1,400 Yahooligans perish as Yang raids needle cabinet Yahoo! is firing a bunch of people to cut $400 million from its budget. That sucks for the people who work there, but the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who hustled Yahoo! out of more than $2.5 billion in the last 4 years probably aren't terribly concerned. In the typical American fashion, Yahoo! bought a bunch of shit …
They bought up Flickr, and killed their own Yahoo! Photos service.
They bought up Konfabulator, and changed its name to the lame Yahoo! Widgets.
Geeze, they bought up so much trash I'm surprised they have any money left. Looks like Web 2.0 is turning into Dotcom 2.0: Taking down those who didn't go down with Dotcom 1.0!!!
The cock-smoker is right about the proper business model: "get acquired and become somebody else's problem". That is the recipe.
Unfortunately Yahoo missed the exit. They had their last opportunity when Ballmer was trying to buy them. Now the're on the road to nowhere and running out of gas.
So Yahoo shares fall drastically, they lay off staff and I imagine face loosing the litigation regarding shareholder value by not taking the money and running, which leaves spot 2 (behind Google) available for the taking. Nice work for not spending 40 billion. Perhaps Microsoft should try to buy Google for not 100 billion and see if they can get to spot 1.
Nope, an old reader, as in dinosaur. I can spell words like 'lose' and I can do grammar. I can even say 'Oh Bother' when I break something and manage to avoid what my parents called 'effing and blinding' in favour of more witty and adventurous ways of chatting in pubs. Yes I remember Old Reg too and have always liked the refreshing slangy straight-to-the-point way he/she/they do reports. And I think it's got better over the years, probably partly to do with the instant feedback that the comments provide.
Dear Reg, please send me my free subscription as a thank-you for my refined niceness.
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Can I suggest that you learn to appreciate difference? Ted's articles are amusing and sometimes interesting. The swearing helps boost the amusement and there are no obvious downsides, IMHO.
"more witty and adventurous ways of chatting", an example of which is making a lame joke about a free subscription to an already free site? That's a bit arrogant, methinks.
"I can do grammar" isn't that an oxymoron? Or perhaps it's just a double standard.
"refined niceness" or obsequious simpering? The jury's out.
You would have thought that the maximum number of times that someone of delicate sensibilities or a nervous disposition could be offended by a TD article would be one. But given the amount of whining that follows each one, that appears not to be the case. To save these poor unfortunates from imprudent clicking perhaps El Reg needs a new tag to indicate:
Not Suitable For Those Of A Nervous Disposition, With Delicate Sensibilities Or Who Consider Themselves Intellectually Superior To A Bit Of Harmless Swearing
But NSFTOANDWDSOWCTISTABOHS is not very catchy.
Coming up with a better one could be a new El Reg competition. If so, my entry is:
NSFPW
where Prissy W*nkers are the PW in question.
You are making a very common mistake. Fuckton and fuck-ton do not have the same value. A fuck-ton is only 1/8 of a Fuckton.
So your Russian "20 Fuckton warhead" would actually be a 160 fuck-ton warhead.
1 Fuckton = 8 fuck-ton
1 fuck-ton = 0.90718474 fuck-tonne
1 Fucktonne = 8 fuck-tonne
1 fuck-tonne = 1.10231131 fuck-ton
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