No, as you correctly note it isn't really true. Reading the article shows that Ms. Anderson is stating she has never been a file sharer and has never used P2P software. By definition then, this case is not "the case P2P file sharers have been waiting for" as it is not involving the rights and wrongs of P2P.
I was actually advised to fetch this down today when I asked about email clients to use with ancient Macs (SE/30, System 7.5.5) that might support SMTP AUTH. So right up until the end people were being advised to look at it.
But, but. It works wonders for Apple, so why do you feel its a bad thing? Have you considered the language is chosen for this purpose?
Perhaps so, but that doesn't mean to say I have to go along with it. I'm a happy OS X user here, but I certainly don't swallow all the marketing-driven bumph the comes out of Apple, with the recent Might Mouse spiel being a stand-out example of that.
No, I just felt that the article was little disingenuous with its language and credit-claiming, that was all. I don't even know if that extends to the developers, since I don't know what they'd say on the matter. I was specifically referring to the language used to try and convince people of KDE's far-sighted vision, when it seems to me that in fact they're catching up with at least two environments (OS X, Gnome) and possibly even a third (Vista, all depends on release date of course).
Oh, it would have been unpossible for them not to clone Apple. After all, everybody on apple.slashdot.com knows everything noteworthy on the desktop was done by Apple first...
Misdirected rant. I'm not praising Apple to the rooftops, actually I dislike Spotlight intensely, or more accurately the Finder's use of it. No, my point was that the language of the article painted the idea as the far-sighted KDE developers coming up with something marvellously new and unique. It isn't. Neither is Spotlight, come to that, as you will no doubt point out. Point of my post wasn't to praise Apple, it was more an objection to the language of the article in trying to dress a cloning catch-up exercise with futurism.
Interesting. From that link, Dashboard seems a little in advance of Spotlight, or more accurately in advance 9of current Spotlight usage, as it reacts in real time, as opposed to changed search criteria. Spotlight does have the search-as-you-type thing, so it could be used that way, but I'm not aware of anything that's doing it. I'm also not aware of Spotlight being used outside of its own applications, eg. a search in Finder causing Preview to update the PDF it's displaying etc. That sounds implicit in the Dashboard description I've just read.
I think you'll find that the desktop search tool Beagle...
But Spotlight is more than a desktop search tool, and that's what's being hinted at in the KDE descriptions. You could also use it to search through control panels, for example. Or music libraries - iTunes uses it. That's the point.
It's not to knock Beagle that I made the post, it's more to point at the lack of creativity in the KDE plan dressed up in "but our developers are already thinking further"-type language. They're not thinking further. They're cloning Spotlight. A bit more honesty about that from the article wouldn't have gone amiss.
From the article: "The most obvious application of Tenor would be desktop search, giving KDE an analog to GNOME's brilliant search tool Beagle. But the Tenor project's chief architect, Scott Wheeler, wants to go further, asking, "how can we make it easier to work with the data we accumulate on the desktop?" So rather than just making it easier for users to search for documents, Tenor will provide application developers with data that can transform their interfaces. For example, the KDE Control Center, which currently organizes the configuration modules into a confusing hierarchy, may provide a search interface with results that show related items and learn from usage patterns."
...can all be distilled into "clone Spotlight, with a bit of Launchbar in there too (the 'learn from usage patterns' bit).
I'm curious - could you please let me know what you're doing with it? And whether any special approach was needed to make best use of the system?
In other words, suppose I threw a standard text processing job at it (trawl through 2 gigs of disparate log files, correlate, spit out unified log). Simple enough task and on the machine I use it takes about 4 minutes to complete. If I took that and ran it on the TeraGrid with no special thought to that environment (it's a single-threaded Perl script), would it run in the blink of an eye or am I still looking at a reasonable chunk.
I'm not suggesting I'd actually do this of course - I'd optimise whatever the task was to whatever the environment is. But I'm just curious to know what it will do to bread'n'butter tasks as well as the exotics.
From the article: ...the (Motorola-designed) software is as uninspiring as that of the Razr. (Why is it that Nokia is apparently still the only company capable of designing an intuitive user interface for telephony?)
