Stock Market Thread

[ScottyB]

If you get a RainMachine, or something of that nature, as a controller it will only water according to the rainfall (i.e. if it predicts rain later in the day it will not run and/or if it predicts some rain later it will water less than normal). Pretty neat, saved a bunch at my mom's house in water.

that's a really good point i forgot about. we have a RainBird system that has lots of custom scheduling options but no sensor. i guess as long as you can set the rainfall threshold so it doesn't run too much you would be set so that you don't burn up your water bill

stuff

all good points that make sense. i completely forgot about their weird auto industry ramp-up too, which also seems to be ambitious but rubbish.

what you said about 10% of their sales being computers aligns with other industry comments i've heard, which pretty much confirms that their more profit-driven structure is now so hungry for continued domain over the fast-cycling mobile/tablet market that they're neglecting the core computer features as a result...which points to more nefarious issues within the nature of the whole company