Palm's deal hurts investors

The today announced Palm's merging with HP severely hurts investors. It can also be interpreted as a plot against investors : the CEO posts a "bad" prospection ( its only a prospection!) on earnings, some analysts then lower rating and plump stock price down; then HP, who can well be part of the plot designer at the very beginning comes in and offer a low price to acquire the company. They just played such a dirty game to suck in investors' money. And that also disappoints people who loves the WebOS and believes its bright future. Leaving of the VP of R&D can be a reflection of conflicts and different voices inside the company. It can be the case that some big share-holders also participated in this dirty game. The SEC should give it a careful investigation and should not approve the merge to happen as soon as July.

1.2 billion is such a bargain for HP. If I was CEO of HP, I would be more than happy to spend another one billion to work around the leading group of Palm to "approve" this deal. How can investors' be protected? If this can be approved, then is there ANYTHING in US market worthing investing?

How can you believe that an operating system with leading technology in a fast growing intelligent handheld market worths ONLY 1.2 billion?

Last week the CEO of Palm, Jon Rubinstein, still said to public that he believed Palm, with its leading technology, could survive. Some investing institution also estimated the value of the company to be about $14 per-share, about 3 billion, given the OS platform and patents hold by the company.

Maybe the deal would let stronger support for further development of the WebOS but HP, given its history, had never done well in this and I don't think it is really interested in making innovative consumer products. WebOS had had good chances to be opened to non Palm made handhelds and even go open source, but now all vanishes. Android will rule -- iphone OS will be beaten just like Microsoft won apple before.

Last word, SEC should seriously investigate the case and make sure guys who actively approve the deal are really doing all legal which I seriously doubt it.

Guess what will happen next? HP will sell this bargain to companies like HTC or Lenovo who plans seriously in US and global market. It will sell for at least 4 billion but no current investors could not benefit from such a future deal of OUR ASSETS! The SEC should make sure that this kind of things never happen, e.g., forbid HP to sell what it gets from this deal for, say , 5 years.

Why sue Goldman Sachs? SEC should sue Palm!

整理屋子及其他

收拾屋子是我经典的整理心情的方法。在心情和脑子both比较凌乱的时候证明比较有效，而且其效果正比于收拾前屋子的凌乱程度。我的屋子现在已经非常凌乱以至于我完全不指望能从一堆东西中间“找”出一件来，要一件东西完全要靠直觉来“摸”，在预定位置能够摸到或者放弃。所以明明节，正好也是复活节，就是打扫和整理屋子的好机会。整理屋子会有一个副作用就是整完以后almost for sure会有一些东西再也找不到了。

其实整理屋子这个事情非常的无聊，因为绝少有机会要扔掉很多东西，整理的时机也往往不是有新的家具用品要放进来的时候。那么，整理屋子的过程无非是将这一样东西搬到另一个地方去或者把一些东西放在一起另一些东西分开摆放。不过既然database research 本身也有很大一部分的工作是做这个所以嗯就这样好了。

其他的部分现在说因为和整理屋子有相似的无聊度。为一个朋友租房子交一下定金。因为四月十六号才能拿到钥匙所以那个房东要求先给他一个支票，写明四月十六日之前无效。这非常难以理解，因为交换了两个毫无价值的纸片(支票和收条)两个人就迅速达成了无限满足的信任感...

回到整理屋子上，整个过程历时两个小时有余，弄完以后屋子空敞很多，Lee同学留下的一个bookshelf得到了利用(我自己那个更大的在老大那里难以运来不提) 照片如图所示。 抹布在里面出现是偶然中的必然。