I support Quickbooks as a consultant/sysadmin for SMBs. One of my biggest gripes about QB is that if the client PCs arn't configured correctly, it will attempt to take over the role of sharing out the file while the actual file is still on the server. And it's compounded by the fact Windows XP doesn't route data over the ethernet as a priority over WiFi connection. It can get ugly in the office real quick over "who has the file open". The proper way is to install over the server side hosting agent on the server, and clients arn't configured to host. Although some users get confused over the concept of "hosting" vs "multi-user mode". Bah!!! Curses!
The other major problem is that Quickbooks accounting administrators are not performing backups. Sure, Windows Backup or Backup Exec may be capturing the file. But that's not the same thing. The transaction log will not flush until after Quickbooks itself is allowed to perform a full backup with verification. Sometimes if you wait too long, the entire damn thing gets corrupted. In fact, one of my clients is facing this very problem. She wants to upgrade to the latest version of QB. But until the data can be repaired (if possible) via special services at Intuit, she has no safe way of converting the file without it either bombing out or causing even more corruption.
Quickbooks is the one thing that keeps Windows on my machine, and is the only reason I ever boot into it.
I tried hard to beat WINE into running it, but alas no luck - at least the version I run.
I looked at what's out there in Linux accounting software, and either it was really obscure, apparently abandoned, or aimed at mega-corps, not small and home businesses. Plus none of it offered an easy way to handle Canadian tax frameworks.
How about PostBooks? Runs on Macs and Linux (and even Windows). And since xTuple is based in Canada, I'm pretty sure they understand Canadian Tax Laws. And if you outgrow it, you can move up to the full-blown (non-free) xTuple ERP system.
Dynamics is fine as long as you don't involve the POS CRM module (at least that was the case six years ago when I last had to deal with that evil, evil pile of junk).
WHICH Dynamics? Great Plains, Navision, or Axapta?
They are ALL considered "Microsoft Dynamics", but are not in ANY real way "related" (well, Navision and Axapta share some history) other than Microsoft has spent the past 10 years RUINING each of them in its own special way...
If the form asks how many lines he wrote, why is he including lines he deleted?
Do you "write" deleted lines? No.. then stop being a smart ass and put what you wrote on the form.
You must be a real joy at parties.
He was trying to make a point. And a good one at that.
And I dare say Bill Atkinson can program circles around most anyone you could name. His 68k assembler code in the Macintosh Toolbox was the very model of efficiency.
So yes. Yes you DO put deleted lines in that form, as they were "altered" in the process of development, you pedantic dullard.
Given that they haven't managed to come out with a native version of Quicken for Mac in over 6 years, I suspect that they kept that code on a napkin... then lost the napkin.
Pretty disgusting for (yet) a(nother) company who owes its success to the Apple ][.
For those of you too young to remember, Quicken started out as an Apple ][ ONLY checkbook program written in (of all things) Pascal.
Read the article. Valve certainly hopes they can continue to sell most of their volume on Windows but they are stating on the record the Linux port is a hedge against a future where that won't be possible.
If you think about it, it is almost certain that Steam on Windows is a dead product as soon as the lockdown hits x86. In a world of a single vendor app store Steam is, by definition, forbidden.
Notice that, for now, Apple isn't even discussing locking OS X. They understand that step is an outright declaration of WAR! on a lot of the existing ecosystem. MIcrosoft is taking a huge risk but they pretty much have to because Win8 is one OS vs iOS and OS X.
Not to mention that Apple would be DAFT (and they aren't daft!) to drive developers away from the platform, especially when it has (finally!) gotten them interested en masse.
What is really going on is that Apple simply wants to establish the Mac App Store (much like the iOS App Store) as a safe haven, where users (remember them? The ones that actually BUY a developer's output?) can go and purchase software that not only is, to the best of Apple's ability to determine, malware-free; but employs what Apple considers to be "best practices" in its design. And one of those "best practices" is, to the chagrin of some developers, "sandboxing".
And always keep in mind that Apple does not force OS X developers to use these guidelines; it merely means that those developers have to distribute their wares in what was not only the only way possible before the App Store, but one that most Slashdotters seem to think is better in the first place!
