I am a student experimenting with an process which takes advantage of margins on precious metal & base metal price combined with currency fluctuations at the same time (along the lines of buying metals in various currencies subject to the strength of a particular currency). Too much detail to get into here and it is a school project right now.

And this brings me to my question…I discovered a site http://precious-metal-prices.org thatcontains precious metal price charts and base metal price charts in 11 currencies, it is free and very easy to use, but the charts are not live (close, but the charts only update data on page load). I need tofind a software product for live metal prices like those on the website I noted above,preferably in a desktop version (not browser based). Even better, would be 1 with XML feeds or ?, but I don’t need this right now.

Does anyone know where I may find live metal price charts like thosenoted in the website above? Preferably free or cheap because I am student and not able to afford much while I am developing this idea.

Mike

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Plus, there’s Jenna’s Wicked Weapon superhero comic, based on a huge-budget adult action film of the same name that was one of the top-selling videos (and comics) of the ’90s. At the time, she did promotional appearances at adult book stores for her comic, turning countless adult fans onto comic books who might otherwise never have been interested in comics.

One of Jenna’s comic promos at Fairhaven Video in Florida attracted almost 1,000 people and landed her on several local and national news spots – promoting comic books! Jenna’s Wicked Weapon comic is STILL in print, over ten years later. The original video release had a bound-in Wicked Weapon comic book. The later DVD release included a full color semi-animated comic book feature, where viewers could switch back and forth between the live action film and related comic book scenes. Wicked Weapon won a bunch of adult film industry awards, including – most notably for comic fans – a “Best Marketing” award, due to the innovative comic book tie-ins.

All told, it’s entirely possible that more people have bought Jenna Jameson comic books than any other female-created comic of the past decade-plus. The Carnal Comics line itself has over a million comic books in print, having been the top-selling adults-only comic books in industry history. Carnal’s main artist for a long time was a woman, Fauve, aka Holly GoLightly of Broadsword Comics, as was their art director Heather Dawn, cover painter Michaela Tomassini, etc. Jenna has every right to be on the comic-con panel, including/especially one about women comic creators, no matter how silly and mildly demeaning the language of the panel announcement.

Some of you may not like Jenna, or adult comics in general, but the truth is that both have drawn tens of thousands of people into buying comic books who otherwise wouldn’t be interested —- the same thing may happen with Shadow Hunter. Speaking on behalf of Jenna, who I worked with on her comic books (the ones pre-dating Shadow Hunter, anyway), “You’re welcome.”

I would be outraged at lumping Frank Miller and Alan Moore together!
… Frank Miller and Ron Jeremy sound about right, though. Jenna would round out that panel nicely!

Eh, I doubt she’ll really add much to the panel aside from the “omg jenna jameson/porn star!” novelty. From what I’ve seen of her talking about comics she has little of interest to say, and from what I’ve seen of her comic’s previews it looks like a disjointed spawn/witchblade knockoff. D:

And it’s sad to see that panels like this tend to segregate by gender rather than saying, “Hey! Here are some kickass creators, so get off your ass and hear what they have to say!” In my experience as both a comics fan and a pro, I’ve found that there is little if any difference in what male and female creators put on paper, the success of the results coming down to the individual’s talent. When I read the work of Gail Simone I don’t think, “Wow! Gail Simone sure writes good comics…for a woman,” and instead think, “Wow! Gail Simone is one hell of a writer,” and I feel that’s the kind of thinking that should go into creating a lineup for a convention panel/forum. Showcase the people with the talent and creativity and leave the gender bullshit out of it. It’s 2008, people, we should be past this by now.

hmmm … nothing?

I wouldn’t be so sure. Guys in general are able to enjoy things for the train wrecks they can become. However if you put Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Stan Lee and Ron bloody Jeremy on a panel together, do you really think all of Dork-dom wouldn’t blow up the internet in an outrage?

We all know how they get when FICTIONAL CHARACTERS are messed with. What would happen when someone messes with their legendary creators by putting them on a panel with a novice writer with a porn film background?

Seriously, the “Girls Who Kick Ass” panel is silly enough on its own merits. I don’t see why it had to become a gender studies issue.

Sadly, it is unfortunate that even in the comments section, old fashioned sexism is still alive and well.

If Ron Jeremy suddenly got into comics and wanted to talk about comics in a panel, even if he were alongside Frank Miller or Joe Quesada, I’m sure guys would be more accepting.

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good.

Panels about being a woman in a male dominated industry

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possibly good. Depends on how male dominated the industry really is and if the topic is more specifically advice for female creators (good) or because the conference people figure if they give the ladies a place to vent, they won’t bring the topic up elsewhere (bad, duh).

Panels that confuse these two topics and/or assume that only women have something to say about the former (and possibly implying that women don’t have anything to add to other topics)

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bad, very bad.

Panels that completely miss the point and think that women don’t read comics, that they only sometimes make them

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so bad someone needs to be sentenced to several decades of only being allowed to read such gems as Marmeduke and Family Circus.