Who says they shorted it? AAPL has been steadily going up for a long time. The trend is your friend with that one. Seems like a better buy opportunity than sell. Spread the rumor, wait for dip, buy the hell out of AAPL.
The campaigns had no idea who made it--not the Obama campaign, not the Clinton campaign, nor any other campaign. I made the ad on a Sunday afternoon in my apartment using my personal equipment (a Mac and some software), uploaded it to YouTube, and sent links around to blogs.
"Templates" such as a call from overseas followed by a flurry of domestic calls are used to identify leads, which are forwarded to the FBI for investigation.
So recently my uncle died. He lived in Thailand. My mom (his sister) received a call from overseas, then obviously called every relative here in the U.S. We even called travel agents and airlines trying to arrange last minute travel. So by the FBI's reasoning, we should be investigated for this "suspicious" activity. There are so many more legitimate reasons to receive an international call, then make several domestic calls, than there are suspicious ones. What a waste of resources.
i hate to say it, but this is good for the consumer. when was the last time any of you tried to get good tickets for a REALLY high-demand show? it is impossible. I recently tried to get tickets for the Tool concert. At 10am when tickets went on sale, I was on 3 different computers, with an IE and Firefox open on each. At 9:59 I was hitting refresh on every screen. Guess what? I didn't get through once- not even for crappy seats. I ended up paying a broker $300 each for tickets.
But here's the most annoying part: at 9am- long before tickets went on sale to the public, there were at least 30 tickets for sale on ebay. They were all brokers, and the all said "seats will be revealed at 10am." The brokers are not working hard for their $.
This has happened to me for several other high-demand events- White Sox playoffs, Seinfeld stand-up. I either get no tickets, or nose-bleed seats, yet every broker in town has tons of front-and-center seats. I always end up paying the brokers. At least with the auction system I still over-pay, but it will be some sort of "fair market" price- and the brokers can't scam the auction by running up the price because they don't make a dime.
Personally I think brokers are total scam artists, and as much as I don't like ticketmaster, I still prefer to remove the brokers.
I'm not exactly sure how digg works, but about 5 minutes ago i noticed a link to this/. story on digg.com's front page. now it is nowhere to be found. can a story be demoted from digg's front page? is there somewhere where i can see which stories have been demoted? it appears to me that digg intentionally removed the story.
I copied the following directly from this website which has an interesting analysis of tool's lateralus album. There's a Fibonacci in Maynard's lyrics, specifically the syllables:
black [1]
then [1]
white are [2]
all I see [3]
in my infancy [5]
red and yellow then came to be [8]
reaching out to me [5]
lets me see [3]
there is [2]
so [1]
much [1]
more and [2]
beckons me [3]
to look through to these [5]
infinite possibilities [8]
as below so above and beyond I imagine [13]
drawn outside the lines of reason [8]
push the envelope [5]
watch it bend [3]
I suppose it's not actually a true Fibonacci, since it does reverse itself.
this reminds me of something i saw when i used to work in corporate america. once before a company wide meeting, a friend/colleague handed me a sheet of paper with a grid of boxes on it- like a bingo board, but each box had a 'buzzword' in it- synergy, proactive, win-win, B2B, e-commerce, e-solutions, etc., etc. the goal was to mark off a word every time you heard it in a meeting. if you crossed off all the words in one row, column, or diagonally, you stand up and yell "BULLSHIT!". freakin' hilarious.
I would rather be stuck in stereo with two very high quality speakers, than surround sound with 7 crappy ones.
that is exactly what i have and most people who come over (except for the audiophile who helped me pick out and set up my equipment) say that dvd's and music sound better on my system than anywhere else they've been. multiple people have said that dvd's sound like the theatre (even though they are listening in stereo, not surround!), and that they would rather watch a movie at my place any day.
i have 2 B&W floor speakers, B&W sub, rotel preamp/processor, and rotel amplifier. total cost was just over $5,000 for everything (that's not including the 50 inch samsung dlp). trust me when i say this setup sounds unbe-freakin-lievable. much better than an inexpensive 5.1 or 7.1 surround setup with preamp/amp in one unit, and cheap speakers.
