Quickbooks and Quicken are similar only in that they are owned by the same company. They are not related in any other way. It sounds like you're giving too much weight to the "Quick" part of the names.
I'd be willing to bet a few billion dollars that a competent group of people could implement QB in under a quarter of the lines of code while both improving the quality and making it significantly faster in every regard.
So then why has nobody come up with a better product, then, Mr. Billionaire?
Start-up entrepreneurs cannot evade the discipline of the capital markets any more than can the prime ministers of Spain and Italy.'
Sure they can. They can maintain their own equity and grow the company with cash. You only have to deal with the capital markets if you get greedy, in which case, you get what you deserve.
So you purposely turn away business because of your fanatical attachment to a single file format/application, when you could perfectly easily export to a PDF?
Yes.
What company do you claim to work at? I am sure your manager would love to hear about your antics.
You're talking to him.
Bingo. I agree completely. But it doesn't just apply to customers. It also applies to vendors, as well. If somebody is going to bitch about common business software, then I'm not going to bother.
And yes, I am a decision maker. I don't have a manager.
If I send somebody a Word document, and they say, "I don't have Office", then that says to me that this person A. Isn't serious about whatever they do B. Isn't willing to spend a few hundred bucks to interoperate with the rest of the adult world, or C. is wasting my time for the sake of some juvenile, idealistic silliness. I've got better stuff to do than to play some kind of geek games.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, in 2012 if you're using Office for anything more complex than a letter to mom or a school book report - you're probably doing it wrong.
What a stupid fucking article. "Junkweb". Are you kidding me? Most people are really fucking stupid. They do stupid things. End of story.
Of course, the guy who wrote it is "President of Human Business Works, helping (mostly larger) companies with customer acquisition and community nurturing by amplifying the human digital channel". Even his job title/business(?) is bullshit.
To you, anyone who avoids using office isn't just an advocate of open systems, he's a fanatic.
That's right. Office is a few hundred bucks. It's a cost of doing business. Insisting on not purchasing one of the more important tools for most businesses over some half-baked pre-pubescent ideology is fanatical.
You are right, opening Microsoft proprietary documents on other systems is a pain.
Luckily, in the world of grown-ups, that's usually not a problem. I've never, in my entire working career, sent an Office document to somebody and had them not be able to easily use it. I would not do business with a fanatic that refused to buy Office.
Bittorrent is a crappy substitute for Netflix's DVD service. I mean, I guess it's fine, as long as you want to risk your legal ass to watch crappy versions of teen movies with Hindi subtitles. I wish my standards were as low as yours!
The DVD rental is the only part of Netflix that's worth using. Maybe if you're from TV-land (cable, satellite), and you're used to having what you watch dictated to you, then you'd find Netflix streaming adequate. I tried it for a while, but to say the selection was bad wouldn't be fair to the word "bad". It's fucking terrible.
"We already have something much better, more convenient, more reliable, more interoperative, which also come with that good feeling that the technophobes in Hollywood aren't getting your money."
I don't eat at chains. It sounds like that's what you're talking about. Try looking for restaurants that are locally owned and cook actual food. In a city of several million, I'm guessing there are quite a few. In my city of a few tens of thousand, there are lots of them. My BMI is 21.
Most regular people don't need to, and probably shouldn't be connected 24/7. Some people (I include myself) do need to be connected all of the time, but most people don't. They just like the toys, and pretending that they're important/busy enough that they need to be able to communicate with people all the time.
Facebook stock is worth what people will pay for it. Period. Any kind of "valuation" based on anything else is complete and total bullshit. The only value the stock has is what people will pay for it, and that's based on nothing at all. The only actual "valuation" a stock can have is if it pays regular dividends, which most stocks don't do at all any more.
I know cooking in the hobby du jour, but I couldn't give a shit. I can go out and get some freshly cooked, healthy food for a few bucks. It isn't worth my time to cook my own food, any more than it's worth my time to re-solder parts on a circuit board in my microwave.
I think part of the problem is that being a craftsman isn't cool anymore...
You're apparently unfamiliar with the massive hipster DIY craze sweeping the US, and centered in Brooklyn, NY. If anything, being a craftsman is the definition of "cool" these days.
I'd ask the question of any provider of any free service. Skype, web-based email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. You generally get what you pay for, and if you're not paying for anything, you'd be a fool to expect a solution with no downsides at all.
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Quickbooks and Quicken are similar only in that they are owned by the same company. They are not related in any other way. It sounds like you're giving too much weight to the "Quick" part of the names.
Gnucash is to Quickbooks like Notepad is to MS Office. Gnucash has no functionality for any kind of business accounting.
