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re: What intellectual property?
Powerpoint slides and Word documents.
OT
No we cannot, as I do not have the capability to Private Message. My profile would have told you as much.
In my world, a "stand-up guy" does not peddle gossip.
Further, your original comment is akin to saying that because the Washington Post carries editorials, that front page news is editorial in nature.
Pure obfuscation, IMO.
You can't have it both ways. Is Rennie a gossip columnist or a "stand-up guy"?
I pulled the trigger on my new notebook purchase last November because I could still get XP preloaded and the Centrino Duo processor was readily available.
10 months later I can see that was the right thing to do. Most everyone I know who moved to Vista (either upgrade or new PC purchase) has either had problems, dislike Vista, or both.
Now Microsoft is "quietly" allowing PC OEM's to preload XP on business machines (almost a year after Vista launch). They wouldn't do this if there wasn't significant demand.
This should tell you all you need to know.
Why do you have the word "Leach" in your post signature? Just curious.
I think you meant:
irradiated & poultry
Are you saying that you have no agenda?
I believe everyone posting on any message board has an agenda.
That is what makes a market, no?
re; We all have our beliefs, and are entitled to them, so why do some constantly try to manipulate others??
It's called a debate.
re: I find it not only increasingly annoying but also a firm indicator that the deck is stacked, when we shareholders are subjected to such an organized effort.... and especially so when done by those who hold no shares in this stock at all to begin with.
This statement flies in the face of logic. You imply that those who see a negative future for the firm should own shares of that firm.
The other side of that logical coin would imply that those who see a good future for the firm should not be invested in it.
Think about it.
re: A growing problem...
I was commenting on your post to the effect that "No one could be this stupid", regarding believing what the firm says.
My comment was meant to imply that, perhaps, stupidity is not the issue (hence the entreaty to reexamine assumptions). If not stupidity, what do you suppose could be the motive to continue to pump?
re: Absolutely NO ONE could be this STUPID!
When you encounter a contradiction, it is usually best to reexamine your assumptions.
re: Maybe Doctor shell is a dog Doctor?
Yes, indeed, she is. A Stock-Dog doctor. And her abilities as a prognostician are impressive.
Embarq = <cough>
MOU is not a PO. How many MOU's has this outfit pumped in the past that led to absolutely nothing?
re: Four equipment manufacturers are building line cards around RSMI's tech
Yep, as Ophelia asked: Name them. Then name their end-customers.
Two part question. But you won't have to answer the second part. A nonexistent manufacturer cannot have an end-customer.
re: stop for a minute and consider that MAYBE you are regularly given somewhat unreliable info
You reckon? LOL!
re: bottomline is to make money
You will get no argument from me on that. I was simply voicing my opinion on the ads as a user. As a businessman, I also realize the need to listen to input from your customers.
Now, don't slap me with the "you're a freebie" bit. This place is supported several ways. One is subscriptions. Another is page views and click-throughs from people like me who see the ads.
My only point (and Meatloaf was kind enough to reply) is that I would rather click to an ad instead of being subjected to every ad my mouse pointer gets near (and because of poor eyesight, I tend to "read with my mouse pointer").
Of course, the owners will do whatever they want.
JMO.
Thanks for the reply. Please keep in mind the negative impact to the user's experience.
Thanks.
Hi,
I am seeing green links in posts which pop up ads when I mouse-over. I've seen this at other sites before but not here.
Just some input: It's really aggravating.
Tex,
I was misled by earlier reports that the SIM card was sealed. Another poster indicated there was, indeed, a card slot.
But the SIM card does seem crippled to the point that an ATT customer cannot take the SIM card from their old phone and plug it into the iPhone. You have to use the new SIM card provided with the iPhone and go through the activation process like a new customer.
I believe this would bode poorly for a frequent international traveler. When out of country, they could pay as much as $5 a minute due to high local, long distance and roaming charges. I know when I am in a different country for an extended period, I can sign up for a local plan and insert their card in my phone. Based on what I've been able to find out so far, this won't work with the iPhone.
And when you look at the price of the iPhone, wouldn't you expect international travelers to comprise a decent percentage of the target demographic?
Thanks for the info. Earlier reports indicated the SIM card would not be accessible by the user.
However, I still do not think this will help the out-of-country experience:
The other point of focus from the FAQ revolves around that nasty little SIM card. It has been generally accepted that there will in fact be a SIM card slot (although the recent walkthrough does not explicitly point it out), but AT&T and Apple have gone to some lengths to ensure that transferring data to the iPhone will be as big a pain in the ass as possible, for those of us who are used to doing so via our SIMs. We already know that the iPhone will be locked to AT&T (and therefore incompatible with SIMs from other carriers), but according to the FAQ, even current AT&T users won't be able to transfer their SIMs to the iPhone:
Q. I'm an existing customer. Can I swap out my current SIM card and start right away?
A. No. iPhone must be activated befroe [sic] it can be used. iPhone includes a pre-installed SIM card for your convenience.
So, even existing AT&T customers will have to transfer their accounts to the new SIM card before use: no swapping out intra-carrier SIMs for you!
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/06/27/iphone-faq-smacks-down-phone-insurance-and-sim-....
re: a tourist from Argentina who said he was not even sure the phone would work once he got it home.
Maybe ... Maybe Not.
The iPhone is a sealed device. This means no user access to the battery (I'm sure this has already been covered) but, perhaps more importantly for international travelers, the SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card cannot be changed by the user (as it is changeable in most phones).
What does this mean? It means a phone purchased in the US and used in a different country will pay undiscounted local, long distance and roaming fees. This could add up to $5 a minute to use.
And every country requires it's own SIM card if you want to subscribe locally to avoid such charges.