Maybe you guys are getting these all the time, but i don't email much and just received my first phishing email. I never read or open anything if it looks even remotely sketchy, but this one was pretty good. i believed it for a few seconds, until i logged in to paypal through a separate browser and verified no changes had been made to my account. I then forwarded the email to spoof@paypal.com as paypal requests. they wrote back to verify that the email was a scam. Another giveaway was that every link in the email, including the phony email address, had the following url behind them (i never clicked it- don't know whats there): h t t p://linux.fal.pt/fundicao/img/cmd/index.html
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i loved kozmo and was surprised thay couldn't be profitable enough to stay in business. but this is nothing like kozmo. this is just a place to order delivery from a bunch of restaurants. kozmo didn't even offer that service (at least not in boston where i used it). kozmo had video rental and sold all kinds of stuff- snacks (like anything you can get in white hen- even ben & jerry's!), cd's, maybe even books- then they would deliver it all within an hour- it was awesome. i would definitely still use kozmo if it were around. i think boston was one of the few places it was profotable but i don't know for sure.
well... if they truly mean it to be an "entertainment supercomputer", then a 4 or 8 gig won't be enough. also, it seems they envision network drives as the future of storage for them:
The next step is definitely network drives. With the Cell server, they can be accessed from anywhere, via network. Whether it's your own house [or] your friend's house, you can access the [network hard drive] anywhere. That's the kind of world we're imagining.
but since they are shipping an OS with it, they know it will need some sort of local drive:
But there are still some issues if the machine doesn't come with an HDD. So this time, we've added a 2.5-inch HDD bay so that users can equip HDDs, such as 80GB and 120GB, even though that's still not enough [capacity]. Although a network drive would allow for terabytes of storage, there's still the necessity to run an operating system offline.
something to keep in mind about systems like these is that they are basically handling intentional DDOS attacks all day. what i mean is, picture thousands of traders all clicking away at a computer screen at the exact same millisecond (kind of like a slashdot effect), frequently sending multiple orders each. this often happens because traders listen to the same news and trade off the same events. so the exchange's systems are designed to handle major DDOSing all day. and they are required to handle the requests in milliseconds or it is considered an order delay (don't know the exact but something like > 300 milliseconds is considerd slow). don't know if i'm doing a great job explaining it, but i'm actually kind of impressed by the systems. they get beat down all day and do a pretty damn good job of handling it. some technical difficulties are expected. if i as a trader don't prepare for system failures in advance with backups and other ways to get out of positions, i'm a foolio.
say, man- you do know that there are several other markets that trade pretty much 24/7 (or at least 24/5) and would allow you to hedge any stuck overnight positions. the CME index futures come to mind. i was trading those when the nyse went down that day. there was plenty of time before the close of regular trading to open a position there. after the futures close at 3:15 central time, they open back up at 3:30 and trade all night until 3:15pm the next day. a position could have been entered and held overnight- just a thought.
Sirius is losing the car partnership race. Folks that buy new cars have something like a 30-50% conversion rate for whatever ships in the cars. That is becoming, increasingly, XM. Their new deal with Hyundai is going to probably bring in more subscribers than Stern ever would, but it didn't cost half a billion.
from the Sirius website:
Aston Martin BMW Chrysler DaimlerChrysler Dodge Fle etwood Enterprises Ford Hertz Infiniti Jaguar Jeep Land Rover Lincoln MINI Mazda Mercedes-Benz Mercur y Monaco Coach Corporation Nissan Volvo ...and Toyota- though not listed on their web site
from xm's web site:
General Motors Corporation American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Toyota Audi Nissan North America
yes, they both have toyota and nissan. Doesn't really look like Sirius is losing the car partnership race. And how is Sirius losing the hardware race? don't feel like researching that one right now but i didn't see your proof for that either.
I love this new customize google since i use a lot of the features separately, but it takes a long time for/. stories to be updated. As of this posting (8:40 am eastern) the latest/. headline still hasn't shown up (BSA Reacts to 'New' BitTorrent Posted by CowboyNeal on Fri May 20, 07:54 AM) that's almost an hour lag. since most/.ers refresh slash every 5 minutes, that's no good.
Don't know this for certain but based on the info i read on Asperger's Syndrome (focused intelligence in one area, inability to read body language in others- social akwardness), doesn't it seem like Chloe from 24 is the hollywood version of Asperger's?
