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Charlie, Happy New year. I never doubted Apple and never sold a share. Microsoft scares me a bit but I think its a bigger threat to the Android phones than it is to Apple. Still that company is starting to look to me like an awakening giant. I think I'm going to dump BIDU and buy Microsoft. My BIDU investment has proven a terrible one.
I only had a very small position in BIDU, but I dumped it several weeks ago at about $132. I had bought it at around $155 I believe. I used that money to buy a few more shares of AAPL.
The question now becomes, do we sell a little bit of our AAPL just ahead of the Earnings Report on January 24? I would hate it if the earnings disappoint and the stock takes a dive like after the last report. What do you think?
Any chance of ever seeing the other 28%?
Interesting read..
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Compared to the EU he is probably right. Only CA & IL challenges Greece for the worst run governments.
I finished it about 2 weeks ago. I decided the man must have had some issues with mental illness - bi-polar/clinical depression - or a minor case of Asperger's.
http://www.aarp.org/work/retirement-planning/info-09-2010/10-best-rated-states-f- or-retirement.1.html
Maine finished dead last in the rankings. The high cost of living and harsh climate dragged down the state's appeal to retirees. Joblessness and tax burdens weighed on runner-up Michigan. Massachusetts received a poor ranking because of cold weather and the cost of living.
http://www.aarp.org/work/retirement-planning/info-09-2010/10-worst-rated-states-- for-retirement.html
Don't forget retiring outside the USA....
http://www.aarp.org/home-garden/livable-communities/best_places_to_retire_abroad- /
The amazing thing is he decided to self-treat his pancreatic cancer, and dithered around with that for 9 months.... basically signed his own death sentence...
Not exactly a testament to his "genius"..
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Computerworld - IBM announced Thursday that after five years of work, its researchers have been able to reduce from about one million to 12 the number of atoms required to create a bit of data.
The breakthrough may someday allow data storage hardware manufacturers to produce products with capacities that are orders of magnitude greater than today's hard disk and flash drives.
"Looking at this conservatively ... instead of 1TB on a device you'd have 100TB to 150TB. Instead of being able to store all your songs on a drive, you'd be able to have all your videos on the device," said Andreas Heinrich, IBM Research Staff Member and lead investigator on this project.
Today, storage devices use ferromagnetic materials where the spin of atoms are aligned or in the same direction.
The IBM researchers used an unconventional form of magnetism called antiferromagnetism, where atoms spin in opposite directions, allowing scientists to create an experimental atomic-scale magnet memory that is at least 100 times denser than today's hard disk drives and solid-state memory chips.
Go IBM!!
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OW
I'm about to pull the trigger on buying a 27" IMAC.
All the stories I have been reading the past few days suggest that this next Apple earnings report will be a blowout report. It looks like there have been record shattering sales of the iPhone 4S and the iPad2 this past quarter. I am now almost certain that I will not sell any of my shares going into the report on the 24th.
Today, to store a single bit — the most basic piece of information a computer understands – a disk drive needs one million atoms. Heinrich and his team have successfully shown that data can be stored in as few as 12 magnetic atoms. That’s 12 versus 1 million and it means a hundred times more information can be stored in the same space.
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OW
That drive becomes 100TB. HUGE! Cost is high now but will eventually go down.
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OW
Excellent question. That will be one of the many hurdles to bring it to market.
The process
Computers' understanding of information starts with the bit. A bit can have just two values--one or zero. IBM says that prior to this development, it was unclear how many atoms would be required to create a reliable memory bit.
"With properties similar to those of magnets on a refrigerator, ferromagnets use a magnetic interaction between its constituent atoms that align all their spins--the origin of the atoms' magnetism--in a single direction," IBM said in a release about the storage discovery. "Ferromagnets have worked well for magnetic data storage but a major obstacle for miniaturizing this down to atomic dimensions is the interaction of neighboring bits with each other. The magnetization of one magnetic bit can strongly affect that of its neighbor as a result of its magnetic field. Harnessing magnetic bits at the atomic scale to hold information or perform useful computing operations requires precise control of the interactions between the bits."
In order to achieve this control, Heinrich and his team used IBM Almaden's scanning tunneling microscope to "atomically engineer 12 antiferromagnetically coupled atoms" that were capable of holding on to a data bit for several hours at temperatures as low as 4 degrees Kelvin. And that meant that by leveraging the "inherent alternating magnetic spin directions," Heinrich and his fellow researchers showed that it is possible to place adjacent magnetic bits far closer together than has ever been done before.
