Due to the spreads on eagle coins and the rationing of supply from the US Mint, being able to buy at US Mint prices is a license to print money at no risk.
http://usmint.gov/consumer/index.cfm?action=AmericanEagles
Be an experienced and established market-maker in gold/platinum and/or silver bullion coins.
Provide a liquid two-way market for the coins.
Be audited annually by an internationally-accepted accounted firm.
Have an established broad base of retail customer base in which to distribute the coins.
Have a tangible net worth of $50 million for Gold and Platinum Eagles, and $5 million for Silver Eagles. This requirement may be met using letter of credit.
Have sold over 100,000 ounces of gold bullion coins over any twelve-month period since 1990. (This criterion is for becoming a United States Mint Authorized Purchaser of gold bullion.)
For the Silver Eagle, we charge the United States Mint's Authorized Purchasers the price of silver plus $1.50 per coin premium. Minimum ordering requirement is 25,000 coins.
For the Gold Eagles, we charge 3%, 5%, 7% and 9% premiums for the one, one-half, one-quarter and one-tenth ounce coins respectively. Minimum ordering requirements are 1000 ounces.
For the Platinum Eagles, we charge 4%, 6%, 10% and 15% premiums for the one, one-half, one-quarter and one-tenth ounces coins respectively. Minimum ordering requirements are 1000 ounces.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Email Management
Away Find provides email management such as routing by priority and templates for different types of downtime (vacation). The service is touted as allowing people to control email.
FREE / $7month / $50year
FREE / $7month / $50year
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Jam GPS Signal
Would potentially interfere with many devices, including cell phones with GPS receivers. Would likely be illegal except for goverenment.
Any signal can be jammed, and the smaller the area the more practical the jamming. Build a device to transmit on the following frequencies.
Frequency information
For the ranging codes and navigation message to travel from the satellite to the receiver, they must be modulated onto a carrier frequency. In the case of the original GPS design, two frequencies are utilized; one at 1575.42 MHz (10.23 MHz × 154) called L1; and a second at 1227.60 MHz (10.23 MHz × 120), called L2.
The C/A code is transmitted on the L1 frequency as a 1.023 MHz signal using a Bi-Phase Shift Key (BPSK) modulation technique. The P(Y)-code is transmitted on both the L1 and L2 frequencies as a 10.23 MHz signal using the same BPSK modulation, however the P(Y)-code carrier is in quadrature with the C/A carrier; meaning it is 90° out of phase.
Any signal can be jammed, and the smaller the area the more practical the jamming. Build a device to transmit on the following frequencies.
Frequency information
For the ranging codes and navigation message to travel from the satellite to the receiver, they must be modulated onto a carrier frequency. In the case of the original GPS design, two frequencies are utilized; one at 1575.42 MHz (10.23 MHz × 154) called L1; and a second at 1227.60 MHz (10.23 MHz × 120), called L2.
The C/A code is transmitted on the L1 frequency as a 1.023 MHz signal using a Bi-Phase Shift Key (BPSK) modulation technique. The P(Y)-code is transmitted on both the L1 and L2 frequencies as a 10.23 MHz signal using the same BPSK modulation, however the P(Y)-code carrier is in quadrature with the C/A carrier; meaning it is 90° out of phase.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Website Performance Testing
Hosted and/or hardware-based performance testing.
These two have a heavy focus on Rails:
http://www.fiveruns.com/products $40/month
http://newrelic.com/features.html FREE,$40,$85,$200
These two have a heavy focus on Rails:
http://www.fiveruns.com/products $40/month
http://newrelic.com/features.html FREE,$40,$85,$200
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