How does changing the time increase the amount of sunlight in a day?????? Does the sun know we've changed our clocks so it stays out longer for us? I've never understood time changes.
you can get definitions and local listings (and a few other services) by sending a text message to 46645 (GOOGL on most phones). Not totally worthwhile but i've used the definition feature to settle stupid debates with friends over words when no dictionary or computer was nearby. got my reply within like 30 seconds.
All cars (in the US at least) have to allow the steering and braking to control the car in the event of an engine stall, albeit with increased effort
I had this happen to me in an old jeep cherokee (~1990?). I could not steer nor brake. I was young and had no idea what to do as i was heading for an intersection. i put the car in park which was probably totally wrong because i heard some horrible noises from the car, but eventually came to a stop.
I love the ipod, but hate the scroll wheel. I use my ipod in my car frequently. sometimes scrolling through that thing is worse then driving and talking on a cell phone. i look down, i'm one 'click' above the artist/song that i want, look at road, look down, scroll ever so slightly, end up one notch past what i want, look at road, look down, scroll ever so slightly, one notch past again, and so on.
the new click wheel looks a lot nicer and would probably solve that problem, but i have the old one.
Any investment analyst will tell you that it's far better to have numerous low-priced shared than a few high-priced ones.
that is just not true. the Average True Range of the stock is what is important. if you own 1 share of a $10,000 per share stock, but it swings $1000/day in price, you can make much more than owining 1000 shares of a $1 stock that moves $.03 per day on average. numerous low priced shares are only better if the swings are big.
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I'm late to this thread so I'm not sure anyone will see this but...
Olympic divers are not required to be 16. Take a look at this 15 year old Chinese diver and compare her to this supposedly 16 year old Chinese gymnast.
The 15 year old diver looks much more mature and developed- like she has actually gone through puberty. Just my opinion.
Who says they shorted it? AAPL has been steadily going up for a long time. The trend is your friend with that one. Seems like a better buy opportunity than sell. Spread the rumor, wait for dip, buy the hell out of AAPL.
From his blog:
The campaigns had no idea who made it--not the Obama campaign, not the Clinton campaign, nor any other campaign. I made the ad on a Sunday afternoon in my apartment using my personal equipment (a Mac and some software), uploaded it to YouTube, and sent links around to blogs.
"Templates" such as a call from overseas followed by a flurry of domestic calls are used to identify leads, which are forwarded to the FBI for investigation.
So recently my uncle died. He lived in Thailand. My mom (his sister) received a call from overseas, then obviously called every relative here in the U.S. We even called travel agents and airlines trying to arrange last minute travel. So by the FBI's reasoning, we should be investigated for this "suspicious" activity. There are so many more legitimate reasons to receive an international call, then make several domestic calls, than there are suspicious ones. What a waste of resources.
i hate to say it, but this is good for the consumer. when was the last time any of you tried to get good tickets for a REALLY high-demand show? it is impossible. I recently tried to get tickets for the Tool concert. At 10am when tickets went on sale, I was on 3 different computers, with an IE and Firefox open on each. At 9:59 I was hitting refresh on every screen. Guess what? I didn't get through once- not even for crappy seats. I ended up paying a broker $300 each for tickets.
But here's the most annoying part: at 9am- long before tickets went on sale to the public, there were at least 30 tickets for sale on ebay. They were all brokers, and the all said "seats will be revealed at 10am." The brokers are not working hard for their $.
This has happened to me for several other high-demand events- White Sox playoffs, Seinfeld stand-up. I either get no tickets, or nose-bleed seats, yet every broker in town has tons of front-and-center seats. I always end up paying the brokers. At least with the auction system I still over-pay, but it will be some sort of "fair market" price- and the brokers can't scam the auction by running up the price because they don't make a dime.
Personally I think brokers are total scam artists, and as much as I don't like ticketmaster, I still prefer to remove the brokers.
I'm not exactly sure how digg works, but about 5 minutes ago i noticed a link to this /. story on digg.com's front page. now it is nowhere to be found. can a story be demoted from digg's front page? is there somewhere where i can see which stories have been demoted? it appears to me that digg intentionally removed the story.