Well, for me they aren't. I had a Nokia 3650, and regardless of form-factor oddness the interface was just dubious. Very slow, took ages and many button-presses to just get it to understand I wanted to send a text. Something like Phone book->Pick name->confirm number->create message->SMS message (as opposed to picture or what have you. Or there was another way starting from Create Message that required just as many button presses before you started typing.
I switched to the Motorola V3 to give something else a try - specifically to get away from the Nokia interfaces. The Motorola interface has proven better in some areas, the same in others. Not worse in any, except the god-awful default ringtone.
It's still not great however. Years ago, I had an Ericsson T38, and that had a great interface. Purely text-based, to create a message was just one option at the top level - 'New Message'. If you regularly sent to one person (which I did - my then-girlfriend-now-wife), you could specify person as being the default recipient. So creating an SMS consisted of three button presses - cursor down, select 'New Message', hit select to confirm default recipient and then type. And the response was instance - none of the large lag that seems increasingly common with graphically flash phones.
There's not one of the new phones I've found that's anywhere near as quick as that. I like the V3 as a phone for its size, audio quality and size of keypad. I can't help feeling that in some of the basics however phone interfaces going backwards fast.
I'm reading a depressingly large number of predicatble off-pat responses - "So? IE is far worse. Microsoft sucks!".
Honestly, who cares? Why does this have to be compared to a Microsoft response? Why can't this just be viewed as an event in its own right and not constantly looked at as some insult which might be handing Microsoft an edge?
Objectively, if I use Firefox I have no interest in how Microsoft might have responded to a similar situation. I am purely interested in the Mozilla response (which I'm explicitly not passing judgement on in this post). Can people give it a rest with the constant defensiveness against Microsoft?
Someone please tell me that the OSX port is close behind.
I'd hope so too, but doesn't it depend on the kernel? OS X doesn't have a FreeBSD kernel, it's a MACH-based affair.
It clearly can be ported between kernels because this is precisely what the article is describing. However, that doesn't translate to the work actually taking place to run it against MACH.
Today's variant, says Mr Barrett, is 'no more tapes, CDs, DVDs, discs.' In other words, expect them to be around for a very long time to come.""
They exist only as source data in my home. The first thing done with any CD is to rip it, the first thing done with any DVD is to rip it. CDs get put into iTunes then streamed into my amp via an Airport Express, DVDs get converted to MP4 and streamed via an Elgato eyeHome. I have a (UK, so Series 1) hacked Tivo which handles VCR-type needs and then some. With a few hacks here and there, that also handles streaming of recently recorded video and I wrote a quick app to handle creation of a podcast from any radio programmes I'm interested in (here, if you're interested. Perl so should be cross-platform).
Obviously that's an OS X set-up I'm talking about, but that kind of thing is possible on Linux and Windows too. It's also not an especially hard process. My bits and pieces to produce it accumulated over the years, were I starting from scratch now I think MythTV would be what I'd look at.
Anyway, regardless of specific tools or platform the idea of no CDs or DVDs in the home is a reality right now for me. And I doubt I'm unique in this.
can I possible have understood this? according to you, it's just ok that corporations use an individual's published creative work without due credit or compensation
You have misunderstood. I suggested a polite notice, rather than pop-up pictures of abattoirs. I recognised the right of the person being linked to to change their content. And I explicitly reject that this game is the person's creative work, as it is an deliberate and self-acknowldged copy of someone's actual creative work of nearly twenty years ago.
Turns out he is the copyright holder of Burgertime. From TFA, he worked as a flash game developer, and Burgertime was one of his most popular (and oft copied) games.
Burgertime certainly isn't his game, and predates Flash by quite some way. Here's the history, showing that the copyright holder is the Japanese company Data East, or whatever its corporate successor is.
This guy states:
"Well, starting in late 2000/early 2001, the work began to run out. Which gave me a lot of free time. So I started creating games in Flash. "
So 2000 at the earliest then. Whereas Burgertime itself dates from 1982. No, he isn't the copyright holder.
The exact wording might be incorrect, but the quote which springs to mind readily is this one:
"To have the right to do something is not the same as being right to do it"
I agree Fuddruckers has the right to link to his site. I agree he has the right to change his content. I completely disagree that he was right to change his content in such a manner.