I believe lack of user access to the battery and SIM card is the major chink in iPhone's armour.
re: Cash Flow Analysis on the 80 million dollors ...
That will be called "Exhibit A".
re: just to verify an expanding PR
Sounds far more likely a contraction (if it happens), not an expansion.
Have they announced closure of Sams?
The trim shop was and is, essentially, a non-entity.
re: Definition of consolidate (verb)
to combine into one body or system.
The very definition you provided lays your claim to "consolidation" bare. The definition presupposes two (or more) entities to be consolidated into a smaller number of entities.
Sulja has one location in Harrow. Which is to be closed. Another new location is to be allegedly opened in Calgary. This would be a move (IF it happens), not a consolidation.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Oh, I don't know.
Perhaps a quote from the mayor of Calgary in the press welcoming Sulja to his/her fair city. Or a similar quote from the Chamber of Commerce? That's the way these things are usually done.
Sounds more like:
"Exit. Stage Left"
To me.
Sorry, bot the tinyrim01 alias now sleeps with the fishes:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/profile.asp?user=103713
TheStreet.com
Raging Bull Chat Room Devotees Get Dose of 'Whopper'
By Robert Kowalski
Staff Reporter
11/9/00 3:12 PM ET
If anyone needed further proof that Internet bulletin boards attract fools like winged vermin to a Shell No-Pest Strip, Steve Tracy offered it last week when he publicly "confessed" online that he was being paid to bash stocks.
In the week that followed, lots of the gullible folk still apparently didn't realize just how badly they were being had. So badly that Tracy, the originator of the little hoax, was sheepishly wondering if his prank had spiraled out of control.
"In my view, this thing has gotten totally ridiculous," he wrote in an email interview. "While at first I was pleased at the reception it received, I am quite dismayed that so many people would believe what I had thought to be an obvious joke."
The fun began last Wednesday when Tracy, who goes by the Internet alias firebird_1965, posted a tome entitled, "Confessions of a Paid Basher", on Raging Bull.
Blastoff
Tracy posted the purported mea culpa with considerable fanfare, including a message-by-message countdown to its launch.
In the missive, he came clean in gushing prose about what many of the conspiratorial types have suspected for months about the Internet message boards: He claimed he was being paid to bash stocks as part of an orchestrated effort to drive their prices down. He said he worked for a boiler room operation called Franklin Andrews Kramer & Edelstein in Stamford, Conn.
He said he was ashamed and wanted to be able to look himself in the mirror again. "I'm too broken up to continue. I hope this confession can make up for my sordid deeds," he wrote.
OK, that kind of talk usually brings a skeptical smirk to any reporter's face. This is Raging Bull, after all, not the Little Sisters of the Poor. And there were other red flags fluttering around this tale.
There is no listing for Franklin Andrews in the Stamford phone directory. No sign of it in standard corporate records databases either. One clever observer later noticed a pattern in the first initials of each name in the firm when linked together: F-A-K-E.
"Come on, that's as obvious and silly as those acronyms they used in the old 1960s spy movies," Tracy said.
There was also a nearly identical posting of a so-called paid basher confession on another message board site with a different name for the supposed boiler room. Then there was the clincher. At the bottom of Tracy's "confession," well past the signature (for anyone who bothered to continue scrolling), read this innocuous line: "And if you believe this -- lol."
In Internet posting lingo, "lol" is short for "laughing out loud."
Bingo.
But that's the part no one picked up initially when they electronically copied the confession and began posting it all over other message board sites under headings for at least a dozen different stocks.
Those included boards for Urbana(URBA:OTC BB), Sun Microsystems(SUNW:Nasdaq), Cyber-Care(CYBR:Nasdaq) and WaveRider Communications(WAVC:Nasdaq).
"It put 'bashers' in a whole new light for me" one person wrote in a posting on Raging Bull.
Tracy claims on his Raging Bull profile to be a 35-year old Texas marketing consultant with an MBA who likes "fast cars, faster women." But we know how much to believe about what he says online.
Still, in an email interview, he said: "I would ask that it be made clear ... that I am not a paid basher."
"The truly sad thing is that after learning it was a put on, some of these people still want to believe it was part of some grand conspiracy," he said. "My suggestion to these people is: Don't go to Burger King for a while -- you've already had your share of Whoppers!"
http://www.thestreet.com/pf/tech/internet/1165692.html
It's the least I can do.
Actually, I have no desire to "save" you or anyone else.
I just get entertained by the flimsy antics of this "firm" and the "believers" who prop it up.
I'll tell you what is silly:
The phony Photo Shop line card Rim foisted on you.
And the fact that you do not see through their ruse.
That and the stupid embedded audio you force on others in your posts.
Go find a form factor that even comes close to what Rim ginned up. I'm not going to do your work for you.
Hint: You are going to be gone a long, long time.
What does it matter if it was offered for sale on eBay. The photo depicts a telephone line card. Please note the form factor. Then compare that to the poorly faked image that was put out by Rim.
This is what a telephone line card is supposed to look like:
re: Just because that offer is on the table doesn't mean it will be used.
Perhaps, but the fact that it is already on the table and is disclosed, makes it more likely to happen than not.
Cameron?
I think he had another alias after that.
re: ... there can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully commercialize our semiconductor technology.
No chip, Sherlock!
re: Many additional pieces of information suggest that an organized effort to creat FUD about the company also exists. Can you explain that?
Fear
Uncertainty
Doubt
Don't you think this company, at this sad juncture, has enabled all the FUD required? All by themselves?
re: Thanks for letting us know your (sic) a dummy...
That would be spelled "you're", a contraction of you and are (lest you be accused of being a "dummy").