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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Re: WTF -- Plumbing Part Materializes out of the ether??!!? -- A little help please!
« on: July 18, 2012, 12:21:28 AM »
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Some dimensional data and photo of the bottom orifice would help. I have extensive experience with installing dishwashers and cloth washers and this is not apart of those appliances. It is not a pressure relief valve that you will typically see on hot water heaters. I don't know if you have a local unit water heater or steam / hot water heating system from a central building boiler. It resembles a shock absorber / anti-knock assembly that I have installed in situations where there are high water pressures and flow rates that can cause a pipe banging sound when you flush a toilet or shut off a faucet. I am not sure the KABOOM is related to this part. If you lost this part in your plumbing system, you would be in deep in water. |
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Water Cooler / MarketWatch / MarketWatch 12.05.04 - How did Samsung win in mobile phones?
« on: May 04, 2012, 01:05:23 PM »
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MarketWatch With John C. Dvorak - 12.05.04
© 2010 John C. Dvorak's Cage Match
From Dow Jones
Handset maker has been experimenting since iPhone
Watching the mobile-phone makers fight it out in the marketplace is like watching boxing. You never know where a knockout punch will come from, or when.
Samsung, according to market-research reports, has overtaken Nokia Corp. as the No. 1 handset company in the world. This may be a knockout. Nokia is definitely on the ground, and there are no obvious instances of a handset maker ever regaining the top spot once knocked off.
So how did Samsung do it?
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Water Cooler / MarketWatch / MarketWatch 12.04.20 - Google vs. Oracle: Round one
« on: April 20, 2012, 03:25:07 PM »
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MarketWatch With John C. Dvorak - 12.04.20
© 2010 John C. Dvorak's Cage Match
From Dow Jones
Oracle just wants a ‘taste’ of Android market
There seems to be a lot of concern for the future of Android, as the Oracle Corp. vs. Google Inc. lawsuit appears to threaten the phone and tablet OS.
Google has too much riding on the Android OS to allow any legal action to damage its position, so this is a non-trivial case for Google.
In the case of Oracle, you get the sense that the company believes that it can cause some trouble for Google so it hired superlawyer David Boies to represent Oracle. I found this interesting.
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Water Cooler / MarketWatch / MarketWatch 12.04.13 - Close the cafes, sell the jets
« on: April 13, 2012, 07:04:24 PM »
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MarketWatch With John C. Dvorak - 12.04.13
© 2010 John C. Dvorak's Cage Match
From Dow Jones
How the search giant can return to its roots
Larry Page is in the news for his chatter about how Google Inc. is going to simplify and act like a start-up.
We’ve all heard this nonsense before from multi-billion dollar companies. They are suddenly going to act like start-ups.
I wonder about this. Why do companies do this? Why would they want to act like a start-up? Is it romantic? Sentimental? I’ll tell you what it is: foolish.
What company wants to act like a start-up unless they are a start-up?
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Water Cooler / MarketWatch / MarketWatch 12.04.06 - What are the threats to Facebook?
« on: April 06, 2012, 03:17:56 PM »
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MarketWatch With John C. Dvorak - 12.04.06
© 2010 John C. Dvorak's Cage Match
From Dow Jones
Broader issue is if the Internet could be brought down
Everyone who is anyone wants some action in the upcoming IPO of Facebook Inc. This is despite the fact that nobody really understands Facebook, or what is actually a threat to its business.
I write this after reading various speculative articles about new services such as Pinterest, thought to be some sort of challenge to Facebook. People do not understand how easy it would be for Facebook to add a Pinterest-like feature to Facebook itself, or to embrace Pinterest in any number of ways. (You might want to do a little research on Pinterest to see what it is about, since it appears to be taking the Internet by storm. But I digress.)
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Water Cooler / MarketWatch / MarketWatch 12.03.30 - RIM’s bleak future
« on: March 30, 2012, 03:22:09 PM »
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MarketWatch With John C. Dvorak - 12.03.30
© 2010 John C. Dvorak's Cage Match
From Dow Jones
If you buy on bad news, this is your chance
How can a company that was a recent high-flyer be in such sad shape today?
This mess was five years in development and the company now appears to be in complete disarray.
Let’s cut to the chase about Research In Motion Ltd., its only hope is to be bought by Microsoft Corp. then allowed to fail using Microsoft money. That would work out for investors since they’d be out of the stock and no longer be fretting about the future of the company.
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Water Cooler / MarketWatch / MarketWatch 12.03.16 - Buyout candidates for TV over the Internet
« on: March 16, 2012, 03:03:24 PM »
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MarketWatch With John C. Dvorak - 12.03.16
© 2010 John C. Dvorak's Cage Match
From Dow Jones
New capabilities are needed to make IPTV work
It’s been a while since Cisco Systems Inc. went on a buying spree, but its recent purchase of a specialist in digital pay-TV and video indicates the company may be coming out of hibernation. Like a bear, it could be very, very hungry.
The thing to note about the firm Cisco CSCO purchased for $5 billion, NDS Group, is that it is focused on digital delivery — via Internet fiber, DSL and cable modem. Video over these systems is done differently than analog cable or over-the-air broadcasting, now referred to as OTA.
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Water Cooler / MarketWatch / MarketWatch 12.03.09 - Tech sector upgrade cycle is at risk
« on: March 09, 2012, 03:56:40 PM »
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MarketWatch With John C. Dvorak - 12.03.09
© 2010 John C. Dvorak's Cage Match
From Dow Jones
Saving money trumps the latest bells and whistles
Some months back I told people to avoid the technology sector until the economy straightens itself out. And this appears to be a slow process.
So the tech sector has decided to ignore the economy and move ahead, with companies like Microsoft Corp. finally selling for over $30 and Intel and others also on the march.
There are always two things about tech that should be noted, especially the computer and networking component.
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Water Cooler / MarketWatch / MarketWatch 12.03.02 - Yelp help, post-IPO
« on: March 02, 2012, 03:03:53 PM »
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MarketWatch With John C. Dvorak - 12.03.02
© 2010 John C. Dvorak's Cage Match
From Dow Jones
Review site has the potential to be a money machine
For those of you unfamiliar with the Yelp Inc. website, let me explain why it is different than any review site designed so far. The questions investors have to ask is can it be cloned by competitors, or improved by the company itself.
Yelp is one of the most useful review sites because it allows you to scope out businesses, mostly restaurants, in advance of a visit or purchase by reading reports from the public. These reviews are skewed, since they are from all kinds of people, but the ability to examine other reviews by the same contributors allows for some insight into their overall quality or reliability. That’s the key.
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Water Cooler / MarketWatch / MarketWatch 12.02.10 - Kodak cameras RIP
« on: February 10, 2012, 06:17:08 PM »
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MarketWatch With John C. Dvorak - 12.02.10
© 2010 John C. Dvorak's Cage Match
From Dow Jones
Company made some of the most user-friendly devices
There is something doubly ironic about Eastman Kodak Co. giving up in the digital-camera business.
The first irony stems from the fact that Kodak actually invented the first digital camera (in 1975, based on ideas from Texas Instruments Inc. three years earlier) and never took it seriously enough. The second is that today’s point-and-shoot technologies harken back to the Kodak Brownie, the first mass-market, easy-to-use film camera.
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