I mean, this company has just given him a compliment. "Hey", they said. "This game is cool". And how does the complimentee respond? By kicking virtual sand in their face because it generates too much interest. Something wrong with just putting a static 'Thanks for the interest, but we can't cope with the bandwidth right now' message up? Ie. being pleasant and polite?
And since the guy's getting so self-righteous, I assume he has permission from the copyright holders of Burgertime to clone their game and shove it up on the web for free in the first place, right? I mean, a person so certain of right and wrong must> have done that first, musn't he.
Or "Satan's Hound Of Comedy-Sidekick Hell", to give him his full title.
I will never forgive the BBC, or indeed the world in general, for allowing the theme tune to K9 And Company to be inflicted on this poor unsuspecting child...
They were NOT busted for spam! They were drug dealers, caught illegally selling narcotics. Spam was how they advertised, but they are getting NO punishment for it.
I see this as a good thing on balance. I would have liked the spam to be taken into consideration as a detail somewhere, but what this shows is that the correct approach is to go after the traditional side of the crime - in this case, fraud and drug dealing. There are already laws in place to deal with this, and the judicial system understands them well. Sounds like a much better chance of a proportionate punishment to me.
Windows 95 came, all the features that were there were all available in Apple's OS.
No, this isn't true. I was a Mac user at the time, running System 7.5 on a LC, and whilst a lot of the UI was better on the Mac some of the internals weren't.
Examples? Well, two major ones spring to mind.
Pre-emptive multitasking. The Mac used co-operative multitasking, ie. relying on the frontmost app to nicely make calls to yield().
Application memory management. On System 7.5, you had to manually set how much memory an application was supposed to get. If you guessed wrong, tough - the app would die with an 'out of memory error', regardless of how much physical or even virtual RAM was still available.
I actually switched away from System 7.5 to a PC running Win95. I refused to go earlier, because Win3.11 was so utterly poor. It's fair to say I missed things from my Mac's UI. It's equally fair to say I think my Windows bax at that time was a better computer.
I'm a Mac user again now, having re-taken the plunge at OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). Now the tables are turned, and the Mac is a drastically better box than the Windows machines I have to use. But had Apple continued down the MacOS route, I would never have gone back to them.
When billboards know your name that's when to really worry.
Oh, I don't know. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came. You want to be where you can see our troubles are all the same. You want to be where everybody knows your name.
./battery.sh: line 3: /usr/sbin/ioreg: No such file or directory sed: 2: "/| *{/,/| *}/ { # Comment added to fool lameness filter ...": bad flag in substitute command: '/'
However, which ioreg produces/usr/sbin/ioreg. Any ideas?
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Believe it or not, the first cut I did was actually longer and dealt with some of those issues. I didn't refer specifically to Captain Blood, but I did refer to European gaming development. Unfortunately, I somehow dropped that during editing.
Interesting, thanks for the reply.
...For example, Populous was an excellent game technically and innovatively, but I'd argue it didn't do much to advance anything that Chris Kohler was talking about in his book.
Populous wasn't narrative-driven, it's true. However, I could point towards Another World and Flashback on the Amiga. On the 8 bits, you could look towards The Lords Of Midnight and the original Lord Of The Rings adventure from Melbourne House (took place in something close to real-time, very novel at the time).
It's an interesting chat to be having and I feel good work was being done everywhere.
would disagree, though, with your statement that PC gaming was essentially farcial until the arrival of the 486 DX2 66mhz. Ultima 4 came out well before then, as did King Quest I-IV. There are other examples, but those are the ones that popped into my head.
Conceded. It was still a terrible platform however, until the world more-or-less standardised on a 486 DX2/66 with 4Mb RAM, Soundblaster-compatible and a Diamond Viper or similar graphics card. Things really took off from there. Until then, the other platforms had it beaten.
For example, he goes into great detail about character development and the use of narrative elements within Japanese RPGs, but completely ignores what was happening in the West in the years preceding them...completely ignores all further development and refinement taking place in the U.S. This is especially strange when one considers that he...appears to have a reasonable knowledge of US and PC gaming history.
The West is more than the US. There's a fine tradition of game design from Scandinavia, for example. Or the French did some innovative stuff as well - Captain Blood sticks out as an oddball gem. From the UK, we have the glory that was the early days of Psygnosis, plus Ultimate's 8 bit works. And what of Russia and Tetris?
