08-26-2011, 08:18 AM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary...Alberta, Canada
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I read somewhere that if you bought Apple stock when he took over in 1997 and sold when he resigned, you would have made 10,590% on your investment.
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
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08-26-2011, 08:21 AM
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#42
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by SebC
Legal, yes... cheap? Not really.
Look at Steam for a distribution platform that has drastically dropped prices through digital downloads. Sure, games cost the same as retail boxes initially, but nowadays you can get stuff like Mass Effect 2 for $5 if you catch a sale. Before digital distribution, it would maybe drop to $30 before you wouldn't find it in a store.
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It's usually cheaper to buy a whole album through iTunes than it is to buy it at any brick and mortar record store (if you're lucky enough to still find one out there). Left on their own, I suspect record companies would be charging more for music online than what we currently pay. I think Apple has done a pretty good job resisting the record companies demands and dictating the market in a more consumer-friendly direction.
Apple has done a lot to maintain a pretty decent minimum standard in several areas with their products. You can get better music players than an iPod but if it weren't for the popularity of Apple's music player, I don't know if the market would have been large enough for their to be an incentive to improve on that design. Same with tablets. The iPad wasn't the first and it isn't the best but it has basically created (or at least greatly expanded) the market. Now there's room for other innovators to make a better product or one that's aimed at a different segment of tablet users. There were online musics stores before ITMS and there are better ones now offering lower prices or higher quality music. If it weren't for Apple and ITMS driving online music sales into the mainstream, I don't know if we'd have those other/better options available today.
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08-26-2011, 08:23 AM
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#43
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Goon
I read somewhere that if you bought Apple stock when he took over in 1997 and sold when he resigned, you would have made 10,590% on your investment.
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sorta like this article/blog post. If you bought apple stock instead of its products. Pretty interesting.
http://kyleconroy.com/2010/04/apple-stock
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08-26-2011, 05:07 PM
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#44
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First Line Centre
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Jesus. That's sad.
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08-26-2011, 08:22 PM
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#45
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Apparently he has a very rare type of cancer
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/...nclick_check=1
With the news of Jobs and Layton, we shouldn't forget that millions of people suffer from cancer just the same way every day. It made me think twice about eating a piece of bacon and toast this morning. I realize I have more carcinogens in my diet than I really should.
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08-26-2011, 09:36 PM
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#46
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: blow me
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
Geez, TMZ has photos of him after resigning. They are pretty ghastly, seems even further along than Layton did at that press conference.
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08-26-2011, 09:44 PM
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#47
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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 That's really sad. I would have thought it photoshopped had not been for the news. He can't even stand up on his own.
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08-26-2011, 09:45 PM
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#48
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ALL ABOARD!
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I don't like that people are selling and publishing photos like these. I know he's a celebrity but let the man have a bit of privacy and respect for his final days.
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08-26-2011, 09:49 PM
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#49
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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I'm more upset that the photo is obviously fake. I mean, you're all taking something TMZ posted seriously, without any explanation as to its source? C'mon people.
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08-26-2011, 10:03 PM
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ALL ABOARD!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DownInFlames
I'm more upset that the photo is obviously fake. I mean, you're all taking something TMZ posted seriously, without any explanation as to its source? C'mon people.
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You can tell by some the pixels and seeing quite a few shops in your time?
TMZ probably paid 5 figures for those photos and they wouldn't risk the backlash of showing fake photos of a cancer patient, even though they're sketchy enough to post them in first place.
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08-26-2011, 10:28 PM
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#51
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Quote:
Originally Posted by username
Beatport does this already. 2.49 for a new song & then the price drops after it's been out for a few weeks.
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Thanks, but 2.49 a song? Yikes.
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08-26-2011, 11:02 PM
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#52
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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Originally Posted by KTrain
You can tell by some the pixels and seeing quite a few shops in your time?
TMZ probably paid 5 figures for those photos and they wouldn't risk the backlash of showing fake photos of a cancer patient, even though they're sketchy enough to post them in first place.
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Ok, maybe the photo is legit. We know he must be quite ill. He wouldn't have resigned if he was even remotely able to continue as CEO. But it bothers me that people accept an unsourced photo from a sleazy tabloid without questioning it. Or maybe I'm the crazy one, and TMZ has become a credible news organization while I wasn't paying attention to them.
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08-26-2011, 11:29 PM
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#53
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KTrain
I don't like that people are selling and publishing photos like these. I know he's a celebrity but let the man have a bit of privacy and respect for his final days.
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Agreed. I felt really ####ty when I first saw them (and curiosity drove me to take a peak) and I--and I;m sure my family--wouldn't like it if photos of me near death were floating around.
TMZ doesn't make the world a better place in any way, shape or form. They are pure garbage.
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08-26-2011, 11:59 PM
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#54
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
Or maybe I'm the crazy one, and TMZ has become a credible news organization while I wasn't paying attention to them.
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TMZ is a credible "news" organization. They're pure exhibitionist ... but they don't make stuff up.
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08-27-2011, 12:03 AM
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#55
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: still in edmonton
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Those photos of Jobs are hard for me to look at. It's my recently deceased family member all over again.
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08-27-2011, 10:22 AM
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#57
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Franchise Player
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Wow those pics are disturbing. I figured with the amount of effort and time he put into Apple that he would have to be near his deathbed to stand down as CEO, and unfortunately, it looks like that was true.
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08-27-2011, 01:49 PM
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#58
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
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Look at Jack Layton from his victory in May to his July announcement.
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08-27-2011, 06:00 PM
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#59
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
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Even here is he fighting for his breath, and is a shell of his normal charismatic self. The council member fan-boy who whipped out his iPad is a loser
Those pictures are just sad, cancer is a bitch.
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