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As an engineer, my bosses are constantly telling me to separate the commercial side of a project from the technical. No Can Do most of the time.... But maybe the fact that Verizon is spending thousands on each installation in Suburbia is a non-issue. I'll let them think about it. I love my...

As the above posts state, a lot depends on the curtural background of an area. In Europe, often the equivalent of a theocracy existed for hundreds of years. Depending on "expectations" this may or may not resulted in maximum "happiness" but certainly did not and does not and will not result...

When I was studying ChE at Lehigh in Pa in the '60s, the local angst included the loss of Scranton's shoe industry to Korea. Today I don't think you could afford to make normal shoes in Korea. When Peak Oil occured in 1970 in the US, I was about to vote for Carter because he was a graduate...

I THINK... Ameritrade simply can't afford to provide the attention and devotion that Jerry Medved & Co applied to that support channel...

I've used both. IDEALPRO is a cheaper bet, but base currency amount must be $25,000 or more. One of my IB accounts is Universal, and conversions to other currencies are done automatically. I haven't checked the rate, but it's small enough it would not change the trade risk calculations...

If you think on the Fast Fourier Transform, it seeks to resolve the individual cycles that make up the whole. It's success depends on how regular and how long-repeating the individual components are. From your discussion, it sounds like currency fluctuations might be the sum of individual...

Yesterday I downloaded and installed Opera Mini on my plain-jane LG cell phone. Significant improvement over Cingular's built-in browser. Almost makes web surfing on a postage-stamp-sized screen possible. http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/campaign/ But I cannot find a site...

I have to explain this to non-engineers all the time. Professors just confuse 'em. Think of a closed bottle. It contains some matter that is hot, and some that is cold. Relative to a heat engine in the bottle, we normally think of the "hot" matter as being more able to make the heat...

...where social studies majors fear to tread. Really, now. Philosophers have for years attempted to draw a parallel between negative and positive entropy and good and evil. No algorithm, simply a simile or analogy. Like describing trading as a tug of war with the knot in the middle of...

I'd like to report success with Verizon FIOS, but..... A neighbor 4 doors down had a little flag next to drive (paraphrase)"We've got FIOS!" about two months ago. Verizon automatic availability still denies it is available on my street. Called Engineering twice, no response yet. Lots...

Try http://www.fioslive.com/

Just a follow-up... Is the FIOS in, and working? I have RR and it drops out sometimes 1/wk sometimes 3x/hr and the main lines have been replaced several times. I'm also considering Verizon FIOS.

Don't forget Monarch Computers. They base their business on satisfied customers. I just bought a workstation from them with no issues, good price. I think they will be around for awhile. For the less conservative, find a local shop that does most of it's business with local banks, small...

What would be your choice as a US-based investor with access to both TSE or NYSE for Cameco? I note that CCJ appeared to appreciate a little more at the end of the week even tho the Canadian dollar strengthened on average. The variations between prices appear to be currency fluctuations as...

Best comment in thread. By the way, I have had many Engineers reporting to me over the years, and it is true- few can express themselves well - I try not to post if I don't have anything to add -- and I certainly don't here.

almost missed this thread... actually, anyone's success is largely how they deal with uncertainty. Some engineers do it well, some don't. my specialty, Chemical Process Engineering, has some adherents that model and calculate, and at the other end of the spectrum, that do curve-fitting...

Correlations come and go (improve and dissipate). The real question is can they be found in real time: 1) with long enough existence to profit...and 2) can they be anticipated beforehand, as in "70% of the time rrr has a correlation index of .45 (great for raw data) with sss and a lag...

For 'correlation' read 'herd mentality.' We're trying to anticipate where the herd is heading, or will head next. Obviously, at a turning point emotions prevail. I wonder if the consensus improves or weakens? Yes, that should show up in a change in correlation index. I am looking for...

Look at http://www.prophet.net/explore/default.jsp It's far from free but is real-time: Acording to this page, "ProphetScan gives you immediate access to scans based on the most recent market data available and provides an easy-to-use wizard to make building your scan criteria fast and...

Troy Milhase wrote a set of Python modules for accessing Interactive Broker's feeds. It triggered a background project for me to learn Python programing. I am especially interested in Troy's charting in Python, but i cannot say I have them running yet--a fur piece to go for an old man...:cool...