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Thanks Augioboo and Trainguy. I think I can pick up a used match for around $200 - $300 and just swap hard drives. SONY is worthless as far as trying to help in this matter.
OT: I have a SONY PCG-F580 laptop that needs a new motherboard. Believe it or not someone dropped it on it's wireless card (think one of the kids or the maid) and that caused the wireless card to smash into the motherboard and break that part of the motherboard. The wireless card looks fine. I can't seem to find a motherboard anywhere and I have a feeling if I find one it will be more than a new computer. The PC was:
- Pentium III 650 MHZ
- 128 Meg RAM
- 12G Hard disk
- Win 98
Just looking for some advice:
1) Should I try to fix this one?
2) Should I get another laptop and can I get one with at least the same processing power for maybe $500 used?
3) If I get a new laptop should I go for a bigger Harddisk and move the data from the old harddisk to the new one?
4) Should I just take the old hard disk and put it in the new laptop and are they all compatible?
Thanks for anybody's assistance here.
OT: I have a SONY PCG-F580 laptop that needs a new motherboard. Believe it or not someone dropped it on it's wireless card (think one of the kids or the maid) and that caused the wireless card to smash into the motherboard and break that part of the motherboard. The wireless card looks fine. I can't seem to find a motherboard anywhere and I have a feeling if I find one it will be more than a new computer. The PC was:
- Pentium III 650 MHZ
- 128 Meg RAM
- 12G Hard disk
- Win 98
Just looking for some advice:
1) Should I try to fix this one?
2) Should I get another laptop and can I get one with at least the same processing power for maybe $500 used?
3) If I get a new PC should I go for a bigger Harddisk and move the data from the old harddisk to the new one?
4) Should I just take the old hard disk and put it in the new computer and are they all compatible?
Thanks for anybody's assistance here.
Justa, could you extrapolate on the different perspective? Could you spell out in plain English what you believe the significance of the new high on the RUT is today? If it's not bearish, is it bullish IYO?
Thanks, you and Syl and some others have been pretty on lately so your thoughts are important on this thread.
LG, are you changing your pullback amount from the 1600-1700 levels after expiry? Seems in your posts you are either thinking about revising or already have. Can you clarify? Thanks.
What's interesting is EVERY TIME the market goes down it's either due to TERRORIST ATTACKS or PROFIT TAKING or some other silly little short term setback. It's NEVER because of overbloated valuations, huge deficit problems, etc.
Nikkei down 1600 points in the last month!
15%+ move down.
Too many federal dykes to plug up from an administration that has made their bed...
Thanks LG, so roughly between NAS 1600 and 1700 but probably won't break the October 02 RSL. How strong do you believe the Oct 02 RSL is? Seems like you almost rule out breaking it, correct?
Thanks LG.
Hi LG, the good news is I believe you are the only one I follow calling for a further correction. Everyone else is tripping over themselves to "buy this dip" for the next leg up (and they could be right but I get nervous when there is that much agreement). Could you give some actual price targets for the "extension of the current lows" you see after this consolidation into expiry? I know your time is limited so will understand if you can't respond for a few days.
Thanks
I think your assessment of Joe Stocks is "inaccurate." He comes across to me as a very even keel person who is open to other ideas. That doesn't mean he isn't passionate about what he believes which is a nice quality.
Could be, seems like a lot of weight to contend with:
- More dead US soldiers every day, terrorism heating up
- Mutual fund issue getting worse, Fed Res could be right and people are pulling out of Funds which is bad for market
- Toys R Us earnings and weak retail sales
- KLIC miss despite guiding rev up - could be another lie
- GDP and job loss shenanigans questioning longevity of economic recovery
- Priced for perfection
You think? {g}
Thanks, is low target 1865 / 1842 or do you have a different target? Road map seems pretty "on" to me. Nice work.
Does roadmap take us down to 1865 or 1842 or is this it Zeev? Think you were going to see how 1923 or 1930 was "handled" first.
Thanks.
choad, can you dispute the Friess comments? I don't think anyone is taking them as gospel but I haven't heard Brinker or anyone else say that the Friess quotes were inaccurate. Feel free to analyze / break down the numbers and give the rest of us some proof that the numbers are incorrect.
Could be right Fed. Do you have a take on this post by "Elroy Jetson?" This scares the heck out of me. I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything but I wonder if Bush and his team are behind any of this? I would welcome any comments on the following post:
Did anyone catch Foster Friess on this episode of "Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street"? This normally bullish manager of the Brandywine Fund pointed out that the "economic recovery" barely exists as he quantified two prominent lies in government statistics.
The 7.1% annualized growth in GDP during the 3rd quarter was actually 1.2% once you remove the "Hedonic Pricing" by the BLS. As an example, the figures included $39 Billion of computer sales. Actual computer sales were only $6 Billion. The missing $33 Billion of sales is the value of "imputed quality improvements" since 1996. This particular lie contributed 40% of the third quarter GDP growth.
Of course the most insidious part of this lie is not the over-statement of GDP and the understatement of the Inflation Rate by $33 Billion - the most pernicious aspect is that it over-states Productivity by $33 Billion.