I copied the following directly from this website which has an interesting analysis of tool's lateralus album.
There's a Fibonacci in Maynard's lyrics, specifically the syllables:
black [1]
then [1]
white are [2]
all I see [3]
in my infancy [5]
red and yellow then came to be [8]
reaching out to me [5]
lets me see [3]
there is [2]
so [1]
much [1]
more and [2]
beckons me [3]
to look through to these [5]
infinite possibilities [8]
as below so above and beyond I imagine [13]
drawn outside the lines of reason [8]
push the envelope [5]
watch it bend [3]
I suppose it's not actually a true Fibonacci, since it does reverse itself.
on my motorola verizon phone (and i think most local, non-cell phones), dialing *67 before a call blocks my number.
i cleaned out my own desk while they watched to make sure i didn't steal anything.
this reminds me of something i saw when i used to work in corporate america. once before a company wide meeting, a friend/colleague handed me a sheet of paper with a grid of boxes on it- like a bingo board, but each box had a 'buzzword' in it- synergy, proactive, win-win, B2B, e-commerce, e-solutions, etc., etc. the goal was to mark off a word every time you heard it in a meeting. if you crossed off all the words in one row, column, or diagonally, you stand up and yell "BULLSHIT!". freakin' hilarious.
I would rather be stuck in stereo with two very high quality speakers, than surround sound with 7 crappy ones.
that is exactly what i have and most people who come over (except for the audiophile who helped me pick out and set up my equipment) say that dvd's and music sound better on my system than anywhere else they've been. multiple people have said that dvd's sound like the theatre (even though they are listening in stereo, not surround!), and that they would rather watch a movie at my place any day.
i have 2 B&W floor speakers, B&W sub, rotel preamp/processor, and rotel amplifier. total cost was just over $5,000 for everything (that's not including the 50 inch samsung dlp). trust me when i say this setup sounds unbe-freakin-lievable. much better than an inexpensive 5.1 or 7.1 surround setup with preamp/amp in one unit, and cheap speakers.
Maybe you guys are getting these all the time, but i don't email much and just received my first phishing email. I never read or open anything if it looks even remotely sketchy, but this one was pretty good. i believed it for a few seconds, until i logged in to paypal through a separate browser and verified no changes had been made to my account. I then forwarded the email to spoof@paypal.com as paypal requests. they wrote back to verify that the email was a scam. Another giveaway was that every link in the email, including the phony email address, had the following url behind them (i never clicked it- don't know whats there): h t t p ://linux.fal.pt/fundicao/img/cmd/index.html
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i loved kozmo and was surprised thay couldn't be profitable enough to stay in business. but this is nothing like kozmo. this is just a place to order delivery from a bunch of restaurants. kozmo didn't even offer that service (at least not in boston where i used it). kozmo had video rental and sold all kinds of stuff- snacks (like anything you can get in white hen- even ben & jerry's!), cd's, maybe even books- then they would deliver it all within an hour- it was awesome. i would definitely still use kozmo if it were around. i think boston was one of the few places it was profotable but i don't know for sure.
well... if they truly mean it to be an "entertainment supercomputer", then a 4 or 8 gig won't be enough. also, it seems they envision network drives as the future of storage for them:
The next step is definitely network drives. With the Cell server, they can be accessed from anywhere, via network. Whether it's your own house [or] your friend's house, you can access the [network hard drive] anywhere. That's the kind of world we're imagining.
but since they are shipping an OS with it, they know it will need some sort of local drive:
But there are still some issues if the machine doesn't come with an HDD. So this time, we've added a 2.5-inch HDD bay so that users can equip HDDs, such as 80GB and 120GB, even though that's still not enough [capacity]. Although a network drive would allow for terabytes of storage, there's still the necessity to run an operating system offline.
something to keep in mind about systems like these is that they are basically handling intentional DDOS attacks all day. what i mean is, picture thousands of traders all clicking away at a computer screen at the exact same millisecond (kind of like a slashdot effect), frequently sending multiple orders each. this often happens because traders listen to the same news and trade off the same events. so the exchange's systems are designed to handle major DDOSing all day. and they are required to handle the requests in milliseconds or it is considered an order delay (don't know the exact but something like > 300 milliseconds is considerd slow). don't know if i'm doing a great job explaining it, but i'm actually kind of impressed by the systems. they get beat down all day and do a pretty damn good job of handling it. some technical difficulties are expected. if i as a trader don't prepare for system failures in advance with backups and other ways to get out of positions, i'm a foolio.
