On the FXAll site I see that it is for Corporate Treasurers, which I guess you might have at your company. I'm not sure at which size or volume of trades you need to do in order to make going with a company like FXAll more economical. I looked on their liquidity provider page and it looks like HSBC is on there. You could also try looking at a different bank that will give you the features that you want.
Disclaimer: My employer is one of the FXAll liquidity providers.
If you're going to be transferring large amounts of money, sign up for a site like FXAll.com where banks will compete with each other and you can pick the best exchange rate for you. It's a market, no one institution is setting the rate. But the bank that you do the trade with will add a spread on the rate that they give you to cover the cost of doing the trade with you.
Someone associated with the big banks, acting for "The Fed", determines the interest rate that will be paid on savings. There are often news stories saying how brilliant he is for lowering the interest rate, which allows the banks higher income, and means that those who save money get less interest.
Huh? Banks determine the interest rate that they will pay you. It's on your monthly statement. If banks need more money, they'll offer a higher interest rate to entice people to transfer more money over to them. If you want a fixed rate, you need to get a CD, which will lock you into a rate. By using a savings account which you can withdraw from, you get less. Less risk (because your cash is liquid), less reward.
The interest rate you are talking about is the inter-bank lending rate, where banks will make very short term loans to each other (overnight, or a few days) so that they have the requisite amount of cash to meet the needs of their depositors. It doesn't always effect the rates at which you can lend at.
In response to your other gripes: IRAs) Don't invest in CDs. Put your money in managed funds that will get you better returns without you having to do all of the research. Credit Cards) Don't buy what you can't afford. It doesn't matter what interest rate you have on the card if you pay it off in full each month. Savings Accounts) Move your money out when the bank lowers the rate. Move it into something with a higher return if you can afford to have it be locked up for a while. Bank Representatives) Not sure what bank you're with that causes you think this, but it isn't true of all banks. Start shopping around a bit more.
I think the majority problem that people have with H1B visas is that the H1B visa holders end up working for less than a similarly skilled US worker would normally ask for. As a result it is seen as having their wages pushed down for those who are already here in that particular industry.
So, when you come over as an H1B, don't settle for a reduced wage. Find out how much they are paying for someone with your experience in the area and then ask for that.
Perhaps what we will see from this then is 2 flavors of Mac OS X. One that costs $1200 that you can install on any machine and get no support for, and one that costs $120 that you can install on Apple branded hardware. At least you'd be able to purchase it to use the way you wanted. Apple's OS is very much cheaper than MS Windows to purchase and I think the argument could be made that the hardware purchases subsidize the OS.
Entrapment in this sense is defined as: a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials
This guy had *already broken the law*, he did not break any laws by going to a fake job interview. He just wasn't very smart.
I actually like less better than tail -f. If you less a file, and then hit SHIFT-F it will tail the file, but you can break out of it and scroll around and search for terms. Very handy while looking at log files.
Most likely they have already lost your money if you have a 401k. Have you looked at your Gain/Loss percentage? Mine is down 20.1%. It *will* trickle down if it improves the markets and allows the value of your retirement fund to recover.
Good Grief! That phone costs over $500 without a contract (or $250 with a two year contract with T-Mobile). If you need a screenless cellphone that bad, buy a cheap nokia bar phone and put electrical tape on the screen.
That has *got* to be a joke.
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It's really not a two step process. The document can be saved in memory (as a few strings and byte arrays) and then just write it once as a compressed zip file. No need to do so much Disk I/O.
WalMart has taken idea #4 even further than pushing low cost health insurance for businesses and selling cheap meds. They are actually opening up clinics in 400 stores in the next 3 years, with plans to expand.
I believe the nightlies are actually compiled DLL's (or shared libraries, depending on which OS you are on). You can point the safari executable to use the nightly builds instead of the shipped build.
With that said, the nightlies can be buggy, leak, crash, etc. After all, it's just what the devs checked in the previous day and it hasn't really been fully tested.
I was just trying to make the point that the guts of Safari is open source, and that is where Apple puts it, it doesn't have a separate branch that it works on.
When I worked on WebKit, the source that was publicly available was the source that went into Safari after it's had been adequately tested. They don't have a super-secret version that they are adding their improvements to. The version they improve is the LGPL version.
In fact, you can go and download the nightly build of WebKit and use it with Safari (Safari is just a wrapper that provides the gui).
It turns out that the things that were so interesting before turned out to be a JPEG image of the album art and some meta data that iTunes uses to jump around in the song. They do mention that each song appears to be signed though.
Uhh, what are you talking about? Of course I'd protect my girlfriend. Protecting my girlfriend and torturing somebody are two *completely* different things. Are you sure you responded to the right post?
Why is my comment asinine? People can't feel ashamed that these radio talk-show hosts say hateful and disgusting things? I'm not ashamed of free speech, I'm ashamed to even be loosely associated with those hate-mongers.
So here, I'll speak out even more against them...
