Poll
Smartest Corporate Acquisition
Apple/Beats ($3B)
0 votes (0%)
Google/Twitch ($1B)
4 votes (25%)
Yahoo/Flurry ($300M)
0 votes (0%)
Lenovo/IBM Server business ($2.3B)
11 votes (69%)
Facebook/WhatsApp ($19B)
1 vote (6%)
AOL/TechCrunch, Thing Labs, 5Min ($100M)
0 votes (0%)
11 comments
16 votes
Reply 11 comments

Poll broken in Konqueror? (Score: 1)

by mth@pipedot.org on 2014-08-18 11:06 (#3YS)

How do I vote? There is nothing clickable in my browser, which is Konqueror rendering using WebKit.

Re: Poll broken in Konqueror? (Score: 1)

by mth@pipedot.org on 2014-08-18 11:08 (#3YT)

Ah, clicking the "N votes" link allows you to vote. That's not very obvious.

Re: Poll broken in Konqueror? (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-18 13:32 (#3YW)

Yay, glad to see another konqueror user. I still use that browser for simple stuff (FreeBSD's manual pages, for example). It gives me trouble with stuff that requires much javascript or other complications.

Re: Poll broken in Konqueror? (Score: 2, Informative)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-08-19 03:01 (#3Z7)

When you see the poll on the side bar of the front page, the poll box will automatically toggle between the vote page and the results/comment page depending on if you've voted already.
Unfortunately, the Monday Poll article had the link set to go directly to the results/comment page.

I changed the link in the article to point to the vote page instead.

Where is the cowboyneal option? (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-18 13:38 (#3YX)

I can't vote for any of these...

Re: Where is the cowboyneal option? (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-18 14:44 (#3YY)

Good point: something like "Cowboyneal/crack cocaine ($3M)" might be the right level of sense of humor.

Re: Where is the cowboyneal option? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-18 22:32 (#3Z3)

That would be perfect :-)

No Dice (Score: 2)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-08-18 23:04 (#3Z4)

You forgot Dice buying Slashdot, SourceForge, and FreeCode/FreshMeat for only $20M.

Seems almost insignificant with all the recent acquisitions being in the Billions.

Re: No Dice (Score: 2, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-19 11:00 (#3Z9)

Thought about it, but it seemed so irrelevant compared to the others - not just in its dollar amount, but in what the purchase really entailed. Other purchases/acquisitions seemed to bring in big, new areas to existing corporations. Dice bought itself a dying web forum, a dying collaboration platform, and a now closed-and-out-of-date software information site. A fool and its money are soon parted, I suppose.

Sad new paradigm (Score: 2, Insightful)

by spacebar@pipedot.org on 2014-08-19 22:05 (#3ZF)

Feels like innovation has been replaced with acquisition. Things have a way of slowing down when all the little guys become parts of the big guys.