say, man- you do know that there are several other markets that trade pretty much 24/7 (or at least 24/5) and would allow you to hedge any stuck overnight positions. the CME index futures come to mind. i was trading those when the nyse went down that day. there was plenty of time before the close of regular trading to open a position there. after the futures close at 3:15 central time, they open back up at 3:30 and trade all night until 3:15pm the next day. a position could have been entered and held overnight- just a thought.
well... revenue is down (they're taking in less money):
revenue second quarter of fiscal year 2005: $9,258,000
comparable quarter 2004: $10,137,000
but losses are significantly down (this is good for them- they are losing less):
net loss second quarter 2005: $1,962,000, or ($0.11) per share
net loss comparable quarter 2004: $14,726,000, or ($1.04) per share.
so who knows if they're dying, but the decrease in losses coupled with the steady revenue ($9 mil ain't too shabby) makes them look ok.
Sirius is losing the car partnership race. Folks that buy new cars have something like a 30-50% conversion rate for whatever ships in the cars. That is becoming, increasingly, XM. Their new deal with Hyundai is going to probably bring in more subscribers than Stern ever would, but it didn't cost half a billion.
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Land Roverr y
...and Toyota- though not listed on their web site
from the Sirius website:
Aston Martin
BMW
Chrysler
DaimlerChrysler
Dodge
Fl
Ford
Hertz
Infiniti
Jaguar
Jeep
Lincoln
MINI
Mazda
Mercedes-Benz
Mercu
Monaco Coach Corporation
Nissan
Volvo
from xm's web site:
General Motors Corporation
American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Toyota
Audi
Nissan North America
yes, they both have toyota and nissan. Doesn't really look like Sirius is losing the car partnership race. And how is Sirius losing the hardware race? don't feel like researching that one right now but i didn't see your proof for that either.
I love this new customize google since i use a lot of the features separately, but it takes a long time for /. stories to be updated. As of this posting (8:40 am eastern) the latest /. headline still hasn't shown up (BSA Reacts to 'New' BitTorrent Posted by CowboyNeal on Fri May 20, 07:54 AM) that's almost an hour lag. since most /.ers refresh slash every 5 minutes, that's no good.
Don't know this for certain but based on the info i read on Asperger's Syndrome (focused intelligence in one area, inability to read body language in others- social akwardness), doesn't it seem like Chloe from 24 is the hollywood version of Asperger's?
How does changing the time increase the amount of sunlight in a day?????? Does the sun know we've changed our clocks so it stays out longer for us? I've never understood time changes.
you can get definitions and local listings (and a few other services) by sending a text message to 46645 (GOOGL on most phones). Not totally worthwhile but i've used the definition feature to settle stupid debates with friends over words when no dictionary or computer was nearby. got my reply within like 30 seconds.
All cars (in the US at least) have to allow the steering and braking to control the car in the event of an engine stall, albeit with increased effort
I had this happen to me in an old jeep cherokee (~1990?). I could not steer nor brake. I was young and had no idea what to do as i was heading for an intersection. i put the car in park which was probably totally wrong because i heard some horrible noises from the car, but eventually came to a stop.
I love the ipod, but hate the scroll wheel. I use my ipod in my car frequently. sometimes scrolling through that thing is worse then driving and talking on a cell phone. i look down, i'm one 'click' above the artist/song that i want, look at road, look down, scroll ever so slightly, end up one notch past what i want, look at road, look down, scroll ever so slightly, one notch past again, and so on.
the new click wheel looks a lot nicer and would probably solve that problem, but i have the old one.
Any investment analyst will tell you that it's far better to have numerous low-priced shared than a few high-priced ones.
that is just not true. the Average True Range of the stock is what is important. if you own 1 share of a $10,000 per share stock, but it swings $1000/day in price, you can make much more than owining 1000 shares of a $1 stock that moves $.03 per day on average. numerous low priced shares are only better if the swings are big.