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One more thought on how the omer is clearly not applicable for the two pound diet.  It was a measure of dry volume, such as in measuring grain, it was not a measure of weight.  For the same volume according to the dry substance there can be a great difference in weight.

An omer (liter) of food will weigh about 2 pounds independent of water content.  Indeed, a liter of sweetened ice tea will weigh about 2 pounds.  So too will a liter of flour. At His service, Andrew — Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD Board-Certified Cardiologist ** Suggested Reading: (1) http://makeashorterlink.com/?L26062048 (2) http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2F325D1A (3) http://makeashorterlink.com/?X1C62661A (4) http://makeashorterlink.com/?U1E13130A (5) http://makeashorterlink.com/?K6F72510A (6) http://makeashorterlink.com/?I24E5151A (7) http://makeashorterlink.com/?I22222129

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One more thought on how the omer is clearly not applicable for the two pound diet.  It was a measure of dry volume, such as in measuring grain, it was not a measure of weight.  For the same volume according to the dry substance there can be a great difference in weight. An omer (liter)

An omer is 3 1/2 liters, not one liter. I expect this will join the Chung Parade of Unadmitted Blunders like the caloric content of bread or potatoes. Or maybe how many calories are expended in a 5 mile run… Stuff like that. Those biblical desert wanderers ate a whole lot of food in a day. Must have been pretty low caloric density, that manna. Looks like it was more like 7+ pounds. I don’t know how much manna weighs "independent of water." Neither does Chung. Doesn’t seem to stop him from pontificating anyway. Bob   of food will weigh about 2 pounds independent of water – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – content.  Indeed, a liter of sweetened ice tea will weigh about 2 pounds.  So too will a liter of flour.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – It seems to me I heard somewhere that Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD wrote in "Oh, someone has. http://www.heartmdphd.com/losewtnd.pdf" I would wait until the fixed diet is done, 4 areas of major flaws have been identified and there will soon resume a reformation project to complete it and remove the flaws.  We wait Andrew’s return as he will contribute his knowledge in one of the flaw areas, as he has already started to do in previous work on the fix project.  If you think you might have some contribution, here re the flaw areas not addressed well by the "diet" as it now is stated: energetics health nutrition exercise See Exodus 16:16-17 One Omer (2 pounds) of food (manna) is all a person needs independent of energetics, health, nutrition, or exercise.  This is by God’s design. He should know because He made us. He also made the manna of which we know virtually nothing. We don’t know if it conformed to any nutritional conditions that normal foods are bound to. So we can’t know the caloric density of it or the balance of nutrients. In short, it can’t be used as any sort of standard since we know nothing of it’s component criteria. And since an omer isn’t a liter, it blows the whole nonsense out of the water. But I expect we can count on Chung insisting that an omer is a liter no matter what sources are offered because of his "truth discernment ray" that doesn’t need logic, facts or actual experience to be absolutely correct in his pronouncements. The omer is a dry measure; one omer is 1/10 of an ephah and thus 1/100 of an homer.  The omer was about 3.36 quarts; how did you determine that 3.36 quarts of manna, which was described as like coriander seed*, equaled two pounds? One Omer is a volume measure of about one liter. No. It isn’t. http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z6E81224A This link Chung provides makes no reference to the actual volume of an omer. As usual, he either didn’t read it or thinks no one else will to get the truth of the matter. Here are a few that do: Webster’s Unabridged o’mer, n.  [Heb. Omer] an ancient Hebrew dry measure equal to about 3.7 quarts; one tenth of an ephah. <http://www.reference-guides.com/isbe/O/OMER/ OMER o’-mer (`omer): A dry measure, the tenth of an ephah, equal to about 7 1/2 pints. <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/omer o

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Is Bank Reconciliation included in Account Reconciliation?Or, Bank Reconciliation just refers to bank account;Account reconciliation refers to other accounts? Anyonce can help me?Thanks!

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Is Bank Reconciliation included in Account Reconciliation?Or, Bank Reconciliation just refers to bank account;Account reconciliation refers to other accounts? Anyonce can help me?Thanks!

