Looks to me like Circuit City is being run into the ground, just looking at their sales patterns. You fire the people who can explain why a customer should buy an expensive HDTV, maybe you might expect it will be harder to sell them. You fire the best people in your stores and you remove any incentive for the lower paid ones to work harder.
Circuit City and Tweeter etc don't need unions to get milked; management is doing it.
There's a lot of major Windows apps that aren't certified for Vista yet. I'd guess most didn't start serious reprogramming till Microsoft froze the code and released it; no point in aiming at a moving target. We've had to push our target migration date back quite a few months.
I think you have to accept that you have to pay for some software, just to keep it updated in a decent fashion. You can't rely on volunteers to have the time or the will to fix things when they need fixing. Open Office and Mozilla work because the many of the developers get paid by corporations. I'd rather work on a browser than on an accounting/home finance program myself; who wouldn't? But I need both of them.
Quicken and Money (and Moneydance, for that matter) have plenty of bugs, but they're reasonably easy to use, and the learning curve is not too bad. Intuit and Microsoft have plenty of faults, but at least they make a token gesture at fixing bugs and offering support. Gnucash is not a real person's checkbook-credit card program; it's double-entry book-keeping. I don't want to be an accountant; I want to keep track of my spending without having to write or compile my own program to do it.
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Looks to me like Circuit City is being run into the ground, just looking at their sales patterns. You fire the people who can explain why a customer should buy an expensive HDTV, maybe you might expect it will be harder to sell them. You fire the best people in your stores and you remove any incentive for the lower paid ones to work harder. Circuit City and Tweeter etc don't need unions to get milked; management is doing it.
There's a lot of major Windows apps that aren't certified for Vista yet. I'd guess most didn't start serious reprogramming till Microsoft froze the code and released it; no point in aiming at a moving target. We've had to push our target migration date back quite a few months.
I think you have to accept that you have to pay for some software, just to keep it updated in a decent fashion. You can't rely on volunteers to have the time or the will to fix things when they need fixing. Open Office and Mozilla work because the many of the developers get paid by corporations. I'd rather work on a browser than on an accounting/home finance program myself; who wouldn't? But I need both of them.
Quicken and Money (and Moneydance, for that matter) have plenty of bugs, but they're reasonably easy to use, and the learning curve is not too bad. Intuit and Microsoft have plenty of faults, but at least they make a token gesture at fixing bugs and offering support. Gnucash is not a real person's checkbook-credit card program; it's double-entry book-keeping. I don't want to be an accountant; I want to keep track of my spending without having to write or compile my own program to do it.