I'm in med school and I was waiting for the ipad mini exactly for this reason. I'll get it just before I start my clinical rotations. Do most hospitals now have free wifi throughout the hospital? If not, I'll have to get one with 3g cellular.
A problem with text communication is that sarcasm and mockery gets confused for being defensive. Sometimes sarcasm and mockery is a defense mechanism, but I just laughed.
Haters calling Apple products toys is part of a defense mechanism to minimize and rationalize away Apple's successes.
Apple's movements are often exaggerated versions of what we see on the NASDAQ index. Some of that is because Apple is in the index, but rarely does Apple go down without other stock also going down too. The DJIA is down too. Most of the tech stock I'm watching is down. Google is up by a tiny sliver though.
JeffDM - if you check a year of stock values, Apple is up by around $180ish and Google is up by about $90. I suspect you are right - it is the market not just Apple.
JeffDM - if you check a year of stock values, Apple is up by around $180ish and Google is up by about $90. I suspect you are right - it is the market not just Apple.
At that moment, I meant over a much shorter period of time, a day or two. I think it would be better for everyone if they looked at things over a longer time period a lot more often though.
A common comment that people make is "Apple did X yesterday, that is why they're down today" while completely missing all external influences. This is why I made that previous reply. It is called a post hoc ergo propter hoc argument, and it's a logical fallacy. I will specifically note that amoradala did not make this kind of comment, but I made a note to help clarify a commonly comment.
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I'm in med school and I was waiting for the ipad mini exactly for this reason. I'll get it just before I start my clinical rotations. Do most hospitals now have free wifi throughout the hospital? If not, I'll have to get one with 3g cellular.
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Originally Posted by JeffDM
A problem with text communication is that sarcasm and mockery gets confused for being defensive. Sometimes sarcasm and mockery is a defense mechanism, but I just laughed.
Haters calling Apple products toys is part of a defense mechanism to minimize and rationalize away Apple's successes.
Apple's movements are often exaggerated versions of what we see on the NASDAQ index. Some of that is because Apple is in the index, but rarely does Apple go down without other stock also going down too. The DJIA is down too. Most of the tech stock I'm watching is down. Google is up by a tiny sliver though.
JeffDM - if you check a year of stock values, Apple is up by around $180ish and Google is up by about $90. I suspect you are right - it is the market not just Apple.
At that moment, I meant over a much shorter period of time, a day or two. I think it would be better for everyone if they looked at things over a longer time period a lot more often though.
A common comment that people make is "Apple did X yesterday, that is why they're down today" while completely missing all external influences. This is why I made that previous reply. It is called a post hoc ergo propter hoc argument, and it's a logical fallacy. I will specifically note that amoradala did not make this kind of comment, but I made a note to help clarify a commonly comment.
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