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- Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:25 pm
- Forum: Photography Workshop
- Topic: Digital Backups?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4815
Re: Digital Backups?
I haven't been very happy with backup solutions from Western Digital, Seagate, and other drive companies. They haven't worked as well as just buying an external enclosure and drive and backing up through USB 2.0. NAS (Network Attached Storage) has been a little pricey until I found this from Newegg ...
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:24 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Re: Stock Market Game
For the record, the stock market was up about 5.5% in the 3 months we played. Simply buying and S&P500 index fund would have put you in 8th place.
- Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:18 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Re: Stock Market Game
It's over...and no one noticed!
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:31 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: The Very Last Pontiac for the U.S. Market
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4912
Re: The Very Last Pontiac for the U.S. Market
I don't think "prone to rollovers" classifies it in the safe vehicle catagory.Mr. Tops wrote: But anyhow...it is a safe vehicle, although proned to rollovers,
- Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:12 pm
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: New Wyoming (MI) history book
- Replies: 0
- Views: 550
New Wyoming (MI) history book
The Wyoming Historical Commission has a new book out, Wilderness to Wyoming. There is quite a bit of info on the interurban with a few photos and also a chapter From Trails to Rails with a few Wyoming Yard photos. A lot of interesting reading for anyone growing up in the area. It's available at Marg...
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:39 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Re: Stock Market Game
With Warren Buffet buying Burlington Northern, DR moves into 2nd place, up 21% this morning.
- Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:10 pm
- Forum: Web Site updates, questions, and suggestions
- Topic: DST changes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4075
Re: DST changes
When I'm logged in the time is correct. When I'm not logged in the time is an hour off.
- Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:08 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Re: Stock Market Game
HAVING BEEN A REGISTERED REP FROM 1984 TO 2004 , I CAN SAY THAT THE REAL STOCK MARKET IS NOT A GAME. WHEN CLIENTS SEE $100K BECOME $50K IN A FEW WEEKS, IT LEAVES A LASTING IMPRESSION ON YOU. :( :( :(-AND THE CLIENT. This game is a poor representation of what investing should be about and yet this g...
- Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:11 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Re: Stock Market Game
Interesting article on Garmin and TomTom http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/28/googles-new-mobile-app-cuts-gps-nav-companies-at-the-knees/ . Do you short Garmin after its already dropped? Will google find a way to profit from this? edit: another article http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20091029/wit...
- Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:03 pm
- Forum: Photography Workshop
- Topic: Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta
- Replies: 0
- Views: 561
Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta
Adobe Lightroom 3 beta is available for download http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/ for those of you who would like to take it for a test drive. The program will expire on April 30, 2010.
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:56 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Re: Stock Market Game
Click on "make a trade" on the left
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:56 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Amazon
The market seems to think Amazon is worth 26% more than it was yesterday.
- Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:31 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX MI Train Location Update 10-20-09
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1135
Re: CSX MI Train Location Update 10-20-09
Freight heading west through Grandville at 11:20 am. Must be 327.
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:14 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Re: Stock Market Game
Railroadfan's favorite from last year's game, Conseco (CNO), is up 28% at noon today. I'm going to short it!
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:50 pm
- Forum: Photography Workshop
- Topic: Digital Backups?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4815
Re: Digital Backups?
A couple of months ago I had the same thing happen to me as Scooterb. Popups and redirects coming so fast that anything you do is too late. These attacks appear to be coming from rogue ads on the sites...NYTimes was hit a few weeks ago. There is no easy way to recover once you've been hit ...they re...
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:29 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Re: Stock Market Game
So far, I'm heading home.railroadfan wrote:Go big or go home!
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:12 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Re: Stock Market Game
I notice Railroadfan is going for his usual all or nothing approach.
- Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:15 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Stock Market Game
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6069
Re: Stock Market Game
You guys forget about the game already? Dow is down 200 today and you're all still at $100,000.
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:14 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Detroit and food
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1606
Re: Detroit and food
Believe you're forgetting Mary, Don. You remember her, known as "The Virgin"Don Simon wrote: Abstinence is best. It works every time without fail.
- Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:51 pm
- Forum: Web Site updates, questions, and suggestions
- Topic: Good inbox message
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6866
Re: Good inbox message
At least the guy spelled "Zack" correctly...not "Zak" or "Zach". He deserves some credit for that!