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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:54:50 GMT, in
<i26g5a$mbn$1@news.eternal-september.org>, sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com (David
Kaye) wrote:

>John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
>>Do you not know about QIF export:
>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken_Interchange_Format>
>
>There's no getting through to people like you, is there?.  

No.  I focus on real solutions.  You focus on exaggerated problems.  ;)

>You and I are computer geeks.  We LIVE for these things.  Most people aren't.  
>That's why they hire us, when they can afford to.  And when they can't afford 
>a tech staff, they go with what they know, what others have, what's popular.

They do a great many things, some smart, many stupid.
Which keeps us in business.  ;)

>When I was a kid my aunt Rena's TV picture tube was going out.  She quoted 
>some ungodly price for a service guy to come out and fix it.  I told her that 
>she could buy the tube for 1/3 the price and install it herself.  She pulled 
>off her white gloves and adjusted her glasses and said, "I don't do the dirty 
>work.  I want to turn on the TV and have it work.  I don't care about the 
>insides."  Her specialty was doing high society teas and getting her friends 
>to donate their money to hospital foundations.  She just wanted the TV to 
>work.

Of course.  Which is why some of the smart ones turn to folks like us to
set up painless turnkey systems instead of trying to limp on their own.
I think your aunt would approve of that part.  But it's not smart to pay
top dollar out of laziness.  It's smart to pay a good mechanic to fix
your car, but not smart to pay more than you need to.

I think we just see this differently.  You see people doing QUickbooks
on their own as like your aunt.  I see them as more like you.  I think
your aunt might well have gone for a turnkey system running on Linux.

-- 
John

"Assumption is the mother of all screw ups."
[Wethern�s Law of Suspended Judgement]