You cannot buy yourself a comeback, unless you own a sports team. Just ask the board of HP. They have been trying to bail out the water of the SS HP for a long time for a comeback. How has the Compaq purchase made HP stronger? Or the EDS? Or Autonomy? The list is long in the tear along the bow of ship.

But back to Yahoo. Your ship is still listing.

If Yahoo wanted to more tightly integrate with Tumblr, then why a complete buyout? It makes far more sense to partner with Tumblr at a lower cost. If Yahoo plans to bet the farm on Tumblr add to the legal agreement that in the event Tumblr goes under, that Yahoo retains the rights to the technology. Unless Tumblr already has that in place with another entity, which means an out and out buyout is required. They could have had a partnership where by if Tumblr falls below a market value, then Yahoo has first buy out option. Which circles back that Yahoo doesn't feel that it can partner with Tumblr in fear of lost assets and sunk costs, because there is a real potential of the Tumblr not succeeding in the future. This is not a case to flop one billion dollars on the table.

I understand the model Yahoo is fielding with Tumblr, many companies do this. But they mostly do this in areas where the "mother ship" has no direct experience in that market. It's best to keep the business models separate. But for Yahoo who is in the same market space as Tumblr to have a hands off approach is a testament that Yahoo's executives have no idea how to incorporate technology. Which gets back to this is an overpaid partnership.

Financially it's a high risk low return purchase. The technology behind Tumblr is just surface college undergrad level stuff. Micro-blog + Media is all they get. Might as well just revamp Flickr services for a 25% of the cost. So I'm left with thinking that the billion dollars cash on the barrel is to maybe purchase Tumblr's community of users. This is a huge blind gamble, that isn't close enough to pay off in a really really long time. If Yahoo thinks that the age of Tumblr's user base will continue to grow up using Tumblr is a sick business mentality. And the hope of Tumblr users will become Yahoo users is even more convoluted grasps at dreams in vapor.

The problem is, and with many companies, is the CEO is not a leader, has no real vision, and defiantly not an innovator. They are like captains of oil tankers set adrift on the ocean. Nothing all that exciting and number one goal is to stay afloat.

I think the stake holders need to think about that simple question. The last thing we need is some sentient silicon running around like a pestilent child lobbing nukes between hemispheres for fun.

A bit of common sense would ask "was there a sign posted next to Mayan pyramid?" I'm not sure about most of the world, but where I live there are historical markers all over the place. Even if it's to inform you where an old church use to stand or where someone was born in the wilderness.

Archaeologists can cry fowl all they want and file civil or criminal charges all they want. But did any of them even think to put a marker next to the mound of gravel and limestone saying this was a historical landmark?

It would be an interesting sight to see morning traffic on the interstates and highways, if we all went back to the horse and mule.

Please append "Bad" to the start of your sentence and sprinkle in "backed by poor executive directives." There are some really great UX/UI engineers out there. Problem is there are equally as many bad UX/UI engineers as it's a soft IT position. Similar to that of graphic designers.

And why was he placed in a hand basket?

I find it refreshing and a bit humorous that communication from the Vatican is a boolean value represented as white or black smoke from a chimney. I wish other technology companies would follow suit during board and department meetings.

employee: Oh no black smoke is coming from the offices again, I guess they didn't find the CEO.
manager: Actually I think they are burning the financial records.

Drilling holes isn't going to find you anything. Just sake down a thumper and wait for the sandworm to come. They always come.

How is not important as much as can. If this is a stopgap measure to allow me to run Linux on secure boot systems, I'm okay with that until a different viable solution comes along.

Their budget was limited.

The same sentiment is echoed multiple times in the article. So this really isn't about how a development team choose DynamoDB over MongoDB. But rather the financial limitations of the client mandated the development team to use DynamoDB. In fact the article is more in favor for using MongoDB over DynamoDB, but the client's requirements forced their hands into using an alternative that was not as favorable for development.

1) With mobile apps I can see cached data when not connected to the internet. 2) Mobile apps can take advantage of specific mobile platform and hardware features. 3) Mobile apps are generally designed with a better UX than their web counter parts. I'm not alone in this thinking. Trending surveys of mobile users say as much.

While the virtues of mobile web is alluring to content providers, I prefer dedicated mobile apps over opening a mobile web page.
Might I suggest Slashdot start out making a simple Apple and Android application. Until such time I will continue to use my Reddit mobile application when getting my news that matters.

No doubt the USS Enterprise would strip that hulking mass down piece by piece. An Imperial Star Destroyer couldn't pick off a single smuggler. The USS Enterprise is nimble, fast, has shields, a wide array of offensive armaments, and can actually hit what they are shooting at. A couple of photon torpedoes to the helm and that's all that's needed. All an Imperial Star Destroyer can do is widely shoot in the hopes of hitting something nearby.

Now if you talk about boarding parties, the USS Enterprise would be sunk if boarded by Storm Troopers. They don't care about doors; they shoot through them.