I'm travelling to Thailand in September and would like to know if is it better for me to change money here in Australia before I go or when I get to the airport in Bangkok.  If here where would be the best place to get better value?
Where can I get more favourable exchange rate, in general?changing baht to Canadian dollars in Thailand or Canada or make a bank transfer to my Canadian account
Unusual placing of a second impression of a USA visa immigration stamp. Does it mean anything? My parents traveled to the USA a couple of weeks ago (Caracas - Miami). It wasn't their first time; they've probably come and gone a dozen times by now, and they've never had a single issue. This time, the immigration guy was kind of pompous and, once they told him they weren't staying at a hotel but with some friends, he began looking at them somewhat funny. Finally, he stamped their passports (normally, with entry date and a 6-month term of stay) but he put an additional stamp, one that no one they asked had seen before:    It seems to be the same usual entry stamp, but cut in half. What does it mean? Should we be concerned? New "[tag:" syntax interferes with Markdown links Links in [link text][number] format don't work properly if they follow a tag using the new [tag:tagName] format. Here's the result of [tag:python] [gold badge page][1]:      [gold badge page]   Putting the tag inside the link is worse. Here's the result of [[meta-tag:bug] some text][2], where [2] is google.com:        The part of the link outside the tag just disappears silently.  EDIT: To be more precise, the entire link to [2] disappears. The markup that is produced contains (invalid) nested anchor tags, as shown here from Firefox's "View Source":  &lt;a href="http://google.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="post-tag required-tag" title="show questions tagged 'bug'" rel="tag"&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; some text&lt;/a&gt;   So the tag is still a link, but it is a link to the tag page, which is the behavior it would have if the link to [2] didn't exist at all. The user's desired behavior in this case is... ambiguous, to be charitable.  EDIT 2: I briefly included markup from Firebug here, but it turned out to be irrelevant. It has now been removed to improve readability. See  if you're interested. How do popular free RAW editor/converter compare to each other on Windows? I'm looking for a free RAW editor/converter on Windows. Can you tell me some strong/weak points of them comparing with Capture NX and/or Adobe Photoshop Elements?       - conversion &amp; EXIF  - white balance  - registration not possible anymore   EXIF editing would be a nice bonus.  Related: boolean[] vs. BitSet: Which is more efficient? What is more efficient in terms of memory and CPU usage — an array of booleans or a BitSet? Specific BitSet methods are not used, only get/set/clear (==, =, Arrays.fill respectively for an array). Django model with 2 foreign keys from the same table List questions: Community Wiki? Noun-adjective reversal - was it ever in use in plain speech? I've already installed Steam, but when I click on the program I get this message  ERROR- You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run: not   I don't know what to install or even do. DateTime "null" value I've been searching a lot but couldn't find a solution. How do you deal with a DateTime that should be able to contain an uninitialized value (equivalent to null)? I have a class which might have a DateTime property value set or not. I was thinking of initializing the property holder to DateTime.MinValue, which then could easily be checked. I guess this is a quite common question, how do you do that? Integrable - martingale Suppose $X_{n}^{(1)}$ and $X_{n}^{(2)}$ are martingales w.r.t. a filtration $F_{n}$. I have do determine whether $Z_{n}=e^{X_{n}^{1}+X_{n}^{2}}$ is a martingale, submartingale or supermartingale. I thought that because $X_{n}^{1}+X_{n}^{2}$ is a martingale I can use Jensen to say that $E[Z_{n}|F_{n-1}]\geq e^{E(X_{n}^{(1)}+X_{n}^{(2)}|F_{n-1})}=Z_{n-1}$. But I have to check whether $Z_{n}$ is integrable and I don't know how. Is it possible to double your proficiency bonus twice? Let's say I'm a multiclass rogue/ranger and I have taken Expertise in survival checks. Now, if a ranger is in their favored terrain it says they double their proficiency bonus in intelligence and wisdom checks relating to you environment. If I am in my favored terrain and use my already doubled survival check, will it double again? Log4j Logging to a Shared Log File Is there a way to write log4j logging events to a log file that is also being written to by other applications. The other applications could be non-java applications. What are the drawbacks? Locking issues? Formatting? Indian passport threading coming off My Indian passport threading is coming off i.e. the cover of the passport is coming off, there are only 2 threads remaining.   Will it be a problem at the airport when going abroad ? Also anyone who has experience of getting a replacement passport fairly quick ? Because I need to get a passport in like 15 days. How to connect Android with MySQL using Mysql JDBC driver I've been testing PCA via SVD to decompose a simple time series data matrix, $X$.  I have two signals $x_1(t)$ and $x_2(t)$ in a data matrix where $M$ rows represents each timepoint sample and each column represents $x_1$ and $x_2$.  The mean signal, $\hat{x}$, is defined as the mean along the row axis (average of $x_1$ and $x_2$ along each timepoint).  I normalize each column of $X$ by subtracting its mean and dividing by the standard deviation.  When I use [U S V] = svd(Xz) in matlab, regardless of how the variables are distributed (whether they are correlated or uncorrelated), one of the columns of the right singular matrix, V, always points in the same direction (to a multiplicative constant) as the mean vector $(1/2, 1/2)$.  But when add an additional third time series, this is never the case (where the mean vector is $(1/3, 1/3, 1/3)$.  Because I normalize the standard deviation for each vector, it does make sense that the direction of most variance given by PCA would be the diagonal 45 degree line.  But if both variables $x_1$ and $x_2$ are independent gaussians, couldn't the PCA direction be any direction since the distribution is radially symmetric?  MATLAB Code:  s = RandStream('mcg16807', 'Seed', 0); RandStream.setDefaultStream(s);  G = zeros(1000,2); G(:,1) = 40*randn(1000,1)-100; G(:,2) = tan(G(:,1)) + randn(1000,1); X = G - repmat(mean(G),[size(G,1), 1]); Xz = X./repmat(std(G),[size(G,1), 1]); [U S V] = svd(Xz); G_mean = mean(Xz,2); corrcoef(G_mean, U(:,1)) corrcoef(G_mean, U(:,2)) This is a bit of a more unusual bug to report:    The screenshot above is unedited - the black box is rendered by the Stack Exchange application.  Phone:  running Android 4.0.4 (ICS) I will have a 10 hour layover in Seoul (ICN) and I want to go out and do some shopping. Is it possible to check in a bag during my layover?  I will be traveling on Korean Air.  I will only have 1 checked bag, and international flights allow 2 bags free. onConfigurationChanged not getting called Target='_blank' to show in new window, NOT new tab, possible? hello everyone I have a little problem, how do I bring up the menu in the circle? when I select another object the menu becomes non-existent