As an outsider, then yes you can almost always be sure their shares will go up right before a keynote (on expectations from false rumors) and down right after that (from the true products that are still usually pretty great but not as good as the false rumors).
But you have to see it from the company's viewpoint. False rumors fluctuate the company's value in harmful ways, and then the aftershock articles on how "Apple missed their own target" adds to the damage... well, that's easy to see why it's bad.
This was not some site that was trashing them, spreading damaging lies, and promoting non-Apple stuff.
I'm not so sure about this one. When rumors of unbelievable Apple products get around the net, people's expectations get too high. And when Apple finally releases their new product, people are shocked that it's not as amazing as the rumors.
See also: dumb share traders who buy on rumors and sell when the real products arrive and aren't up to rumors specs.
You don't really need a new printer. What you need is a Continuous Flow Systems. Never used one myself, but it does fit your description and is available today for a lot of printer models.
Just wanted to add my own "no problems with Leopard here either" comment (brand new Mac mini Core 2 Duo, but I did have to install Leopard over the pre-installed Tiger.
Tell me about it. I only have a Mac mini, so I just bought a Windows XP Home SP 2 Full Version (with COA) on eBay just so I could test websites with IE6 and IE7.
WinXP = about 100$ VMWare Fusion = about 80$ 2GB of RAM for the Mac mini = about 200$
With shipping, taxes and everything, this means I had to pay around 300$ just so I can test and make custom CSS for a browser that still can't correctly render a website according to CSS specs.
I think you're confusing "sold a lot of units" with "mass market". Also, consider how long the PS2 has been out, only 100 millions sold in nearly a decade is pathetic for a "mass market" product.
Then your company is doing something really wrong with the PDFs you are making, because I've never had any problem with PDFs on my Mac (yes, with Preview and also that new "Quick Look" thing in Leopard, not sure what it's called).
[...] until this generation of consoles reaches a truly mass market audience.
Sorry Bobby, but last time I checked, a 10-buttons gamepad isn't something for the "mass market". A remote that you move around in the air, however, can be used by pratically everyone.
The Wii is also the only GAME SYSTEM priced for the mass market, while the Xbox 360 and PS3 only seem to be targeted at becoming your media center computer.
Unless there's some incredible breakthrough coming soon, at prices that can at least match the old spinning disks technology, we're not about to replace TeraByte drives which are needed to store DVD and CD rips.
So yes, solid-state storage is the future, but not until it can match the capacity/price for massive amounts of storage. It's got the low-capacity (i.e. let's say 8GB for now) covered, but the high-capacity (let's say over 40GB) is still the domain of spinning disks.
Streaming is only useful for the "hey check this out" content type.
Most ISPs are starting to put monthly bandwidth limits on their users. You don't want to keep streaming the same thing over and over again every time you want to read/listen/view it.
You also can't access streaming content without internet access, such as on most portable devices (iPods, etc). Even if a few portable devices can access internet, it can still be trouble getting a connection (people are getting smarter and locking down their wi-fi routers), and it drains the batteries.
Downloading+storing is still better than streaming for most content.
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As an outsider, then yes you can almost always be sure their shares will go up right before a keynote (on expectations from false rumors) and down right after that (from the true products that are still usually pretty great but not as good as the false rumors).
But you have to see it from the company's viewpoint. False rumors fluctuate the company's value in harmful ways, and then the aftershock articles on how "Apple missed their own target" adds to the damage... well, that's easy to see why it's bad.
See also: dumb share traders who buy on rumors and sell when the real products arrive and aren't up to rumors specs.
Actually, once you've used a color laser printer, you don't want to go back. Inkjet is just too slow and messy.
Your computer would actually start undoing what you did in the last hour?
You don't really need a new printer. What you need is a Continuous Flow Systems. Never used one myself, but it does fit your description and is available today for a lot of printer models.
I wouldn't call an official Nintendo accessory a "hack", which is what the parent was talking about.
They also have a cart that allows you to play MP3 tunes and MP4 videos on a GBA SP/micro.
Since the Library of Congress is 20 TeraBytes, and that 16 GigaBytes weights less than one drop of water (let's round the weight to one drop), that means 20TB / 16GB = 1280 drops of water, and one drop of water is about 0.05ml, that means 1280 / 20 = 64 ml of water.
Just because you can now install Windows on your Mac doesn't mean you should.
Just wanted to add my own "no problems with Leopard here either" comment (brand new Mac mini Core 2 Duo, but I did have to install Leopard over the pre-installed Tiger.
I do have the AdLib Gold 1000 (with box and everything), what I'm looking for is the echo/reverb module for it.
I'm also looking for the Innovation SSI 2001 soundcard, but that's another story.
This thing doesn't seem to be able to run IE7, which is slowly but surely replacing the aging IE6. And IE7 can be installed on Windows XP SP2.
Tell me about it. I only have a Mac mini, so I just bought a Windows XP Home SP 2 Full Version (with COA) on eBay just so I could test websites with IE6 and IE7.
WinXP = about 100$
VMWare Fusion = about 80$
2GB of RAM for the Mac mini = about 200$
With shipping, taxes and everything, this means I had to pay around 300$ just so I can test and make custom CSS for a browser that still can't correctly render a website according to CSS specs.
Seriously that's the dumbest name I've ever heard.
Activizzard, on the other hand...
I think you're confusing "sold a lot of units" with "mass market". Also, consider how long the PS2 has been out, only 100 millions sold in nearly a decade is pathetic for a "mass market" product.
Then your company is doing something really wrong with the PDFs you are making, because I've never had any problem with PDFs on my Mac (yes, with Preview and also that new "Quick Look" thing in Leopard, not sure what it's called).
The Wii is also the only GAME SYSTEM priced for the mass market, while the Xbox 360 and PS3 only seem to be targeted at becoming your media center computer.
Cue all the Nintendo and Blizzard references ("the game won't ship until it's ready to ship").
See also: Starcraft II, Metroid Prime 3.
Unless there's some incredible breakthrough coming soon, at prices that can at least match the old spinning disks technology, we're not about to replace TeraByte drives which are needed to store DVD and CD rips.
So yes, solid-state storage is the future, but not until it can match the capacity/price for massive amounts of storage. It's got the low-capacity (i.e. let's say 8GB for now) covered, but the high-capacity (let's say over 40GB) is still the domain of spinning disks.
If your device originally took 10 watts, then a 5 watts saving is incredibly huge...
BENDER:
Well, Fry, it was a pleasure meetin' you.
I'm gonna go kill myself.
FRY:
Wait! You're the only friend I have.
BENDER:
You really want a robot for a friend?
FRY:
Yeah. Ever since I was six.
Indeed, if it really was a native OS X program it would also run on my PowerPC G4 Mac mini.
EVE on the Mac? Not really.
Streaming is only useful for the "hey check this out" content type.
Most ISPs are starting to put monthly bandwidth limits on their users. You don't want to keep streaming the same thing over and over again every time you want to read/listen/view it.
You also can't access streaming content without internet access, such as on most portable devices (iPods, etc). Even if a few portable devices can access internet, it can still be trouble getting a connection (people are getting smarter and locking down their wi-fi routers), and it drains the batteries.
Downloading+storing is still better than streaming for most content.