Just came back from England yesterday.

You mean those weren't prices in dollars on all those tags?

:doh:

:damn:

That is exactly what will happen. It will also prevent any further jobs from leaving. THe dollar is way upset against almost every other currency too.

I heard it's training is very good.

Maybe not, but then again who says that the workers in those dollar a day countries will put up with slave wages forever?

As far as I know, Junior still runs under the Fritz GUI. and it is not the engine, but the GUI that offers the user any helping tools, training possebilities, etc. As I said, my hiracs 10 engine runs under Fritz 9 GUI, your Friotz 10 engine runs with the GUI one version higher. I would be surpsied to learnt hat junior offers you any functionality that you do not already have with Fritz 10.

P.S. I just checked it and I am sure: Junior is still distributed by Chessbase, and 10 is the latest version. You do not get anything more in functionality than what you already have with Fritz 10. As a matter of fact, Junior 10 comes with either the Fritz 9 or Fritz 10 GUI. - Save your money!

I thought the British pound's value was based on silver ... I know USA's was and now it's not, but the pound has always been like between $2, $2.25, $2.50 to me.

Speaking of things going up, have you seen the price of groceries lately? The sale price is now what the regular price use to be and that's just this year.

I have too! Groceries are through the roof! Crazy.

And you can bet your bottom dollar it's not the farmers making the money either.

Fuel costs isn't it. Corn products also because of Bio-Fuel. I have heard that because of the low numbers of brown cow's being born that chocolate milk is going to skyrocket.

Not Chocolate Milk! Noooooooooooooooooooo! :D

Time to join the Chocklam religion. :D

Not anymore. The British Pound, just like every other currency on the planet is today a fiat currency. The name "Pound Sterling" is nothing more than an anachronism, and was long before it became a fiat currency (In 1816, it was moved from silver to the gold standard, and finally became a fiat currency after World War I)