I don't use Quicken, but if the communication involved is, literally, only between the user and a financial institution, then I'm not sure how that capability could be disabled by Intuit.
They own the protocol. They disabled the old protocol in the 2005 version, and have decided to charge both the customer for the upgrade and the banks for the privilege of using the new protocol.
They changed their download format and have removed support for the old style transaction downloads on Quicken 2005.
Not only do they want you to upgrade to 2005, they want the banks to spend many, many thousands of dollars to implement the ability to download transactions in the new versions of Quicken.
Call your bank and check. You probably don't have to bother with it.
Or you might even be better off not upgrading - if your bank's website supports the older versions of Quicken, then it will continue to support the older versions of Quicken. Only the new versions will not be supported, unless your bank is foolish enough to purchase the download support for Quicken 2005 and above.
With our site, older versions of Quicken can still download transactions with no issues - Quicken 2005 and above can not (and money has no issues either). In order to set our site up to allow for Quicken to import transactions, it would cost the bank several thousand dollars (+ several thousand dollars per year!) to gain no functionality. To be honest, it would be just as cost effective to give away copies of MS Money instead of paying Intuit's blackmail.
Intuit is also trying to get into the banking game and become the face of your bank. They're already advertising "Quicken Loans" and I imagine attempting to steer deposits with Quicken.
It comes down to an economic decision by the bank. We give away online banking and bill pay to all who want it (doesn't matter about their accounts or their balances) for free.
If there is any kind of a decent open source financial program available on Windows, please let me know about it so that I can recommend it to our customers!
But for some unfathomable reason the AT keyboard standard has transposed the top and bottom rows, so you get 1 at the bottom left and 9 at the top right, making it much more difficult to master data entry.
Don't you think that it happened the other way around - the number pad was borrowed from data entry machines?
I can't speak for very old equipment, but all of the proof machines and encoders I've seen (granted that they're just NCR and Burroughs machines) have the number pad for data entry arranged like you would find on a computer keyboard. Same goes for adding machines.
Like I said, I'm not sure how long that's been - I've seen some very old adding machines that were just rows of number in different digits, but I've not seen the number pad arranged any other way than how it's found on the AT keyboard.
Many machines do - either the loan or the deposit software (and rarely both).
The documents are generated on the fly and are not kept as PDF's. That may be the case at larger institutions, but we're limited to "off the shelf" software (as much as that kind of software is off the shelf).
I agree that it shouldn't be too difficult to have software to do that - but what you're really paying for is the content of the forms and I've not seen a good alternative to what we're using that is platform independent.
What hurdles to Microsoft lock-in am I excluding here (on the client side only---I think we are OK on servers)? Integration?
Industry specific software. In banking, there is software for generating the mountains of deposit account and loan documentation required for new accounts - and that software is tied (fairly closely) to Windows.
I agree about the damage that they have done to the fanbase - look at how long it took baseball to gain back the fans after the stunts that they pulled in the 90's.
I was just saying that the NHL has a bigger small market vs. big market problem than baseball even has, and it did sound like at least one team would have folded had they played the year (and some teams are making more money by renting ice this year than they would have by playing hockey).
I don't know if a salary cap like what the NFL has is the right answer (that's led to parity - but those teams that do a good job evaluating and drafting talent can't keep it around) or if baseball's "luxury tax" on high payrolls is the right answer (this gives the big money teams like the Yankees the chance to buy a world series every year). I just know that something needs to be done to ensure competitive hockey that is played.
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They own the protocol. They disabled the old protocol in the 2005 version, and have decided to charge both the customer for the upgrade and the banks for the privilege of using the new protocol.
Not only do they want you to upgrade to 2005, they want the banks to spend many, many thousands of dollars to implement the ability to download transactions in the new versions of Quicken.
Or you might even be better off not upgrading - if your bank's website supports the older versions of Quicken, then it will continue to support the older versions of Quicken. Only the new versions will not be supported, unless your bank is foolish enough to purchase the download support for Quicken 2005 and above.
With our site, older versions of Quicken can still download transactions with no issues - Quicken 2005 and above can not (and money has no issues either). In order to set our site up to allow for Quicken to import transactions, it would cost the bank several thousand dollars (+ several thousand dollars per year!) to gain no functionality. To be honest, it would be just as cost effective to give away copies of MS Money instead of paying Intuit's blackmail.
Intuit is also trying to get into the banking game and become the face of your bank. They're already advertising "Quicken Loans" and I imagine attempting to steer deposits with Quicken.
It comes down to an economic decision by the bank. We give away online banking and bill pay to all who want it (doesn't matter about their accounts or their balances) for free.
If there is any kind of a decent open source financial program available on Windows, please let me know about it so that I can recommend it to our customers!
I was thinking more along the lines of Kazaa
Sounds like rebranded AdAware?
Don't you think that it happened the other way around - the number pad was borrowed from data entry machines?
I can't speak for very old equipment, but all of the proof machines and encoders I've seen (granted that they're just NCR and Burroughs machines) have the number pad for data entry arranged like you would find on a computer keyboard. Same goes for adding machines.
Like I said, I'm not sure how long that's been - I've seen some very old adding machines that were just rows of number in different digits, but I've not seen the number pad arranged any other way than how it's found on the AT keyboard.
That should be good for laughs at little league baseball games this summer (insert maniacal laugh here).
I'd prefer a spray to attract them (and then spray that on someone else nearby)
And it doesn't matter which of them won - a great deal of money would have been spent either way. The only difference is who is bitching about it.
I agree on the temperature variation - heck we had a 30 degree F swing this week alone!
We say in Iowa - "There are places colder than here and hotter than here - but there few places colder and hotter than here"
I'll differ. If you know what you're doing and the company values IT (and your contribution to it!) you can do just fine in the stix.
How cold did it get in North Dakota?
I know that we're hating HP here, but the LaserJet 1012 is a darn nice little monotone laser printer that costs less than $250.
The documents are generated on the fly and are not kept as PDF's. That may be the case at larger institutions, but we're limited to "off the shelf" software (as much as that kind of software is off the shelf).
I agree that it shouldn't be too difficult to have software to do that - but what you're really paying for is the content of the forms and I've not seen a good alternative to what we're using that is platform independent.
Industry specific software. In banking, there is software for generating the mountains of deposit account and loan documentation required for new accounts - and that software is tied (fairly closely) to Windows.
Like Tampa?
What if the device was mounted behind the license plate - I think that the government owns the plates in most states?
I was just saying that the NHL has a bigger small market vs. big market problem than baseball even has, and it did sound like at least one team would have folded had they played the year (and some teams are making more money by renting ice this year than they would have by playing hockey).
I don't know if a salary cap like what the NFL has is the right answer (that's led to parity - but those teams that do a good job evaluating and drafting talent can't keep it around) or if baseball's "luxury tax" on high payrolls is the right answer (this gives the big money teams like the Yankees the chance to buy a world series every year). I just know that something needs to be done to ensure competitive hockey that is played.
If it comes bundled with a future release of the OS or a Service Pack, it doesn't need to be better - it just needs to be "good enough".
My gripe about GTA is that the ambulances that you lift don't handle as nicely as they do in reality. They made them act too much like a cargo van.
Are those the same 2 or 3 that would have folded had they been playing anyway?
After playing it, you start thinking that even though the road has two lanes of traffic, you could squeeze between those cars and go much faster :)
Touche.
Rolling the counter != running out of disk space.