A knowledge of PC gaming history can't go back that far either. Where is the C64 or the Amiga? A lot of innovative stuff was done on both of those platforms, and I'm sure others will feel their own platform had something to offer as well (I was a C64 and Atari ST man at the time). PC gaming was essentially farcical until the arrival of the 486 DX2 66Mhz and either Wing Commander or Doom, depending on your point of view.
Please don't misunderstand me - this is not an attempt to knock the fine development that went on in the States (where's the nod to Dungeon Master, for a start...). It's more that I felt in your review you were being a little guilty of the same problem you criticised the original author for - focus on a single region without looking at some of the broader scene.
But my question for you is... isn't there a Mac version of Quicken that would suit your purposes?
There's a Mac version of Quicken, but not Quicken UK. There are different tax rules in the UK which a US version wouldn't handle.
In addition, the Mac version is quite a way behind its Windows counterpart. I find this quite surprising - surely the actual financial codebase would all be platform independent, with the GUI being the only platform-specific code required? But no - it's not. The Mac version isn't multi-currency, can't handle reporting as well, invoicing and business bills are missing...it's just not up to it for what I require.
Still looking for a decent dual-purpose Mac accounts package. By dual-purpose I mean able to do both home and business accounts, and this package also needs to be multi-currency and also keep up to date with localised tax categories and rules.
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No, as you correctly note it isn't really true. Reading the article shows that Ms. Anderson is stating she has never been a file sharer and has never used P2P software. By definition then, this case is not "the case P2P file sharers have been waiting for" as it is not involving the rights and wrongs of P2P.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Perhaps so, but that doesn't mean to say I have to go along with it. I'm a happy OS X user here, but I certainly don't swallow all the marketing-driven bumph the comes out of Apple, with the recent Might Mouse spiel being a stand-out example of that.
No, I just felt that the article was little disingenuous with its language and credit-claiming, that was all. I don't even know if that extends to the developers, since I don't know what they'd say on the matter. I was specifically referring to the language used to try and convince people of KDE's far-sighted vision, when it seems to me that in fact they're catching up with at least two environments (OS X, Gnome) and possibly even a third (Vista, all depends on release date of course).
Cheers,
Ian
Misdirected rant. I'm not praising Apple to the rooftops, actually I dislike Spotlight intensely, or more accurately the Finder's use of it. No, my point was that the language of the article painted the idea as the far-sighted KDE developers coming up with something marvellously new and unique. It isn't. Neither is Spotlight, come to that, as you will no doubt point out. Point of my post wasn't to praise Apple, it was more an objection to the language of the article in trying to dress a cloning catch-up exercise with futurism.
Cheers,
Ian
Good link - thanks.
Cheers,
Ian
But Spotlight is more than a desktop search tool, and that's what's being hinted at in the KDE descriptions. You could also use it to search through control panels, for example. Or music libraries - iTunes uses it. That's the point.
It's not to knock Beagle that I made the post, it's more to point at the lack of creativity in the KDE plan dressed up in "but our developers are already thinking further"-type language. They're not thinking further. They're cloning Spotlight. A bit more honesty about that from the article wouldn't have gone amiss.
Cheers,
Ian
"The most obvious application of Tenor would be desktop search, giving KDE an analog to GNOME's brilliant search tool Beagle. But the Tenor project's chief architect, Scott Wheeler, wants to go further, asking, "how can we make it easier to work with the data we accumulate on the desktop?" So rather than just making it easier for users to search for documents, Tenor will provide application developers with data that can transform their interfaces. For example, the KDE Control Center, which currently organizes the configuration modules into a confusing hierarchy, may provide a search interface with results that show related items and learn from usage patterns."
Cheers,
Ian
In other words, suppose I threw a standard text processing job at it (trawl through 2 gigs of disparate log files, correlate, spit out unified log). Simple enough task and on the machine I use it takes about 4 minutes to complete. If I took that and ran it on the TeraGrid with no special thought to that environment (it's a single-threaded Perl script), would it run in the blink of an eye or am I still looking at a reasonable chunk.
I'm not suggesting I'd actually do this of course - I'd optimise whatever the task was to whatever the environment is. But I'm just curious to know what it will do to bread'n'butter tasks as well as the exotics.
