Be very, very careful with expungement. The rules are intricate and vary from state to state. They permit you answer "no" to certain questions,...
Yes. Any modern OS uses uncommitted memory as a filesystem buffer cache. "Free" memory is very useful in making your system perform better,...
Quote from winter: The original question was will more memory help with a heavy processor load. It's very easy to misdiagnose an IO problem...
Chiguy... I think you had the right impulse to get more memory. I suspect that you are IO bound. Swapping slows down your computer to the speed of...
You neglect to mention that this is a 30% increase in their oil price target. That's hardly bearish news for oil. Martin
FYI, you can buy fractional shares at FOLIOfn, www.foliofn.com. You could buy $10 worth of Berkshire Hathaway if you really wanted to. It's also a...
The Brazilians are very successful producing ethanol from sugar as a transporation fuel. Their total costs are under $1/gallon. Corn is a much...
Do you value a company based on what you hope they might be able to do, or what they have actually demonstrated an ability to do? Other than...
Our natural gas production is still significantly constrained by damage in the Gulf. In a normal year, demand suprises such as cold weather could...
Are you looking for truly automated execution, or a program to backtest strategies, or something to alert you to entry points? If you want...
Google's internal controls and forecasting are not particularly sophisticated. The rumor in the valley is that last quarter's results pretty much...
I'm not. You assert that if rates were higher, deficits would be higher. That is only the case if you assume that government fiscal policy is...
What makes you think that? Governments respond to the same incentives that anyone else does. When borrowing is cheap, borrow more. Martin
Accomodative monetary policy lowers interest rates, hence encouraging high levels of personal and corporate debt. It is hardly a coincidence that...
No. You're wrong. It is possible for small traders to systematically, consistently beat the market year in and year out. The key to results like...
I agree that active mutual fund managers don't generally earn their keep. The evidence is increasingly that hedge fund managers as a group don't...
I'm not even sure what your point is, or if you have one. As far as I can tell, all you are saying is that some market participants are smart,...
Well, Xerox makes money. TiVo doesn't. TiVo's mentioned on TV all the time, for the last 5 years. Letterman, Jon Stewart, Friends, Sex and the...
That would make it one of the biggest companies in the world, far more valuble than any media company, more valuble than Microsoft is today, much...
Not always. Consider TiVo. Martin
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