Account Reconciliation may also refer to reconciling Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.  Bank Reconciliation is only related to the bank account. Wayne Brasch, CPA, M. S. Taxation

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May refer to A/R, A/P, and other accounts such as Credit Card, clearing, suspense, share capital, fixed assets, inventory, payroll liabilities, etc.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Is Bank Reconciliation included in Account Reconciliation?Or, Bank Reconciliation just refers to bank account;Account reconciliation refers to other accounts? Anyonce can help me?Thanks! Account Reconciliation may also refer to reconciling Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.  Bank Reconciliation is only related to the bank account. Wayne Brasch, CPA, M. S. Taxation

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Is Bank Reconciliation included in Account Reconciliation?Or, Bank Reconciliation just refers to bank account;Account reconciliation refers to other accounts? Anyonce can help me?Thanks!

Any reconciliation is an attempt to identify the differences between two records of the same thing and make necessary corrections, if any are required. Joe Bruno Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war) Ancient Roman Motto Visit my web page for pictures, music, and accounting services http://www.msnusers.com/Joepictures2008/shoebox.msnw

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snip.. Joe Bruno Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war) Ancient Roman Motto

Accountant’s Motto: Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur (Anything you say sounds grand, as long as you say it in Latin)

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – snip.. Joe Bruno Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war) Ancient Roman Motto Accountant’s Motto: Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur (Anything you say sounds grand, as long as you say it in Latin)

From MacBeth, Act V: ‘Tis a tale told by an idiot Full of sound and fury Signifying nothing Joe Bruno Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war) Ancient Roman Motto Visit my web page for pictures, music, and accounting services http://www.msnusers.com/Joepictures2008/shoebox.msnw

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I think what you are mostly running in to is you are trying to land a decent job in a small town.  I moved out of a small town (250,000-small to me) and moved to the bigger city two hours away.  Jobs have been plentiful and the pay has been much better.

Wow I live in a town of 17,000

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My 2 cents. An MBA will be valuable if you are in private and want a boost up that ladder. When I was looking in the job market 2 years ago employers did not put that much value in the MBA.  Don’t get me wrong it does not hurt but it does not seem to be the key to the city.  What did spark their interest was the years of public accounting experience I had.  With the experience I was able to transition in to a more fun  (if there is such a thing) and better paying job in private. With that said you are ahead of me as I am still working on my CPA certification.  I have a some classes to finish to fulfill the education requirement which I will be working at the graduate level.  I am going to go ahead and kill two birds with once stone and get an MBA since I need some of the same classes anyway. I think what you are mostly running in to is you are trying to land a decent job in a small town.  I moved out of a small town (250,000-small to me) and moved to the bigger city two hours away.  Jobs have been plentiful and the pay has been much better. I guess it all just depends on the local market. Greg

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m 29 got a degree in business (finally put myself through school), majored in CIS.  Was in Seattle and couldn’t find any decent entry-level work and I didn’t have much experience.  Couldn’t compete against those with a masters in comp sci who were totally tech–when I was much more business-oriented. So, since I always liked information/numbers/analysis–went back to school for another year or so and did basically a graduate-level accounting certificate.  Passed CPA exam and worked for awhile at a small firm.  Need a few more months to meet experience requirement. However, now I’m stuck in a small town for the next few years (husband is military and will retire in about six years hopefully, so maybe only 1-2 more moves max, then settling into an area that isn’t too small).  I know this is a slow time of the year–and most new staff accountants are hired right out of school, so I realize it will be harder to find a position.  I know wages in a small town are lower as well.  I am thinking now I may have to drive 90 minutes a day just to work at a decent-sized firm. But I’m really starting to finally see that just because you are a CPA–doesn’t mean security and decent pay anymore.  I was talking with the owner of a super small firm here (1-2 staff) and he was saying how he can’t compete with the large firms who can bid really low on jobs (they in turn are outsourcing, so that makes them even more competitive).  The small firms dry up, there’s less jobs, the jobs that remain pay less and are much harder to get. So, what do I do now?  What can I do to better myself and find something that won’t be outsourced?  I was thinking of getting an MBA part-time, in the hopes that after a few years of public accounting, I could more easily make the transition to the private sector if I wanted to—but this MBA would be from a small state school.  I’ve always heard MBAs are worthless unless the school is very well-known OR you want the MBA to start your own business, already are established in your field and what to climb the ladder, etc.   But would this to be a waste of time and money?  Are MBAs just a dime a dozen and not any more hirable or worth more? Is there any path that looks like it would be a good bet for someone with my background?