'our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform.'"
What this REALLY means is "We can't get the damned thing to work, and the hardware engineering team is fighting with the software engineering team over whose at fault."
So we're killing the product.
Please. Like no one at MS considered before embarking on the "Surface" project that their hardware OEM "partners" might consider it a direct threat? Riiiiiiight.
Nope. This is just an excuse to kill of a dog of a (non)-product without revealing the real reason: Engineering incompetence at MS (or whoever is actually doing the Surface) from top to bottom and side to side.
Of course global warming is real. And a good thing too, the average temps of a body without CO2 at 1 AU (like, I don't know, the moon?) is -10F. But it the increase is man-made, then the increased temps on Mars must be from the emissions from all those NASA rovers there, eh? Hello! The sun is a mildly variable star.
Exactly!
The human input into the global climate equation is, barring pretty much anything short of humans triggering a Krakatoa-sized volcanic eruption, fairly laughably insignificant.
The solar input into the global climate equation, however...
So, the obvious answer is to pass legislation to regulate the Sun's output.
Sorry fanboy, Apple used Sony's design, that's extremely clear to all but the most myopic Apple cult member. They had their own staff copy Sony's design for comparisons to their own (awful) design, they even included the Sony logo.
There was no "design" to "copy" when Apple went to work on the iPhone design. Sony DESCRIBED a product design IDEA, and then Apple incorporated that idea as a design element in an ORIGINAL product.
That's how all product design works. And if you don't think so, you're deluded.
Oh, and "weeping" and "crying" are the same thing, unless you have festering open sores.
Well, I think you are confusing some things. I am no big fan of apple but I think it is worth correcting some things that have been said. First of all, xerox is a company not a product. One of the big achievements of Xerox was the alto, an early and capable gui system. Macintosh copied heavily the ideas of the alto, however apple ][ was released before the Macintosh. Apple ][ was a console system. The alto was a "lisp" machine, where the Macintosh was programmed in assembler to be able to run on the much slower hardware. Big differences.
Cheers,
-S
Um, the CPU in the 128k Mac and the Lisa was the same 8 MHz MC68000. And the Lisa and Mac were both "programmed" in a combination of Smalltalk, Pascal, and 68k Assembler.
Guys- is it ever any surprise that apple copies a design? They design well, but that is because all of their work is second generation. They take a concept then make it shiny, and sell it. They don't make concepts. Hell- the apple 2 was literally a XEROX!
Wow. Are we so far out in computing history that we don't remember the difference between an Apple ][ (designed in 1976 and first sold by Apple in 1977), and the Lisa (first designed by Apple in 1978 and first sold by Apple in 1981)?
And oh, BTW, Apple didn't "copy Xerox". Apple was shown some technology that Xerox PARC was working on, then they started riffing on it, bringing many improvements. Then, Apple LICENSED the tech from Xerox.
There is a little known drug on the market called Cycloset that works for Type 2 Diabetes, and part of it is working on the biological clock. Its been around a few years, but it was out of patent before it got approved so most doctors don't even know about it.
Oh, you mean Parlodel Bromocriptine! That drug has been around for years, and has long been the darling of life-extension advocates as a powerful antioxidant. It is yet another ergot alkaloid discovered by the late, great Dr. Albert Hoffman. In fact, Durk and Sandy Pearson first spoke of its MANY benefits in their way-ahead-of-its-time book "Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach", reportedly published in 1982 (although I swear it was a few years earlier). It's a very interesting book, and well worth trying to find. I'm glad to see that Bromocriptine is finally getting a little love. In fact, speaking of "love", Bromocriptine also inhibits Prolactin, which is widely thought to decrease sex drive. So it's a win-win-win drug!
Perpetual machines don't exist and we can't get free energy out of nothing. Eventually, restricting diet will lower weight.
And people really really don't realize how much they eat (they are not dishonest, they just don't realize).
Your "solution" only works under the conditions of "The Final Solution".
NO living being has the "willpower" to ignore continual, gut-gnawing hunger, with the weakness and illness that accompanies it.
While I certainly agree that today's nutritionally-dense foods are very easy to lose track of, it just isn't possible to ask people to VOLUNTARILY "starve themselves". It almost NEVER works.