We, as Americans *should not* participate in torture. We *should not* dismember a person's genitals or chop off a finger because we think that they might have information useful to us. *Nobody* should do that. We *should not* talk about the gruesome sounds that a person makes while being executed. We should not wish that upon someone else, especially if the reason we are wishing it upon them is because they have a differing view!!!
I'm not going to leave this country and go to another. I've lived abroad before and I know that the USA is a great place to live exactly because of the freedoms that we have.
I think that this was handled correctly. The sponsors of the radio program were notified that this was some of the rhetoric that was used, and they pulled their funding. No governments getting involved, until of course Disney decided to sue the guy who told the sponsor and cost them the advertising money.
I listened to the radio commentary and had to stop before it finished. It's absolutely disgusting! I'm glad this guy did something about it.
Talking about chopping off fingers and genitals, talking about what it would sound like to have someone electrocuted. It's things like this that cause me to feel shame for being an American. We should be above this type of thought, and *certainly* above this type of action.
It's only necessary because MS implemented it poorly. If it required the admin password to be typed in, then it wouldn't really matter.
I'll just wait for the virus that continually attempts to access something protected by this to completely lock a user out of using their computer. Way to go MS!
I didn't realize that UAC dialog boxes were modal and prevented you from using the system. What is to stop some application from triggering "authentication" events every second so that it makes your computer unusable? That seems like a terrible design decision that you can't ignore those.
Oh, I agree that applications need to be more frugal when it comes to using memory. I'm just tired of people who complain about how a certain apps use more memory in new versions, when the programmer intentionally did that in order to improve performance or add some feature to the application.
Swapping to disk is very slow compared to caching something in memory. In older programs, it was often necessary to only have in memory what you were working on at that very moment in time.
There is a trade-off between performance and memory usage.
And $100/GB *is* cheap. I had to pay $300 for 8MB back in the day. To get a GB of ram at those prices would have cost me $38,400 (I'm sure glad I don't have to use my Pentium-60Mhz anymore..heh).
Don't know where you buy memory, but it looks like it's $100 for a GB of RAM (at newegg.com)
Look, if you want to run RAM hungry apps, you need to either purchase more memory, or open fewer apps at once. Or, I guess you could go back to using the apps that you were using a few years ago. I'm sure they'll run with the same, small memory footprint that you want them to.
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On the FXAll site I see that it is for Corporate Treasurers, which I guess you might have at your company. I'm not sure at which size or volume of trades you need to do in order to make going with a company like FXAll more economical. I looked on their liquidity provider page and it looks like HSBC is on there. You could also try looking at a different bank that will give you the features that you want.
Disclaimer: My employer is one of the FXAll liquidity providers.
If you're going to be transferring large amounts of money, sign up for a site like FXAll.com where banks will compete with each other and you can pick the best exchange rate for you. It's a market, no one institution is setting the rate. But the bank that you do the trade with will add a spread on the rate that they give you to cover the cost of doing the trade with you.
Huh? Banks determine the interest rate that they will pay you. It's on your monthly statement. If banks need more money, they'll offer a higher interest rate to entice people to transfer more money over to them. If you want a fixed rate, you need to get a CD, which will lock you into a rate. By using a savings account which you can withdraw from, you get less. Less risk (because your cash is liquid), less reward.
The interest rate you are talking about is the inter-bank lending rate, where banks will make very short term loans to each other (overnight, or a few days) so that they have the requisite amount of cash to meet the needs of their depositors. It doesn't always effect the rates at which you can lend at.
In response to your other gripes:
IRAs) Don't invest in CDs. Put your money in managed funds that will get you better returns without you having to do all of the research.
Credit Cards) Don't buy what you can't afford. It doesn't matter what interest rate you have on the card if you pay it off in full each month.
Savings Accounts) Move your money out when the bank lowers the rate. Move it into something with a higher return if you can afford to have it be locked up for a while.
Bank Representatives) Not sure what bank you're with that causes you think this, but it isn't true of all banks. Start shopping around a bit more.
I think the majority problem that people have with H1B visas is that the H1B visa holders end up working for less than a similarly skilled US worker would normally ask for. As a result it is seen as having their wages pushed down for those who are already here in that particular industry.
So, when you come over as an H1B, don't settle for a reduced wage. Find out how much they are paying for someone with your experience in the area and then ask for that.
Perhaps what we will see from this then is 2 flavors of Mac OS X. One that costs $1200 that you can install on any machine and get no support for, and one that costs $120 that you can install on Apple branded hardware. At least you'd be able to purchase it to use the way you wanted. Apple's OS is very much cheaper than MS Windows to purchase and I think the argument could be made that the hardware purchases subsidize the OS.
It is not borderline entrapment.
Entrapment in this sense is defined as: a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials
This guy had *already broken the law*, he did not break any laws by going to a fake job interview. He just wasn't very smart.
I actually like less better than tail -f. If you less a file, and then hit SHIFT-F it will tail the file, but you can break out of it and scroll around and search for terms. Very handy while looking at log files.
Yes, but some of the nifty new feature of the core i7 is the new interconnect and triple channel ram. It should have *a lot* of memory bandwidth.