Hedonic Pricing lies in total bumped the 1.2% growth up to 7.1%.
Employment figures are over-stated by another 50,000 jobs each month. Once the Federal Government declared the economy was recovering, the Labor Department is allowed to add an extra 50,000 jobs each month (to allow for "under-counting"). These jobs do not actually exist. Last May the Labor Dept had to "revise down" actual employment by 400,000 jobs to account for the previous eight months worth of lies at 50,000 jobs per month. Employment is actually still declining and unemployment is still rising.
SINA may meet it's maker right here. Careful.
Close on the lows indicator hit this morning according to ajtj99. I would be surprised by a 2:22 rampola. In fact this could be the start of the dumpola right here.
Think they're just 2 nicknames that have evolved over time and there's not much method to the madness - interchangeable.
By the way, didn't intend to tell you something you already knew - misunderstood the question.
How about this answer for QQQ?
1) The "Q's" refers to the multiple letter Q in the symbol.
2) The "cubes" refers to the fact that there are "3" Q's in the symbol and anything "cubed" in math terms is "to the third power."
Is that NTES touching 40 after hours? Wonder what would happen if it gets a tad under 40? Wasn't 43 or so supposed to be support? What is next support level?
LaZBoy and FAO Schwarz. Surprised on FAO - shopped there every Xmas as a kid - real special treat - great experience - too bad they're not making numbers but it is understandable - it's almost impossible to buy anything as the lines are huge and I think the biggest problem is people are lurking more than buying.
Seriously, I've seen this happen more often than not. Isn't anyone checking into this "coincidence?"
I've also seen charts on Bloomberg TV for economic numbers accidentally placed about a half hour before the numbers come out and I've seen the numbers early on the Bloomberg News Alert at the bottom of the screen as well.
These data leaks and "hints of where to close" should be a big problem for someone.
Spitzer next crusade?
Uncanny, isn't it Canny?
Looks like those broads decided to get a jump start on their Christmas shopping to help them retail sales.
Old ladies comin' or goin' today Jerry?
Actually the non-revolving credit spiked meaning a lot of car loans, motor homes, education, boats, trailers or vacations.
Plastic credit also went up but not as much as the non-revolving credit.
2:22 selloff just hit. Is it here to stay for the day or just a little retrench before trying to take the 2000 Mountain? Hoping like you it is here to stay.
Non-farm payroll increases / decreases in past year:
2002 change (k)
September.. 130,289
October.... 130,408 119
November... 130,409 1
December... 130,198 -211
2003
January.... 130,356 158
February... 130,235 -121
March...... 130,084 -151
April...... 130,062 -22
May........ 129,986 -76
June....... 129,903 -83
July....... 129,846 -57
August(p).. 129,805 -41
September(p) 129,862 57
After losing 550,000 jobs in Feb through August of 2003, it isn't surprising to start gaining some of them back.
Another thing that is also almost always for sure is the estimate is always way off. Tomorrow they expect us to gain 65,000 jobs - we will probably be much higher or lower than that estimate.
Could be sell the news either way looking at Zeev's roadmap.
I agree Zeev. One of your best qualities is you always "take the high road." Don't change. That's what makes this thread great.
LG, agreed on the ankle biters.
I saw your latest chart post today and if I may am I correctly interpreting that you see a fall to around NAS 1915 give or take a few and then a "good chance" of piercing that trend line and going lower?
Good you just give us a little more narration around that chart if my interpretation is incorrect (which I assume there is a good chance it is incorrect)?
Thanks.
By the way, Southwest by far has the best designed online booking system. You can see the low and real low fares available by the color of the date. They also have NO FEES for cancelling tickets.
The BIG MORONS should take notice. Maybe that is why SW market cap is larger than the next 4 biggest airlines combined!
Bearmove, as I know you are in the employment business (broad category as not sure if you are a recruiter or what - feel free to clarify for us), do you have a take on the disparity between the Challenger report of losing 175,000 jobs in the last month and the super low claims number this morning.
Also, everyone seems to think growth of 75K - 100K in tomorrow's nonfarm payrolls is "in the bag." How do these different reports come together?
Thanks.
It was sequential Joe because Chambers even clarified a couple times that it would be a good year if they just stayed flat sequentially for the rest of the year.
Margin guidance slightly down at 67%.
Will be interesting where stock goes from here ($22.80 - up a buck AH)
CSCO guidance - smiling John just took about 10 minutes to spit out the words "up slightly" sequentially from this quarter. CFO followed up with 1-3% up which would mean $5.15B - $5.25B vs. consensus of $5B.
I'm going to guess "sell the news" on CSCO and have no position in the stock.
While I think top line rev will be inline to up less than 3% and guidance will be the same (inline to up less than 3%), I think it's mostly built into the stock.
Let's see what smiling John has to say.
NTES - run for cover.
CSCO earnings tonight. Think they may have slight beat in the higher end products but pretty flat in the mainstay "meat and potatoes" with flat to slightly up guidance.
CSCO stock up about 65% in the last year outperforming the NAS (up a little less than 40%).
Are expectations too high? We'll see...