And it is not because people lack the "willpower". It's because we're genetically-predisposed to make FOOD a priority, even over sex...
In fairness, the majority of people who find themselves in this situation are actually a victim of their mouth; as in what they've been putting into it for the previous many years. In far too many cases, people have diabetes because they are horribly obsese and they are horribly obese because they've crammed cookies down their own throat without any regard for their long term prognosis.
In fairness, I never grew up in a household that had "the cookie jar", or a mom that baked cakes, pies, etc. often. We also did NOT have sweetened drinks (pretty much just water or unsweetened tea). And yet, as soon as I hit puberty (thanks, God! (rollseyes)), I INSTANTLY went from "so-skinny-they-thought-I-had-leukemia" (really!), to a BLIMP. It happened over a period of less than a year.
So don't give me your pious bullshit about "cramming cookies", fucktard.
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This!
I support Quickbooks as a consultant/sysadmin for SMBs. One of my biggest gripes about QB is that if the client PCs arn't configured correctly, it will attempt to take over the role of sharing out the file while the actual file is still on the server. And it's compounded by the fact Windows XP doesn't route data over the ethernet as a priority over WiFi connection. It can get ugly in the office real quick over "who has the file open". The proper way is to install over the server side hosting agent on the server, and clients arn't configured to host. Although some users get confused over the concept of "hosting" vs "multi-user mode". Bah!!! Curses!
The other major problem is that Quickbooks accounting administrators are not performing backups. Sure, Windows Backup or Backup Exec may be capturing the file. But that's not the same thing. The transaction log will not flush until after Quickbooks itself is allowed to perform a full backup with verification. Sometimes if you wait too long, the entire damn thing gets corrupted. In fact, one of my clients is facing this very problem. She wants to upgrade to the latest version of QB. But until the data can be repaired (if possible) via special services at Intuit, she has no safe way of converting the file without it either bombing out or causing even more corruption.
Poor excuses for poorly-written software. Period.
Quickbooks is the one thing that keeps Windows on my machine, and is the only reason I ever boot into it.
I tried hard to beat WINE into running it, but alas no luck - at least the version I run.
I looked at what's out there in Linux accounting software, and either it was really obscure, apparently abandoned, or aimed at mega-corps, not small and home businesses. Plus none of it offered an easy way to handle Canadian tax frameworks.
How about PostBooks? Runs on Macs and Linux (and even Windows). And since xTuple is based in Canada, I'm pretty sure they understand Canadian Tax Laws. And if you outgrow it, you can move up to the full-blown (non-free) xTuple ERP system.
Dynamics is fine as long as you don't involve the POS CRM module (at least that was the case six years ago when I last had to deal with that evil, evil pile of junk).
WHICH Dynamics? Great Plains, Navision, or Axapta?
They are ALL considered "Microsoft Dynamics", but are not in ANY real way "related" (well, Navision and Axapta share some history) other than Microsoft has spent the past 10 years RUINING each of them in its own special way...
keep the project streamlined and on time.
I think I just threw up a little...
$3.9 billion in revenue last year
Yet they whine about "spreading resources too thin" as an excuse for inexcusably bad Mac support...
Die, Intuit, Die. Die, Die Die.
As a QuickBooks user, who prefers it to MYOB at least, I ask this question in all honesty:
What else is out there for small businesses that's better than QuickBooks and isn't a cloud-based service?
Sure! How about PostBooks?
Simple, Open Source. FREE. Works on Macs, Linux, and oh, yeah, those Windows things.
I believe it even will read QuickBooks files, and will scale to the full-blown (not free) xTuple ERP system!
If the form asks how many lines he wrote, why is he including lines he deleted?
Do you "write" deleted lines? No.. then stop being a smart ass and put what you wrote on the form.
You must be a real joy at parties.
He was trying to make a point. And a good one at that.
And I dare say Bill Atkinson can program circles around most anyone you could name. His 68k assembler code in the Macintosh Toolbox was the very model of efficiency.
So yes. Yes you DO put deleted lines in that form, as they were "altered" in the process of development, you pedantic dullard.