While Heinrich has now shown that storage is possible at many magnitudes smaller scale than ever, it will likely be many years before this results in any kind of marketable technology, he said. It will take quite some time before he and his team can move this new technology out of the lab, and creating products from the discovery is a business decision, not one that will be made by Heinrich and his fellow researchers. "We have the luxury of now worrying about [manufacturing]," Heinrich said. "Our mission is to figure out what we want to build, but now worry about how it's practical" because that's a huge next step.
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Charlie - Apple at an all time high. Still waiting for my IMAC to arrive.
As far as AAPL is concerned, I'm loving the ride right now. The stock really acts like something bigtime will be forthcoming with AAPL. I am obviously very happy that I did not sell one single share in the past several months, but instead added to my position.
I apologize for my lack of input here, but I've been overwhelmed. My wife has been suffering from a mysterious injury to her neck and shoulder, and has been unable to do anything at all for over three weeks. She's essentially been in bed over 95% of the time since Christmas. If the landscape "project" wasn't happening at this same time, it would have helped a little, but it has demanded a lot of my attention.
In addition, my realtor friend came up with some investment properties to look at, and I've had to go look at six different properties. There is one of them I have put an offer on today, and I hope it works out. All this has taken a lot of extra time as well. And, I've been doing a fairly good job of being Mr. Mom, all while running my business, and doing everything that it takes to attend to the kids. Heck, I'm quite a damned good cook, too... LOL.
I am about out of energy. So, that's why you haven't heard much from me lately. I have noticed that the stock market is doing better lately, and that's certainly a good thing for those of you that are invested in equities.
I have read that the iPad3 is likely going to be announced in February and come out in March. I will very likely buy it. I met some interesting people earlier in the week while my son was shooting a TV commercial, and there was a couple of them that were huge Apple fans, but they were complaining about their iPads because of the lack of "Flash" support. They said it really ruins a lot of the internet experience. I didn't realize that there was still that much Flash on the internet. What's your experience with this Charlie? Do you surf the web often, and if so, is it really a big problem?
Maybe I will get the MacBook Air instead of the iPad3. I really like the little 11" model, because it seems like the perfect mobile companion. I read here that Len ordered the iMac, which I believe is the best desktop value out there, without a doubt... and I have often thought I would get one of them for my office. However, more and more, I realize that I don't use my desktop computer nearly as much as I used to, and I wonder if I should just skip a desktop unit altogether. Bottom line, is that I still am undecided what I'm going to buy next, and I am simply waiting for the next products to come out and tempt me enough to buy one or more of them.
Also, I am getting dizzy with the race for a Republican presidential candidate. To be honest, I had hoped for someone better than these candidates. But, that said, they are all better than Obama, without a doubt. But... c'mon... isn't there someone out there that's got what it takes?
Lastly, I noticed the posts about the IBM achievement for storing a bit of data on a massively reduced number of atoms. That is awesome, and is really just another discovery in a long string of discoveries that have yet to happen. The pursuit and accumulation of knowledge and the discoveries of the "meaning of life" and the universe goes on and on. Sometimes, I wish I could live much longer to see what the future holds, but ultimately, I expect that at some point, long, long into the future, it will be realilzed that the accumulation of all knowledge and wisdom and love, will show that science itself is not in conflict with the existence of God, but rather will actually prove it one day (for those that need "proof").
Anyway, wish me luck on my real estate investment. I am excited about it.
Best to all of you.
TM
At the Guggenheim Museum in New York Thursday, Apple announced it would update its iBooks platform to include textbook capabilities, such as indexing and highlighting text. It also added a new platform called iBooks Author, which lets anyone easily create and publish their own e-books. Apple's late co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs had hoped to bring relief to the higher education masses in the late 80s and early 90s, but 20 years later, Jobs's legacy lives on in Apple, which hopes to make yet another dent in the education industry.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/284470/20120119/apple-kills-textbook-ibooks-2-au- thor.htm
If this ends the Strangle hold on students to buy OVER Priced text books, I will take back every bad thing I have said about Apple.
I met some interesting people earlier in the week while my son was shooting a TV commercial, and there was a couple of them that were huge Apple fans, but they were complaining about their iPads because of the lack of "Flash" support. They said it really ruins a lot of the internet experience. I didn't realize that there was still that much Flash on the internet. What's your experience with this Charlie? Do you surf the web often, and if so, is it really a big problem?