Those laws never worked though. All of his stories were about how they failed in spectacular ways and the process of finding out why they went wrong.
Those laws also require an AI that doesn't exist. Maybe never will.
Most likely they have already lost your money if you have a 401k. Have you looked at your Gain/Loss percentage? Mine is down 20.1%. It *will* trickle down if it improves the markets and allows the value of your retirement fund to recover.
Good Grief! That phone costs over $500 without a contract (or $250 with a two year contract with T-Mobile). If you need a screenless cellphone that bad, buy a cheap nokia bar phone and put electrical tape on the screen.
That has *got* to be a joke.
It's really not a two step process. The document can be saved in memory (as a few strings and byte arrays) and then just write it once as a compressed zip file. No need to do so much Disk I/O.
WalMart has taken idea #4 even further than pushing low cost health insurance for businesses and selling cheap meds. They are actually opening up clinics in 400 stores in the next 3 years, with plans to expand.
http://www.walmartfacts.com/articles/4973.aspx
I noticed that the local Meijer is also starting to do this.
I believe the nightlies are actually compiled DLL's (or shared libraries, depending on which OS you are on). You can point the safari executable to use the nightly builds instead of the shipped build.
With that said, the nightlies can be buggy, leak, crash, etc. After all, it's just what the devs checked in the previous day and it hasn't really been fully tested.
I was just trying to make the point that the guts of Safari is open source, and that is where Apple puts it, it doesn't have a separate branch that it works on.
When I worked on WebKit, the source that was publicly available was the source that went into Safari after it's had been adequately tested. They don't have a super-secret version that they are adding their improvements to. The version they improve is the LGPL version.
In fact, you can go and download the nightly build of WebKit and use it with Safari (Safari is just a wrapper that provides the gui).
http://nightly.webkit.org/
Here you go!
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005292.php
It turns out that the things that were so interesting before turned out to be a JPEG image of the album art and some meta data that iTunes uses to jump around in the song. They do mention that each song appears to be signed though.
I hope nobody has windows (the physical, see-through kind, not the operating system)...
Uhh, what are you talking about? Of course I'd protect my girlfriend. Protecting my girlfriend and torturing somebody are two *completely* different things. Are you sure you responded to the right post?
Why is my comment asinine? People can't feel ashamed that these radio talk-show hosts say hateful and disgusting things? I'm not ashamed of free speech, I'm ashamed to even be loosely associated with those hate-mongers.
So here, I'll speak out even more against them...
We, as Americans *should not* participate in torture. We *should not* dismember a person's genitals or chop off a finger because we think that they might have information useful to us. *Nobody* should do that. We *should not* talk about the gruesome sounds that a person makes while being executed. We should not wish that upon someone else, especially if the reason we are wishing it upon them is because they have a differing view!!!
I'm not going to leave this country and go to another. I've lived abroad before and I know that the USA is a great place to live exactly because of the freedoms that we have.
I think that this was handled correctly. The sponsors of the radio program were notified that this was some of the rhetoric that was used, and they pulled their funding. No governments getting involved, until of course Disney decided to sue the guy who told the sponsor and cost them the advertising money.
I listened to the radio commentary and had to stop before it finished. It's absolutely disgusting! I'm glad this guy did something about it.
Talking about chopping off fingers and genitals, talking about what it would sound like to have someone electrocuted. It's things like this that cause me to feel shame for being an American. We should be above this type of thought, and *certainly* above this type of action.
It's only necessary because MS implemented it poorly. If it required the admin password to be typed in, then it wouldn't really matter.
I'll just wait for the virus that continually attempts to access something protected by this to completely lock a user out of using their computer. Way to go MS!
I'll stick with XP for my Windows needs.
I didn't realize that UAC dialog boxes were modal and prevented you from using the system. What is to stop some application from triggering "authentication" events every second so that it makes your computer unusable? That seems like a terrible design decision that you can't ignore those.
Oh, I agree that applications need to be more frugal when it comes to using memory. I'm just tired of people who complain about how a certain apps use more memory in new versions, when the programmer intentionally did that in order to improve performance or add some feature to the application.
Swapping to disk is very slow compared to caching something in memory. In older programs, it was often necessary to only have in memory what you were working on at that very moment in time.
There is a trade-off between performance and memory usage.
And $100/GB *is* cheap. I had to pay $300 for 8MB back in the day. To get a GB of ram at those prices would have cost me $38,400 (I'm sure glad I don't have to use my Pentium-60Mhz anymore..heh).
Don't know where you buy memory, but it looks like it's $100 for a GB of RAM (at newegg.com)
Look, if you want to run RAM hungry apps, you need to either purchase more memory, or open fewer apps at once. Or, I guess you could go back to using the apps that you were using a few years ago. I'm sure they'll run with the same, small memory footprint that you want them to.
Your reasoning is not correct by a few orders of magnitude. 600 x 8.5 = 5100 600 x 11 = 6600 6600 x 5100 = 33660000 dots per page