It wasn't even so much traded, as the East India company had to keep putting down disputes that were getting in the way of trade. They spent forever (over 100 years,iirc) trying to get the crown to take india off their hands--governing it was in the way of trade, too:)
Yes, that was the same East India Tea Company we had all the trouble with over here, too . ..
was it still around in the time of Quicken 2.0? I vaguely want to say they threw in the towel on their own software and only worked through other programs, but it's been 10 years . ..
I started with the original version of checkfree. What a disaster--it sent payments to the wrong place more than once (I got a call from the wall street journal asking why I'd sent them a $500 check. Fortunately, it came in time to pay the office rent manually!).
Then I got quicken. I think I skipped version 2 of quicken and upgraded to 3, but it's been a lon time . . .
My taxes got to the point where it became easier to use a spreadsheet than to wait for final versions of the tax programs that imported from quicken. Eventually, I dropped back entirely to pen, paper, and spreadsheet. I'm sure I *could* run my old versions of quicken on one of my old macs (assuming I find both), at last if I lied about the dates, but my finances just aren't complicated enough to bother any more.
>Cruise missiles are not much more than big RC >airplanes with a payload. The German ?buzz >bombs? were a good example - a simple gyro and >altimeter, a bomb, and enough fuel to make it >over to London.
1) You have been caught using broken microsoft software to post to slashdot. Had you used a real computer, you would have either a) real quotation marks or b) html quotation marks rather than some microsoft nonsense that looks like question marks on a real computer. But that's not my point.:)
2) Those buzz-bomb just weren't very effective. They were a terror weapon, not an effective military weapon. They just weren't accurate enough to be of real military value.
Their most significant effect upon the war may will have been Hitler's fascination with massive offensive weaponry--he had jet fighters long before the allies, but they used the same fuel as the stupid buzz-bombs, so instead of sending fuel to fighters that would quickly shoot down five allied planes before landing, he fueled the big bangs instead.
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Hydrogen??? THat hasn't been used since, ahh, the Hindenberg:)
Since then, blimps by the 70's, it took about $1k of electricity . ..
Anyway, before the Evil Empire ruined the fun by suddenly going out of business, the Navy was already looking at launching new ones for sub patrol. The P3 could stay on station 12 hours (16 if needed); it just followed a sub around once one was found. The blimp could be sent out for a week at a time (or more; the limit was really for the crew). But before they built these, the Soviet's forfeited . . .
It is fundamentally unfair to require that someone purchasing a Celine Dion "CD" put the "music" in a computer before suffering sever punishment.
A better solution would be to make the case into a Scroll of Punishment--hopefully the steel ball will slow the tasteless buyer enough on the way to the player that he'll have time to reconsider and never put it in.. ..
hawk, who also understands that opening a Merle Haggard CD should be a Blessed Scroll of Remove Curse . . .
>Imagine you plug in a monitor and immediately the big internal batteries deliver a huge >voltage to your motherboard through the (onboard) video.
Years ago, the TRS-80 (later dubbed Model 1) used three identical connectors (DIN?) on the back. I knew someone who toasted his when reaching behind to plug it together. It never *occurred* to an engineer that anyone would use the same connector like that, and he plugged the power supply to the monitor output . ..
the price of the newspaper covers roughly the distribution cost. The content, printing, staff, profit, etc. come from ads.
However, advertisers won't pay (or at least not nearly as much) to advertise in something free. They take the number of paid subscribers--even if it's only a small amount--as a measure of how many people actually read it.
Friendly governments, such as california, rush in a couple of years later and force them pay overtime on the longer days. In some case, the back wages & penalties from employee-requested shifts have cost several million . ..
A friend of mine is at Scripps institute. The first 3 days, iirc, are taken from vacation, and sick leave can only be used *after* that. Many lab directors are a bit more reasonable:)
Bizarrely, at the university where I was a visiting professor, *faculty* had an allocation of 10 sick days a year. I found this out when I had to take 2 days to go to my grandmother's funeral; they used sick leave.
I shudder at the thought of dealing with classes where I missed that much. Generally, if we can make it out of bed and stand onourown, we show up so as not to fall behind. The only one I've *ever* cancelled for my own illnes was when I wasn't sure that I could make it through the period without running down the hall . ..
With two drives, you do indeed have a 3/4 chance of at least one failing before the MTBF of a single drive--but that's as far as you can go without more information.
You need a handle on the distribution--which is probably approximately normal from the Central Limit Theorem--and other parameters. Assuming nrormality, MTBF and variance (or standard deviation) will let you use a chi-squared distribution with n degrees of freedom (where n is the number of drives) to come up with mtbf for the group (again, defining failure as "at least one").
THe statistics get uglier when failure is "at least two":)
Slashdot reader dachsund has been sued for deep-linking to an article during discussion of deep linking. Wired has joined the suit, naming slashdot for deep linking to its own deep linking article. . ..
Paying high-rate cards first is your best bet--it's equivalent to a 15-20% guaranteed return.
For *very* long term, the best you can hope for is about 10% (7% after inflation)--this is the historical return for the market. For safe, non-fluctuating short term, you can't even keep up with inflation today.
So pay the high cards first--you can always charge again if you need to, and two months of not paying interest on the money (as compared to getting nothing for it in a safe liquid savings) is enough to pay the new cash advance fee, anyway.
bottom line: don't borrow on credit cards at all. If you don't have cash, you can't afford it.
I am an attorney, but this is not legal advice. If you get your legal advice from slashdot, you deserve whatever happens to you.