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m 29 got a degree in business (finally put myself through school), majored in CIS.  Was in Seattle and couldn’t find any decent entry-level work and I didn’t have much experience.  Couldn’t compete against those with a masters in comp sci who were totally tech–when I was much more business-oriented. So, since I always liked information/numbers/analysis–went back to school for another year or so and did basically a graduate-level accounting certificate.  Passed CPA exam and worked for awhile at a small firm.  Need a few more months to meet experience requirement. However, now I’m stuck in a small town for the next few years (husband is military and will retire in about six years hopefully, so maybe only 1-2 more moves max, then settling into an area that isn’t too small).  I know this is a slow time of the year–and most new staff accountants are hired right out of school, so I realize it will be harder to find a position.  I know wages in a small town are lower as well.  I am thinking now I may have to drive 90 minutes a day just to work at a decent-sized firm. But I’m really starting to finally see that just because you are a CPA–doesn’t mean security and decent pay anymore.  I was talking with the owner of a super small firm here (1-2 staff) and he was saying how he can’t compete with the large firms who can bid really low on jobs (they in turn are outsourcing, so that makes them even more competitive).  The small firms dry up, there’s less jobs, the jobs that remain pay less and are much harder to get. So, what do I do now?  What can I do to better myself and find something that won’t be outsourced?  I was thinking of getting an MBA part-time, in the hopes that after a few years of public accounting, I could more easily make the transition to the private sector if I wanted to—but this MBA would be from a small state school.  I’ve always heard MBAs are worthless unless the school is very well-known OR you want the MBA to start your own business, already are established in your field and what to climb the ladder, etc.   But would this to be a waste of time and money?  Are MBAs just a dime a dozen and not any more hirable or worth more? Is there any path that looks like it would be a good bet for someone with my background?

Go ahead and complete the requirements for your CPA and continue working in public accounting, if you really want an MBA you can always find one online. If the commute to a large city is 45 minutes one way (90 min/day?) try to find a  public accounting position or audit job there, with that experience you transistion to private industry anytime.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I’m 29 got a degree in business (finally put myself through school), majored in CIS.  Was in Seattle and couldn’t find any decent entry-level work and I didn’t have much experience.  Couldn’t compete against those with a masters in comp sci who were totally tech–when I was much more business-oriented. So, since I always liked information/numbers/analysis–went back to school for another year or so and did basically a graduate-level accounting certificate.  Passed CPA exam and worked for awhile at a small firm.  Need a few more months to meet experience requirement. However, now I’m stuck in a small town for the next few years (husband is military and will retire in about six years hopefully, so maybe only 1-2 more moves max, then settling into an area that isn’t too small).  I know this is a slow time of the year–and most new staff accountants are hired right out of school, so I realize it will be harder to find a position.  I know wages in a small town are lower as well.  I am thinking now I may have to drive 90 minutes a day just to work at a decent-sized firm. But I’m really starting to finally see that just because you are a CPA–doesn’t mean security and decent pay anymore.  I was talking with the owner of a super small firm here (1-2 staff) and he was saying how he can’t compete with the large firms who can bid really low on jobs (they in turn are outsourcing, so that makes them even more competitive).  The small firms dry up, there’s less jobs, the jobs that remain pay less and are much harder to get. So, what do I do now?  What can I do to better myself and find something that won’t be outsourced?  I was thinking of getting an MBA part-time, in the hopes that after a few years of public accounting, I could more easily make the transition to the private sector if I wanted to—but this MBA would be from a small state school.  I’ve always heard MBAs are worthless unless the school is very well-known OR you want the MBA to start your own business, already are established in your field and what to climb the ladder, etc.   But would this to be a waste of time and money?  Are MBAs just a dime a dozen and not any more hirable or worth more? Is there any path that looks like it would be a good bet for someone with my background?