How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code? Very carefully. Next question!
You meant "Not very well".
I briefly worked for Intuit. IIRC, their policy is to focus on Windows because they "... don't want to spread their resources to thin."
Yeah right. Like they can't afford to hire some Objective-C programmers.
As I said before, pretty disgusting for a company who owes its very EXISTENCE to Apple.
Given that they haven't managed to come out with a native version of Quicken for Mac in over 6 years, I suspect that they kept that code on a napkin... then lost the napkin.
Pretty disgusting for (yet) a(nother) company who owes its success to the Apple ][.
For those of you too young to remember, Quicken started out as an Apple ][ ONLY checkbook program written in (of all things) Pascal.
Read the article. Valve certainly hopes they can continue to sell most of their volume on Windows but they are stating on the record the Linux port is a hedge against a future where that won't be possible.
If you think about it, it is almost certain that Steam on Windows is a dead product as soon as the lockdown hits x86. In a world of a single vendor app store Steam is, by definition, forbidden.
Notice that, for now, Apple isn't even discussing locking OS X. They understand that step is an outright declaration of WAR! on a lot of the existing ecosystem. MIcrosoft is taking a huge risk but they pretty much have to because Win8 is one OS vs iOS and OS X.
Not to mention that Apple would be DAFT (and they aren't daft!) to drive developers away from the platform, especially when it has (finally!) gotten them interested en masse.
What is really going on is that Apple simply wants to establish the Mac App Store (much like the iOS App Store) as a safe haven, where users (remember them? The ones that actually BUY a developer's output?) can go and purchase software that not only is, to the best of Apple's ability to determine, malware-free; but employs what Apple considers to be "best practices" in its design. And one of those "best practices" is, to the chagrin of some developers, "sandboxing".
And always keep in mind that Apple does not force OS X developers to use these guidelines; it merely means that those developers have to distribute their wares in what was not only the only way possible before the App Store, but one that most Slashdotters seem to think is better in the first place!
'our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform.'"
What this REALLY means is "We can't get the damned thing to work, and the hardware engineering team is fighting with the software engineering team over whose at fault."
So we're killing the product.
Please. Like no one at MS considered before embarking on the "Surface" project that their hardware OEM "partners" might consider it a direct threat? Riiiiiiight.
Nope. This is just an excuse to kill of a dog of a (non)-product without revealing the real reason: Engineering incompetence at MS (or whoever is actually doing the Surface) from top to bottom and side to side.
According to the USGS [usgs.gov], man-made CO2 emissions are 35 billion tons per year
First: This is a government study, and we all know those are never incorrect, right?
Second: how can this even be measured with any reasonable degree of accuracy?
Of course global warming is real. And a good thing too, the average temps of a body without CO2 at 1 AU (like, I don't know, the moon?) is -10F. But it the increase is man-made, then the increased temps on Mars must be from the emissions from all those NASA rovers there, eh? Hello! The sun is a mildly variable star.
Exactly!
The human input into the global climate equation is, barring pretty much anything short of humans triggering a Krakatoa-sized volcanic eruption, fairly laughably insignificant.
The solar input into the global climate equation, however...
So, the obvious answer is to pass legislation to regulate the Sun's output.
"...Skewed for the interests of one set of billionaires.
"I have now been flipped, and am rewarded for serving the competing interest of an entirely opposed set of different billionaires.
"Everything you read is true. Especially if it is funded by large foundations."
FNORD
Precisely. Including the Illuminatus! reference.
Sorry fanboy, Apple used Sony's design, that's extremely clear to all but the most myopic Apple cult member. They had their own staff copy Sony's design for comparisons to their own (awful) design, they even included the Sony logo.
There was no "design" to "copy" when Apple went to work on the iPhone design. Sony DESCRIBED a product design IDEA, and then Apple incorporated that idea as a design element in an ORIGINAL product.
That's how all product design works. And if you don't think so, you're deluded.
Oh, and "weeping" and "crying" are the same thing, unless you have festering open sores.
Moron.
The Wired.com article is totally biased towards Apple.
An example is the SONY concept phone released in 2006.
Do you REALLY think that Apple designed and built the iPhone in ONE YEAR?!?
