact I find 10'' inch suitable for novels too. So I prefer a 10'' kindle. I wish it could open many more formats comfortably, like pdf's, djvu's, chm's etc. apart from epub and mobi. Plus note taking and highlighting would make it perfect.