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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Orchid XP v8 [mailto:voi### [at] dev null]
> Windows, on the other hand, is a vast lump of software purposely
> designed to be difficult to understand.
On the contrary, Microsoft spends a great deal of time trying to increase
programmer productivity. In fact, it's one of their core businesses.
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eero Ahonen [mailto:aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid]
> Well yes. Also Intel and AMD should be sued for selling processors able
> to do calculation needed in such things. Not to mention OS developers
> (MS, Apple, various Linux groups, Linus himself, etcetc) for making a
> software base that makes its part on making copying stuff possible. And
> harddrive makers, for making devices to *store* such illegal copies! Oh
> my, how can those companies do this for the community, it's so bad!
I wouldn't put it past the lawyers of this day and age to do just that...
By the way, isn't there a sin tax on blank optical media, based on the
assumption that a certain percentage of them *will* be used to illegally
copy material?
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Darren New wrote:
> Mueen Nawaz wrote:
>> You have a checking account with $1000.
>
> And where did *that* come from?
>
>> It has a way to handle money coming in from nowhere (e.g.
>> someone giving you money), so I'm sure you can throw away some as well...
>
> Not in double-entry bookkeeping. If someone gives you money, it comes
> from the "we owe that person money" account. :-)
I'm not getting the fussiness.
When you start any accounting, don't you have some initial funds to
start with?
In any case, just so that you know, the official way in Gnucash to do
this is that it has an "Opening Balance" account when you first begin.
That contains all that you begin with. You then move it from that
account to cash, checking, saving, credit cards, and any other
assets/liabilities you have. As in if you have $1000 in your checking
account, you'd move $1000 from the opening balance account to checking.
I think that should satisfy double entry bookkeeping. I use that
account for stuff like beginning balance, money people give me (all 0 of
them), lottery winnings, etc. I pretty much ignore that account except
for those few instances.
(And yes, you can rename that account to whatever you want, and
probably create multiple such accounts if you want to organize).
--
"I'm a lawyer." "Honest?" "No, the usual kind."
/\ /\ /\ /
/ \/ \ u e e n / \/ a w a z
>>>>>>mue### [at] nawazorg<<<<<<
anl
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Darren New wrote:
>> financial software "automatically" download statements was to go to
>> their website, click on "download statement", and select my software
>> to open the file by default!)
>
> Depending on the file format, this might be the right answer. :-)
Well, if that's good enough for you, it claims to handle QIF, OFX/QFX
and a few I've never heard of. Nevertheless, the Options do contain some
entries for online banking.
--
"I'm a lawyer." "Honest?" "No, the usual kind."
/\ /\ /\ /
/ \/ \ u e e n / \/ a w a z
>>>>>>mue### [at] nawazorg<<<<<<
anl
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>> Hmm, then some 3rd party releases firmware to copy DRM protected songs
>> to non-DRM protected format using the hardware, and the OEM gets sued to
>> bankruptcy for promoting such software to be developed :-)
>
> Well yes. Also Intel and AMD should be sued for selling processors able
> to do calculation needed in such things. Not to mention OS developers
> (MS, Apple, various Linux groups, Linus himself, etcetc) for making a
> software base that makes its part on making copying stuff possible. And
> harddrive makers, for making devices to *store* such illegal copies! Oh
> my, how can those companies do this for the community, it's so bad!
Yeh but AMD, Intel etc have not signed a license agreement for their CPUs
with some DRM company that stipulates they go to reasonable efforts to
prevent the DRM system being reverse engineered. Typically this means your
software shouldn't store any important decryption keys in a fixed RAM
location for any significant length of time, and that access to the hardware
is limited by eg cutting off unused IC pins or covering the IC itself in
some very-hard-to-remove-without-destroying-the-IC resin.
But yes, if MS decided that on Vista they would offer a mechanism to save
DRM files unencrypted, I imagine there would be some law suits :-)
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scott wrote:
>
> Yeh but AMD, Intel etc have not signed a license agreement for their
> CPUs with some DRM company that stipulates they go to reasonable efforts
> to prevent the DRM system being reverse engineered.
Well, that's true.
> Typically this
> means your software shouldn't store any important decryption keys in a
> fixed RAM location for any significant length of time, and that access
> to the hardware is limited by eg cutting off unused IC pins or covering
> the IC itself in some very-hard-to-remove-without-destroying-the-IC resin.
They could eg. make two-layered system, where first layer passes DRM'd
or plain audio to the second layer, which decodes the DRM and passes the
audio forward and give access to the first layer. That way different
control mechanisms, UI's etc (even support for new file formats, which
could be a no-bonus option from the DRM-parties) without letting to
crack the DRM's.
> But yes, if MS decided that on Vista they would offer a mechanism to
> save DRM files unencrypted, I imagine there would be some law suits :-)
They do offer a layer (OS), which makes possible to drive programs,
which decode DRM. Actually, the most famous and used one of such layers.
I think they just curse the pirates loud enough that they are believed
to be purely* on the DRM-gang's side.
*) Lets face it - piratism has made a strong part of userbase for
Windows and it still makes part of MS's profits. It also does decrease
MS's profit a bit, but I wouldn't be sure if the ending line is either
positive or negative. It would be best for them if their products
couldn't be pirated but everyone else's could, since a lot of other
companies products need MS-software to run on.
-Aero
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Chambers escreveu:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Orchid XP v8 [mailto:voi### [at] devnull]
>> Windows, on the other hand, is a vast lump of software purposely
>> designed to be difficult to understand.
>
> On the contrary, Microsoft spends a great deal of time trying to increase
> programmer productivity. In fact, it's one of their core businesses.
They have to increase programmer productivity because otherwise it'd be
impossible to deal with the difficult to understand Windows code. ;)
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Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> When you start any accounting, don't you have some initial funds to
> start with?
Yes. And they're balanced by an equal amount in the "we owe this much to the
lenders" and "we owe this much to the stockholders" accounts.
To be specific, double-entry bookkeeping has two columns of numbers (the
rows being accounts). Those two columns have to add up to the same number.
If you ever wind up with a positive difference, you're not doing it right.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.
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Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> Well, if that's good enough for you, it claims to handle QIF, OFX/QFX
> and a few I've never heard of.
That's the stuff. I'll check it out.
-
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.
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Invisible wrote:
> Sure, there are about 25,000 Mahjong clones for Linux. But how many
> large-scale games are there?
I personally *don't want one*. Large scale games are for people who have
time to spend exclusively on playing a game. I want games to play quickly
with no day-long storylines, and that use little enough CPU so I can play
them while waiting for a render to finish :)
I would like open-source versions of games like Bejeweled 2 (you've probably
heard of it) and Speedy Eggbert (an old platformer).
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