Cheers,
Ian
Well, for me they aren't. I had a Nokia 3650, and regardless of form-factor oddness the interface was just dubious. Very slow, took ages and many button-presses to just get it to understand I wanted to send a text. Something like Phone book->Pick name->confirm number->create message->SMS message (as opposed to picture or what have you. Or there was another way starting from Create Message that required just as many button presses before you started typing.
I switched to the Motorola V3 to give something else a try - specifically to get away from the Nokia interfaces. The Motorola interface has proven better in some areas, the same in others. Not worse in any, except the god-awful default ringtone.
It's still not great however. Years ago, I had an Ericsson T38, and that had a great interface. Purely text-based, to create a message was just one option at the top level - 'New Message'. If you regularly sent to one person (which I did - my then-girlfriend-now-wife), you could specify person as being the default recipient. So creating an SMS consisted of three button presses - cursor down, select 'New Message', hit select to confirm default recipient and then type. And the response was instance - none of the large lag that seems increasingly common with graphically flash phones.
There's not one of the new phones I've found that's anywhere near as quick as that. I like the V3 as a phone for its size, audio quality and size of keypad. I can't help feeling that in some of the basics however phone interfaces going backwards fast.
Cheers,
Ian
Honestly, who cares? Why does this have to be compared to a Microsoft response? Why can't this just be viewed as an event in its own right and not constantly looked at as some insult which might be handing Microsoft an edge?
Objectively, if I use Firefox I have no interest in how Microsoft might have responded to a similar situation. I am purely interested in the Mozilla response (which I'm explicitly not passing judgement on in this post). Can people give it a rest with the constant defensiveness against Microsoft?
Cheers,
Ian
I'd hope so too, but doesn't it depend on the kernel? OS X doesn't have a FreeBSD kernel, it's a MACH-based affair.
It clearly can be ported between kernels because this is precisely what the article is describing. However, that doesn't translate to the work actually taking place to run it against MACH.
Cheers,
Ian
They exist only as source data in my home. The first thing done with any CD is to rip it, the first thing done with any DVD is to rip it. CDs get put into iTunes then streamed into my amp via an Airport Express, DVDs get converted to MP4 and streamed via an Elgato eyeHome. I have a (UK, so Series 1) hacked Tivo which handles VCR-type needs and then some. With a few hacks here and there, that also handles streaming of recently recorded video and I wrote a quick app to handle creation of a podcast from any radio programmes I'm interested in (here, if you're interested. Perl so should be cross-platform).
Obviously that's an OS X set-up I'm talking about, but that kind of thing is possible on Linux and Windows too. It's also not an especially hard process. My bits and pieces to produce it accumulated over the years, were I starting from scratch now I think MythTV would be what I'd look at.
Anyway, regardless of specific tools or platform the idea of no CDs or DVDs in the home is a reality right now for me. And I doubt I'm unique in this.
Cheers,
Ian
You have misunderstood. I suggested a polite notice, rather than pop-up pictures of abattoirs. I recognised the right of the person being linked to to change their content. And I explicitly reject that this game is the person's creative work, as it is an deliberate and self-acknowldged copy of someone's actual creative work of nearly twenty years ago.
Cheers,
Ian
Burgertime certainly isn't his game, and predates Flash by quite some way. Here's the history, showing that the copyright holder is the Japanese company Data East, or whatever its corporate successor is.
This guy states:
"Well, starting in late 2000/early 2001, the work began to run out. Which gave me a lot of free time. So I started creating games in Flash. "
So 2000 at the earliest then. Whereas Burgertime itself dates from 1982. No, he isn't the copyright holder.
Cheers,
Ian
"To have the right to do something is not the same as being right to do it"
I agree Fuddruckers has the right to link to his site. I agree he has the right to change his content. I completely disagree that he was right to change his content in such a manner.
I mean, this company has just given him a compliment. "Hey", they said. "This game is cool". And how does the complimentee respond? By kicking virtual sand in their face because it generates too much interest. Something wrong with just putting a static 'Thanks for the interest, but we can't cope with the bandwidth right now' message up? Ie. being pleasant and polite?
And since the guy's getting so self-righteous, I assume he has permission from the copyright holders of Burgertime to clone their game and shove it up on the web for free in the first place, right? I mean, a person so certain of right and wrong must> have done that first, musn't he.