Yes, the fact that some sites are still dependent on flash player, makes it somewhat of a pain. However, as time goes by, this will be less and less of a problem. Let me tell you this about flash: It is causing all sorts of problems on my laptop. It crashes constantly. I am not sure if this is due to the fact that I use Google Chrome or it happens with all search engines. I love Google Chrome. Speaking of Google, wow, what a collapse after the earnings report yesterday. It's probably a good buy now. Getting back to the iPad and the flash problem, it is not going to stop me from purchasing the iPad 3 when it is released.
In other news, at long last, the MF Global accounts I was managing are starting to get their 72%. My daughter received hers in the mail yesterday. However, as of yesterday, my brother and son have not. I am not sure if mine and my wife's came in yesterday since we are visiting my daughter and her family in Akron, OH. There has been major CORRUPTION taking place in this process. The brokerage house where our money was finally sent to has been trying to solicit our business. Of course, I told them I had no interest in trading any more in a corrupt system. Just send my money back. They still sent all sorts of propaganda material along with the checks to my daughter in this huge envelope yesterday. First of all, this should have never taken place, Secondly, why has it taken so long to get any of our money? You can rest assure that these SOB's are profiting with all the delays.
Finally, I wish you great success in your real estate endeavors. I truly believe that this is a perfect time for this. I'm happy that my daughter and son-in-law are building a house here in Akron. I wish my son and his wife had waited until now to buy a home in Seattle. I'm sure that the value of that home has to be down at least 10-15% since they bought it.
I think that the bad earnings report by Google yesterday is also affecting AAPL somewhat. Some analysts are worried that sales in Europe will be slow. However, from everything I am reading, I cannot see how Apple will not come out with a fantastic report this next Wednesday. The iPhone4S alone likely sold at least 27 million units in the past quarter. It will be a blowout number.
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OW
luck.
Knowing you capacity to -Learn- and enthusiasm, I surely do wish you all the best in the real-estate endeavor....I just caution you that it is sometimes difficult to change your mind quickly......I haven't done any income producing deals, but the first big break in my life was the ownership of a motel....For some reason the income produced made it so that the buildings and land were immaterial in a mental sense....so in one respect if the nine units produce a bountiful amount to funds , you too will know what I am talking about....I mean who wants to sell a money machine?
I recently went through what you are going through-- only two days-- and man that was enough....I'm also going to wish your wife a speedy recovery...So sorry. Tony
I can't wait to learn of the seller's response to the offer.
Did you happen to catch that debate last night? It's not very exciting. We've got to choose from...
1). the rich businessman who's a moderate, not very forthcoming, and seems difficult to trust.
2). a somewhat pompous, intelligent political specialist, who's a moody hothead, has a questionable character, and also seems difficult to trust,
3). an extreme constitutionalist, who's also an isolationist, and expresses some rather radical ideas, yet is likeable in a limited sort of way,
4). the young conservative, with the non-magnetic personality, but possibly a good head on his shoulders,
Frankly, I'm just not all that impressed with any of them. But, all are better than Obama, however.
TM
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Further up into Western N C the people are very conservative, because of the hardship of pioneering the nation....They are slowly being overrun by all of the rest of the people who primarily go up there to retire etc....A very slow change
I personallly think the people just don`t want the process to be over with, as there is no one who can win in that field---maybe it will clarify somewhere along the way, but I have my doubts---as you do
I would have preferred an East Coast / West coast SuperBowl challenge, but I'm not disappointed too much in the final outcome.
Patriots in the SuperBowl? Imagine that... absolutely shocking!
TM
I'll take the pit bull, thankyouverymuch...
He's what is needed, for such a time as this.
From everything I have been reading, the iPhone sales should have gone through the roof this past quarter. Plus, look at all the great products they will continue to come up with in the near future.
Just the opposite. I expect them to beat estimates.
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I would think it will trade at least $20-25 higher here in a few minutes.
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I am very happy to be wrong in this case
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This is our lucky day... there's good news for me as well today. Looks like I've got my deal on my very first investment property!... and it's a very good deal. The seller has accepted my terms. I'll have a positive cash flow of at least a couple grand every month (net, net... after ALL costs), (all tax-deferred, because I'm purchasing it with my retirement account), and the property is very likely to appreciate over the long haul. I'll be happy when it closes escrow.
You see... I wasn't kidding when I said I was going to invest in real estate. Heck, if this really works out well, I'll consider getting another property.
TM