Excel and Quickbooks are as similar to each other as Quicktime and Oracle: they're not in any way similar.
Quickbooks is an accounting package, not inventory/point of sale. It sounds like your last job involved pounding nails in with a screwdriver.
I'd be willing to bet a few billion dollars that a competent group of people could implement QB in under a quarter of the lines of code while both improving the quality and making it significantly faster in every regard.
So then why has nobody come up with a better product, then, Mr. Billionaire?
Intuit makes the most widely used accounting software on the planet. They have significance, but you're just clueless.
That's exactly right.
Start-up entrepreneurs cannot evade the discipline of the capital markets any more than can the prime ministers of Spain and Italy.'
Sure they can. They can maintain their own equity and grow the company with cash. You only have to deal with the capital markets if you get greedy, in which case, you get what you deserve.
So you purposely turn away business because of your fanatical attachment to a single file format/application, when you could perfectly easily export to a PDF?
Yes.
What company do you claim to work at? I am sure your manager would love to hear about your antics.
You're talking to him.
Bingo. I agree completely. But it doesn't just apply to customers. It also applies to vendors, as well. If somebody is going to bitch about common business software, then I'm not going to bother.
And yes, I am a decision maker. I don't have a manager.
If I send somebody a Word document, and they say, "I don't have Office", then that says to me that this person A. Isn't serious about whatever they do B. Isn't willing to spend a few hundred bucks to interoperate with the rest of the adult world, or C. is wasting my time for the sake of some juvenile, idealistic silliness. I've got better stuff to do than to play some kind of geek games.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, in 2012 if you're using Office for anything more complex than a letter to mom or a school book report - you're probably doing it wrong.
Ok, whatever you say. Best of luck with that.
What a stupid fucking article. "Junkweb". Are you kidding me? Most people are really fucking stupid. They do stupid things. End of story.
Of course, the guy who wrote it is "President of Human Business Works, helping (mostly larger) companies with customer acquisition and community nurturing by amplifying the human digital channel". Even his job title/business(?) is bullshit.
To you, anyone who avoids using office isn't just an advocate of open systems, he's a fanatic.
That's right. Office is a few hundred bucks. It's a cost of doing business. Insisting on not purchasing one of the more important tools for most businesses over some half-baked pre-pubescent ideology is fanatical.
You are right, opening Microsoft proprietary documents on other systems is a pain.
Luckily, in the world of grown-ups, that's usually not a problem. I've never, in my entire working career, sent an Office document to somebody and had them not be able to easily use it. I would not do business with a fanatic that refused to buy Office.
Bittorrent is a crappy substitute for Netflix's DVD service. I mean, I guess it's fine, as long as you want to risk your legal ass to watch crappy versions of teen movies with Hindi subtitles. I wish my standards were as low as yours!
The DVD rental is the only part of Netflix that's worth using. Maybe if you're from TV-land (cable, satellite), and you're used to having what you watch dictated to you, then you'd find Netflix streaming adequate. I tried it for a while, but to say the selection was bad wouldn't be fair to the word "bad". It's fucking terrible.
"We already have something much better, more convenient, more reliable, more interoperative, which also come with that good feeling that the technophobes in Hollywood aren't getting your money."
And this thing is...?
I don't eat at chains. It sounds like that's what you're talking about. Try looking for restaurants that are locally owned and cook actual food. In a city of several million, I'm guessing there are quite a few. In my city of a few tens of thousand, there are lots of them. My BMI is 21.
Most regular people don't need to, and probably shouldn't be connected 24/7. Some people (I include myself) do need to be connected all of the time, but most people don't. They just like the toys, and pretending that they're important/busy enough that they need to be able to communicate with people all the time.
Facebook stock is worth what people will pay for it. Period. Any kind of "valuation" based on anything else is complete and total bullshit. The only value the stock has is what people will pay for it, and that's based on nothing at all. The only actual "valuation" a stock can have is if it pays regular dividends, which most stocks don't do at all any more.
That's a really stupid fucking quote, and if anything, is an excellent example of the pointlessness of this article.
I know cooking in the hobby du jour, but I couldn't give a shit. I can go out and get some freshly cooked, healthy food for a few bucks. It isn't worth my time to cook my own food, any more than it's worth my time to re-solder parts on a circuit board in my microwave.
I think part of the problem is that being a craftsman isn't cool anymore...
You're apparently unfamiliar with the massive hipster DIY craze sweeping the US, and centered in Brooklyn, NY. If anything, being a craftsman is the definition of "cool" these days.
I'd ask the question of any provider of any free service. Skype, web-based email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. You generally get what you pay for, and if you're not paying for anything, you'd be a fool to expect a solution with no downsides at all.