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Canon just announced they will stop development of film cameras, and Nikon has already announced this before. Goodbye film in mass use, large format (think fashion shoots, portraits, art) extinction will follow later when technology matures. Those millions of chinese and indians really will...

Few traders are disappointed with Oanda. If you outgrow their $10M single trade limitation, good for you!

Photography accounts for 1/3 of industrial silver usage but with the advent of digital cameras the whole field is about to die away. As it is the industrial use that supported silver on the $4-5 level for years this might mean bad news for long term silver unless it manages to do the value...

Sometimes is just happens so that if you go with the right provider with a large enough network you can traffic all through inside their network and avoid a large lot of common connectivity problems which plague consumer grade systems optimized for consumer surfing. It pays to find out who...

Depositing your money with the guy who lives in a van down by the river is also a good option, at least you get a drinking buddy and you know one place where he was for real, unlike anonymous post boxes, rented servers and anonymized tax havens spread all around the globe so that you'll never...

A quality internet connection will do more wonders to one's trading than all the best hardware. Get a business grade connection with guaranteed packet delivery and maximum latency. Try going multihomed with at least two separate connections from two different ISP's.

Please do remember that even if you are running just a single program it doesn't mean that is all your computer is running. There is the whole load of the actual operating system and its services and device drivers. You might not realize these are executable code and thus load on your cpu...

Compared to forex gold volatility is extreme, three 3000 pip/cent days in last week and today 2000 pips in late asian session.

Oanda offers accounts in USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD, or JPY. Moreover you can have subaccounts in other currencies and move money between them. The platform works like a thought so it's easy to concentrate on making money. You won't overgrow Oanda's offerings until you start repeatedly...

In my message above, where it reads "where mean net worth" there should absolutely read "median" not "mean" sorry I was not concentrating on my typing. Kind of renders the point intended useless when I can't hold my thoughts together. Was intending to polarize median vs average because median...

Dear Nana please re-read my post you misunderstood everything. The 90 day cool off period is for applying for a new visa after your old one has expired. When you make a visa run with a multiple entry tourist visa you are not applying for a new visa, you are just using your existing visa...

This is more a discussion of median vs average (mean) than anything else. In year 2000, when mean net worth of an American family was $55,000, the average net worth was $182,381 (in year 2000 dollars). Extrapolating from that, with mean net worth of $93,100 the average net worth would be...

Nana, if you get a longer visa than 60 days it's no longer a tourist visa per Thai classification unless it's a multiple entry visa which can be 3x60 but you still need to make the border run. I agree it's not that much of a chore only every 2 months. Yes the 90 day delay period between...

It would be helpful if you could find out the median net worth as it can be a significantly different value than average due to the way how wealth is often stacked to a very small rich minority. For example, if there are 9 people with net worth 1000 and 1 with 1 billion, their average net...

DeepMarket what is it that you want to accomplish? Java supports threads natively across all platforms.

ElectricSavant, if your application is single threaded it can at max use one core to itself and no more. But the other core will still be busy running operating system tasks and device drivers (and possibly other programs) at the same time. True performance lack with a single threaded...

I call BS on the 6 month Thai tourist visa, in reality it's either 30 days on-arrival or 60 days with a visa with possibility to extend 30 days more. If you've had a 60 day visa you will not get a new one for another 90 days. This means that sooner or later you have to start visa runs to the...

The motherboard chipset most definately does not do anything related to job control, cpu wise it only assigns external interrupts to the processor system bus, where in a multicpu environment the cpus communicate with each other with interprocessor interrupts between the local APICs (advanced...

The little I think I know of Windows programming is that if the threads are created properly it should be upto Windows to delegate threads to all available cpus. The hardware side, chipset etc, has no say in this. It's all about how to operating system software decides/chooses to use the...

If the app is single threaded, yes the other chip will be idle from that apps point of view. But you do have lots of other processes (os components, device drivers etc) running on your computer at any given time , so the other cpu is not wasted. How delegating programs (processes, threads) is...