Well, I guess we can tell who's never worked on a REAL product design...
Well, I think you are confusing some things. I am no big fan of apple but I think it is worth correcting some things that have been said. First of all, xerox is a company not a product. One of the big achievements of Xerox was the alto, an early and capable gui system. Macintosh copied heavily the ideas of the alto, however apple ][ was released before the Macintosh. Apple ][ was a console system. The alto was a "lisp" machine, where the Macintosh was programmed in assembler to be able to run on the much slower hardware. Big differences.
Cheers, -S
Um, the CPU in the 128k Mac and the Lisa was the same 8 MHz MC68000. And the Lisa and Mac were both "programmed" in a combination of Smalltalk, Pascal, and 68k Assembler.
Guys- is it ever any surprise that apple copies a design? They design well, but that is because all of their work is second generation. They take a concept then make it shiny, and sell it. They don't make concepts. Hell- the apple 2 was literally a XEROX!
Wow. Are we so far out in computing history that we don't remember the difference between an Apple ][ (designed in 1976 and first sold by Apple in 1977), and the Lisa (first designed by Apple in 1978 and first sold by Apple in 1981)?
And oh, BTW, Apple didn't "copy Xerox". Apple was shown some technology that Xerox PARC was working on, then they started riffing on it, bringing many improvements. Then, Apple LICENSED the tech from Xerox.
They stole NOTHING.
Sounds like Atkins. According to some specialists, though, fructose (aka sugar, HFCS, etc.) is the carb you should be really worrying about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Um, what you call "sugar" is not fructose. It is sucrose.
There is a little known drug on the market called Cycloset that works for Type 2 Diabetes, and part of it is working on the biological clock. Its been around a few years, but it was out of patent before it got approved so most doctors don't even know about it.
Oh, you mean Parlodel Bromocriptine! That drug has been around for years, and has long been the darling of life-extension advocates as a powerful antioxidant. It is yet another ergot alkaloid discovered by the late, great Dr. Albert Hoffman. In fact, Durk and Sandy Pearson first spoke of its MANY benefits in their way-ahead-of-its-time book "Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach", reportedly published in 1982 (although I swear it was a few years earlier). It's a very interesting book, and well worth trying to find. I'm glad to see that Bromocriptine is finally getting a little love. In fact, speaking of "love", Bromocriptine also inhibits Prolactin, which is widely thought to decrease sex drive. So it's a win-win-win drug!
...where they put you on diabetes medication (metformin.)
As diabetes meds go, it's the best and safest by far. And in fact, it may even have anti-cancer benefits!
While you are not wrong.
Perpetual machines don't exist and we can't get free energy out of nothing. Eventually, restricting diet will lower weight. And people really really don't realize how much they eat (they are not dishonest, they just don't realize).
Your "solution" only works under the conditions of "The Final Solution".
NO living being has the "willpower" to ignore continual, gut-gnawing hunger, with the weakness and illness that accompanies it.
While I certainly agree that today's nutritionally-dense foods are very easy to lose track of, it just isn't possible to ask people to VOLUNTARILY "starve themselves". It almost NEVER works.
And it is not because people lack the "willpower". It's because we're genetically-predisposed to make FOOD a priority, even over sex...
That's why its usually recommended for people who sit all day looking at screens to just eat less.
And that's why it never works. Because it ISN'T just a "simple equation"; because there are compensatory feedback mechanisms in place.
In fairness, the majority of people who find themselves in this situation are actually a victim of their mouth; as in what they've been putting into it for the previous many years. In far too many cases, people have diabetes because they are horribly obsese and they are horribly obese because they've crammed cookies down their own throat without any regard for their long term prognosis.
In fairness, I never grew up in a household that had "the cookie jar", or a mom that baked cakes, pies, etc. often. We also did NOT have sweetened drinks (pretty much just water or unsweetened tea). And yet, as soon as I hit puberty (thanks, God! (rollseyes)), I INSTANTLY went from "so-skinny-they-thought-I-had-leukemia" (really!), to a BLIMP. It happened over a period of less than a year.
So don't give me your pious bullshit about "cramming cookies", fucktard.