Cheers,
Ian
Or "Satan's Hound Of Comedy-Sidekick Hell", to give him his full title.
I will never forgive the BBC, or indeed the world in general, for allowing the theme tune to K9 And Company to be inflicted on this poor unsuspecting child...
Cheers,
Ian
I see this as a good thing on balance. I would have liked the spam to be taken into consideration as a detail somewhere, but what this shows is that the correct approach is to go after the traditional side of the crime - in this case, fraud and drug dealing. There are already laws in place to deal with this, and the judicial system understands them well. Sounds like a much better chance of a proportionate punishment to me.
Cheers,
Ian
No, this isn't true. I was a Mac user at the time, running System 7.5 on a LC, and whilst a lot of the UI was better on the Mac some of the internals weren't.
Examples? Well, two major ones spring to mind.
I actually switched away from System 7.5 to a PC running Win95. I refused to go earlier, because Win3.11 was so utterly poor. It's fair to say I missed things from my Mac's UI. It's equally fair to say I think my Windows bax at that time was a better computer.
I'm a Mac user again now, having re-taken the plunge at OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). Now the tables are turned, and the Mac is a drastically better box than the Windows machines I have to use. But had Apple continued down the MacOS route, I would never have gone back to them.
Cheers,
Ian
Oh, I don't know. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came. You want to be where you can see our troubles are all the same. You want to be where everybody knows your name.
Cheers,
Ian
Got it - works a treat thanks.
Cheers,
Ian
Getting an error:
/usr/sbin/ioreg: No such file or directory
...": bad flag in substitute command: '/'
/usr/sbin/ioreg. Any ideas?
./battery.sh: line 3:
sed: 2: "/| *{/,/| *}/ { # Comment added to fool lameness filter
However, which ioreg produces
Cheers,
Ian
Interesting, thanks for the reply.
Populous wasn't narrative-driven, it's true. However, I could point towards Another World and Flashback on the Amiga. On the 8 bits, you could look towards The Lords Of Midnight and the original Lord Of The Rings adventure from Melbourne House (took place in something close to real-time, very novel at the time).
It's an interesting chat to be having and I feel good work was being done everywhere.
would disagree, though, with your statement that PC gaming was essentially farcial until the arrival of the 486 DX2 66mhz. Ultima 4 came out well before then, as did King Quest I-IV. There are other examples, but those are the ones that popped into my head.
Conceded. It was still a terrible platform however, until the world more-or-less standardised on a 486 DX2/66 with 4Mb RAM, Soundblaster-compatible and a Diamond Viper or similar graphics card. Things really took off from there. Until then, the other platforms had it beaten.
Cheers,
Ian
The West is more than the US. There's a fine tradition of game design from Scandinavia, for example. Or the French did some innovative stuff as well - Captain Blood sticks out as an oddball gem. From the UK, we have the glory that was the early days of Psygnosis, plus Ultimate's 8 bit works. And what of Russia and Tetris?
A knowledge of PC gaming history can't go back that far either. Where is the C64 or the Amiga? A lot of innovative stuff was done on both of those platforms, and I'm sure others will feel their own platform had something to offer as well (I was a C64 and Atari ST man at the time). PC gaming was essentially farcical until the arrival of the 486 DX2 66Mhz and either Wing Commander or Doom, depending on your point of view.
Please don't misunderstand me - this is not an attempt to knock the fine development that went on in the States (where's the nod to Dungeon Master, for a start...). It's more that I felt in your review you were being a little guilty of the same problem you criticised the original author for - focus on a single region without looking at some of the broader scene.
Cheers,
Ian
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There's a Mac version of Quicken, but not Quicken UK. There are different tax rules in the UK which a US version wouldn't handle.
In addition, the Mac version is quite a way behind its Windows counterpart. I find this quite surprising - surely the actual financial codebase would all be platform independent, with the GUI being the only platform-specific code required? But no - it's not. The Mac version isn't multi-currency, can't handle reporting as well, invoicing and business bills are missing...it's just not up to it for what I require.
Still looking for a decent dual-purpose Mac accounts package. By dual-purpose I mean able to do both home and business accounts, and this package also needs to be multi-currency and also keep up to date with localised tax categories and rules.
Cheers,
Ian