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Quote: Originally Posted by macinthe408 To be released in 12 days: Microsoft Surface commercial showing a doctor in need of PowerPoint on his iPad, throwing it in a can, then grabbing a Surface to show patient, "10 Things You Need To D…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich What kind of idiot can't take a sharp photo these days? Especially when taking a screen shot from the phone is trivially easy.
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That sounds like a very convincing quote until one reads the linked article and notices that you conveniently left out the context of that quote: "It’s not hard to see where inflation fears were coming from. In its efforts to prop up the economy, t…
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Why even take my word for it when we can just take it straight from Krugman's mouth: The Fed is, however, creating a new liability: the monetary base it creates to buy these bonds. In effect, it’s printing $1 trillion of money, and using tho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by trumptman Paul Krugman is a pretty well known and specific example. So then provide specific examples of what he says. I don't take your word for it. The only thing I've ever seen him say is that it …
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Quote: Originally Posted by dreyfus2 Well, this is a manual transaction by the programmer. No idea what the Lava Xolo's market share is (I have honestly never seen one), and how many developers did actually re-compile their apps…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta First, it's not technically a virtual machine if it's running a different architecture - it's an emulator. Sure it is. The point of a virtual machine is that it abstracts away the hardware so…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dreyfus2 Surprise as in: - There are some Android apps (mainly games and e.g. VM clients) using the NDK, they won't run on x86 Already addressed that point in the link I provided from A…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MotivDev There is a version of Android that runs on X86 platform that Intel and Google have been working on. I don't know what kind of bastardized version it is, but then, does it really matter? This just co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 This is probably another Windows based tablet, Samsung has made them before, Samsung even hinted at it with their upcoming 20th June announcement. No it's not. If it was a Windows-based ta…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Entropys Considering all the QE your fed has been doing, that the yen us falling faster than the USD is something scary for the average Japanese to consider. The USD has been gaining strength against many…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xuemingshen Android app is basically java app, where does this application "compiling" issue come from? From when the app uses the NDK which is quite common for things like games.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil So what does this mean? Incompatibility with everything made before it? No, most apps, sans games, are Dalvik apps which will have no problem running on x86 Android. The issue is only for …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheUnfetteredMind Exactly what I was thinking. Are there currently x86/x86_64 builds of Android? If not, I assume it's not a huge deal to do it, but then you have to get all the developers to recompile thei…
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To further add, Microsoft offered a 62% premium to Yahoo! to purchase it back in 2008 and its offer failed. According to your logic it should have been no problem for them to get shareholder approval, right?
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Quote: Originally Posted by PaulMJohnson Why are you so convinced institutional owners aren't interested in selling stock at a 100% markup? Because if simply offering a large premium to buy the company guaranteed success, M…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone It says a lot more than what you wrote and that which you left out was the basis of my point. I think you forgot that I completely I agreed with your original comment in that buying Nuance …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Go read this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeover#Hostile_takeovers Hostile takeovers are almost always possible depending on how much money you want to spend to get it done. Gr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone You are describing a tender offer which not really a hostile takeover that I referred to in my original comment. Who knows if Nuance would accept a tender offer but if they would not then the suitor …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Ok explain how it's done. The company tenders an offer to purchase all outstanding shares. There is then a vote amongst shareholders to either accept or reject the offer. If a majority agrees th…