Which is why a recent conversation on Twitter between Zen Studios, makers of Pinball FX 2, and Archer Production Designer and Director Neil Holloman is the kind of thing that makes my ears perk up.

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Of the three approaches, methods 1 and 3, using currency shares and empirics respectively to adjust for currency valuation effects, result in robust relationships between changes in currency-adjusted FX reserves and the BOP surplus, whereas method 2 using forex purchases as an alternative proxy for adjusted FX reserves is inferior.

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The new chipset integrates NVIDIA's nForce 680a SLI chipset with AMD's fresh Athlon 64 FX-70 dual-core processors to great effect, with clock speeds hitting 2.6, 2.8 and 3.0GHz for the FX-70, FX-72 and FX-74 processors.

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The J PC runs a Core 2 Duo or Athlon 64 FX, Windows Vista Ultimate, 8GB of DRAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB of RAM, 2TB of 7, 200 SATA storage, Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and plenty more trimmings like a 7-inch built-in screen, TV tuner and 7.1-channel sound.

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One graph (shown after the break) has an FX-74 gobbling what looks like near double the juice of a Core 2 Extreme QX6700 chip for comparable (or lesser) performance values.

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One of the key characteristics of FX is the inherrent volatility, as any news item, political or economic can have an impact on at least 2 currencies, i.e. the currency pair, but also on the cross relationships.

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