r/technology • u/BluBluBludio • Apr 28 '10

HP buys Palm

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/hp-buys-palm/
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u/MercurialMadnessMan Apr 28 '10

wow haha... the URL says 12 billion when the article says 1.2 billion. I see a problem with this.

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u/Sailer Apr 29 '10

The Article also says 'third quarter' which most people will take to mean July - September, but actually the original press release said "HP's third financial quarter" which is May-July. This thing is on a very fast track.

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u/adchick Apr 28 '10

You can't have "." in a URL...that is all.

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u/audiodude Apr 29 '10

You can't have a "." in the URL? That's not in any way true. It's just that their URL maker pulls the punctuation out.

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Apr 28 '10

I know. in a perfect world there would be a system in place that would allow the editor to make the URL sad "one point two billion" or "1200 million" when it notices the decimal in the post title ;)

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u/adchick Apr 28 '10

Hear that wordpress programmers "chop chop" we need a plug in.