If it gets to bankruptcy, there's only a couple of things that get paid ahead of employees (particularly, the costs of the proceeding; otherwise noone would get paid.).
If the company is that far down, and behind in wages, a group of employees, in their status as creditors, can file an involuntary bankruptcy petition against th firm.
If there *are* assets to pay out (not enough to pay everything, just enough to be worth selling), it is entirely possible that you can get a bankruptcy specialist to take it on with little or no up-front money--he is part of the administrative expenses that get paid early.
I have no idea how I could do that? Eliminate chapters? I'm certainly not going to take it out on the students, so it can't come from my teaching load. I can't cut it from research, because I'm untenured.
I *would* be immediately on the job market without worring about arranging time to replace me . ..
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Which leads to tragedy. Every year, hundreds of subgenious hunters are trampled to death as the gnus silently circle around and counter-attack . .
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Yes, that was the same East India Tea Company we had all the trouble with over here, too . .
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Newbies!
I started with the original version of checkfree. What a disaster--it sent payments to the wrong place more than once (I got a call from the wall street journal asking why I'd sent them a $500 check. Fortunately, it came in time to pay the office rent manually!).
Then I got quicken. I think I skipped version 2 of quicken and upgraded to 3, but it's been a lon time . . .
My taxes got to the point where it became easier to use a spreadsheet than to wait for final versions of the tax programs that imported from quicken. Eventually, I dropped back entirely to pen, paper, and spreadsheet. I'm sure I *could* run my old versions of quicken on one of my old macs (assuming I find both), at last if I lied about the dates, but my finances just aren't complicated enough to bother any more.
hawk
>airplanes with a payload. The German ?buzz
>bombs? were a good example - a simple gyro and
>altimeter, a bomb, and enough fuel to make it
>over to London.
1) You have been caught using broken microsoft software to post to slashdot. Had you used a real computer, you would have either a) real quotation marks or b) html quotation marks rather than some microsoft nonsense that looks like question marks on a real computer. But that's not my point.
2) Those buzz-bomb just weren't very effective. They were a terror weapon, not an effective military weapon. They just weren't accurate enough to be of real military value.
Their most significant effect upon the war may will have been Hitler's fascination with massive offensive weaponry--he had jet fighters long before the allies, but they used the same fuel as the stupid buzz-bombs, so instead of sending fuel to fighters that would quickly shoot down five allied planes before landing, he fueled the big bangs instead.
hawk
Since then, blimps by the 70's, it took about $1k of electricity . .
Anyway, before the Evil Empire ruined the fun by suddenly going out of business, the Navy was already looking at launching new ones for sub patrol. The P3 could stay on station 12 hours (16 if needed); it just followed a sub around once one was found. The blimp could be sent out for a week at a time (or more; the limit was really for the crew). But before they built these, the Soviet's forfeited . . .
Nonetheless, they'll use helium, not hydrogen.
One flaming arrow . . .
:)
hawk
A better solution would be to make the case into a Scroll of Punishment--hopefully the steel ball will slow the tasteless buyer enough on the way to the player that he'll have time to reconsider and never put it in
hawk, who also understands that opening a Merle Haggard CD should be a Blessed Scroll of Remove Curse . . .
Isn't that in one of those American Express commercials?
:)
hawk
>voltage to your motherboard through the (onboard) video.
Years ago, the TRS-80 (later dubbed Model 1) used three identical connectors (DIN?) on the back. I knew someone who toasted his when reaching behind to plug it together. It never *occurred* to an engineer that anyone would use the same connector like that, and he plugged the power supply to the monitor output . .
hawk
hawk
However, advertisers won't pay (or at least not nearly as much) to advertise in something free. They take the number of paid subscribers--even if it's only a small amount--as a measure of how many people actually read it.
hawk
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Click here if you wish to be removed from future three-phase announments, offers, and special electrocutions.
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I shudder at the thought of dealing with classes where I missed that much. Generally, if we can make it out of bed and stand onourown, we show up so as not to fall behind. The only one I've *ever* cancelled for my own illnes was when I wasn't sure that I could make it through the period without running down the hall . .
hawk
You need a handle on the distribution--which is probably approximately normal from the Central Limit Theorem--and other parameters. Assuming nrormality, MTBF and variance (or standard deviation) will let you use a chi-squared distribution with n degrees of freedom (where n is the number of drives) to come up with mtbf for the group (again, defining failure as "at least one").
THe statistics get uglier when failure is "at least two":)
hawk
:)
hawk
For *very* long term, the best you can hope for is about 10% (7% after inflation)--this is the historical return for the market. For safe, non-fluctuating short term, you can't even keep up with inflation today.
So pay the high cards first--you can always charge again if you need to, and two months of not paying interest on the money (as compared to getting nothing for it in a safe liquid savings) is enough to pay the new cash advance fee, anyway.
bottom line: don't borrow on credit cards at all. If you don't have cash, you can't afford it.
If it gets to bankruptcy, there's only a couple of things that get paid ahead of employees (particularly, the costs of the proceeding; otherwise noone would get paid.).
If the company is that far down, and behind in wages, a group of employees, in their status as creditors, can file an involuntary bankruptcy petition against th firm.
If there *are* assets to pay out (not enough to pay everything, just enough to be worth selling), it is entirely possible that you can get a bankruptcy specialist to take it on with little or no up-front money--he is part of the administrative expenses that get paid early.
hawk, esq.
hawk
I *would* be immediately on the job market without worring about arranging time to replace me . .
hawk the prof