Apparently not much, at least not to stockholders: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:TGT

Back the time window up to 12/13-12/17. I would wager the small dip in value was seen as an opportunity to buy, especially in the Christmas season. Also, one of the the wonders of automated trading.

The redirect can be avoided by setting a parameter via the URL: http://slashdot.org/?nobeta=1

Update your bookmark/link and you're good to go, old school!

Thanks for all of that information. In any case, it is kind of fun running 30 year old software at the start of a class to show the beginnings of the spreadsheet...

By the way, you can download a working copy of Visicalc from Dan Bricklin's website: http://www.danbricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

(It is really just a curiosity at this point...)

I was thinking it was still an 8088 - too long ago to remember, too lazy to look it up! :-)

I actually ran Visicalc directly on Windows thru XP and even Vista, at the beginning of any Excel training that I've done for the last 15 or so years, until I no longer had a 32-bit OS to run it on. The copyright notice says (c) 1978-1981; I'm pretty sure it was 8-bit PC XT software, and it ran directly on Windows thru Vista, as long as it was a 32-bit OS.

It is an interesting way to start out the class, and it's fun to point out that what you get for ~$100.00 has sure changed! Now I have to run it on an emulator, due to Windows 7+ only being offered in 64 bit versions.

Definitely worth a look. Open source version of Compiere - ERP/CRM and more. You don't mention what line of business you are in, but this is a flexible system you can tailor to your needs. I am in the process of implementing it for a hobby (photography) that has recently become (if accidentally!) profitable. Postgresql backend, native client and web client. Great price, too - free (as in beer and speech)!

Support is available, as well.

Try one of the 'ransom note' fonts that are available, and save your document as a JPEG. That may be enough obfuscation to make OCR difficult/unreliable. Of course, you can type up your paragraph first, then change the font. Much easier on the eyes (and the mind) while typing!

Post modified for those of us here in Illinois...

"What do you have in the Blagojevich signature series? How about Ryan? Walker? Kerner?"

If it was my daughter, it would now be a missing persons case as well.

As in "I have a specific set of skills..."

Thanks. I did some more research on it, and realized that I misunderstood the problem when I first read (skimmed?) the article. It seems they were using strongarm tactics to coerce the publishers into charging higher prices to their competition. I don't use iAnything, and really have no idea how big Apple's book store is, or how many e-books they sell. My library system has quite a selection of e-books for checkout, and I prefer to do that over buying them, anyway.

Sorry, I initially misunderstood the problem - I was cooking dinner and more or less skimmed the article. I was thinking they were colluding to enable them to fix their prices at a higher price point, then it dawned on me that they were colluding to raise the publisher's prices to other vendors so they could undercut them, and using strongarm tactics to do it... Thinking a little slow tonight - had a reading comprehension fail! :-)

Thanks. I don't use iTunes, or iAnything, but the reported prices in the article ($12.99 to $14.99) are equal to or less than typical prices on Amazon and B it's dawning on me now that if Apple's been strongarming the publishers to achieve this situation, then, yes, that could be antitrust behavior. I was initially thinking they were colluding to fix prices artificially high for themselves, when it seems it was to raise other vendor's prices. Actions like refusing to approve apps for the crap store if the pricing wasn't fixed is definitely against things like the Sherman act.

It's acceptable to grammar nazi myself, isn't it? :-)

Not defending Apple's pricing, in fact I think that they are in many ways douchebags, but why is this an antitrust situation? They are negotiating with vendors to reach the price point they desire. They are just reaching for a higher price point, instead of a lower one. They can't set their prices to what their customers will bear? I'm not about to click all of the links in the article, which isn't much of an article, but unless they were colluding with these publishers to charge higher prices everywhere, I don't see a problem. If Apple's customers are such zealots that they won't consider other sources for their media, let them pay the prices.