With you being a CPA and also having a degree in CIS, you are in an excellent position to become an IT auditor.  These are very lucrative positions and in addition the recently passed Sarbanes Oxley Act is quickly becoming better known as the "full employment act for IT auditors". I don’t know your location, but look in your area not just at CPA firms, but internal audit firms.  They are looking for people like you right now to do Sarbanes Oxley related work.  This type of work requires accountants that can understand the IT side as well.  If you don’t live close enough right now to work at one of these types of companies, instead of working on an MBA to kill some time, I would recommend studying for and passing the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam.  It is given every June.  You don’t have to have this certification for this type of work but it could definitely be a plus later. Hope this helps.  Good luck. Preston Singleton, CPA Austin, Texas

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m 29 got a degree in business (finally put myself through school), majored in CIS.  Was in Seattle and couldn’t find any decent entry-level work and I didn’t have much experience.  Couldn’t compete against those with a masters in comp sci who were totally tech–when I was much more business-oriented. So, since I always liked information/numbers/analysis–went back to school for another year or so and did basically a graduate-level accounting certificate.  Passed CPA exam and worked for awhile at a small firm.  Need a few more months to meet experience requirement. However, now I’m stuck in a small town for the next few years (husband is military and will retire in about six years hopefully, so maybe only 1-2 more moves max, then settling into an area that isn’t too small).  I know this is a slow time of the year–and most new staff accountants are hired right out of school, so I realize it will be harder to find a position.  I know wages in a small town are lower as well.  I am thinking now I may have to drive 90 minutes a day just to work at a decent-sized firm. But I’m really starting to finally see that just because you are a CPA–doesn’t mean security and decent pay anymore.  I was talking with the owner of a super small firm here (1-2 staff) and he was saying how he can’t compete with the large firms who can bid really low on jobs (they in turn are outsourcing, so that makes them even more competitive).  The small firms dry up, there’s less jobs, the jobs that remain pay less and are much harder to get. So, what do I do now?  What can I do to better myself and find something that won’t be outsourced?  I was thinking of getting an MBA part-time, in the hopes that after a few years of public accounting, I could more easily make the transition to the private sector if I wanted to—but this MBA would be from a small state school.  I’ve always heard MBAs are worthless unless the school is very well-known OR you want the MBA to start your own business, already are established in your field and what to climb the ladder, etc.   But would this to be a waste of time and money?  Are MBAs just a dime a dozen and not any more hirable or worth more? Is there any path that looks like it would be a good bet for someone with my background?

Work those few more required months, get your CPA certificate, and open your own accounting and tax service.  You can take this with you wherever you may have to go in the future.  There are hundreds of thousands businesses out there as well as millions of individuals that can use your services. I don’t think you need to spend more time and money in college.  Put you knowledge to good use!  Network and get some clients that way.  Talk to some bankers in your area as well as some lawyers.  They are usually good sources for new clients.  Talk to some real estate people about some of their new home sales.  There are many ways to build your own practice. Think about these things.  I wish you all the luck in the world with what you have already done and the potential you now have. Wayne Brasch, CPA, M. S. Taxation

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I’m 29 got a degree in business (finally put myself through school), majored in CIS.  Was in Seattle and couldn’t find any decent entry-level work and I didn’t have much experience.  Couldn’t compete against those with a masters in comp sci who were totally tech–when I was much more business-oriented. So, since I always liked information/numbers/analysis–went back to school for another year or so and did basically a graduate-level accounting certificate.  Passed CPA exam and worked for awhile at a small firm.  Need a few more months to meet experience requirement. However, now I’m stuck in a small town for the next few years (husband is military and will retire in about six years hopefully, so maybe only 1-2 more moves max, then settling into an area that isn’t too small).  I know this is a slow time of the year–and most new staff accountants are hired right out of school, so I realize it will be harder to find a position.  I know wages in a small town are lower as well.  I am thinking now I may have to drive 90 minutes a day just to work at a decent-sized firm. But I’m really starting to finally see that just because you are a CPA–doesn’t mean security and decent pay anymore.  I was talking with the owner of a super small firm here (1-2 staff) and he was saying how he can’t compete with the large firms who can bid really low on jobs (they in turn are outsourcing, so that makes them even more competitive).  The small firms dry up, there’s less jobs, the jobs that remain pay less and are much harder to get. So, what do I do now?  What can I do to better myself and find something that won’t be outsourced?  I was thinking of getting an MBA part-time, in the hopes that after a few years of public accounting, I could more easily make the transition to the private sector if I wanted to—but this MBA would be from a small state school.  I’ve always heard MBAs are worthless unless the school is very well-known OR you want the MBA to start your own business, already are established in your field and what to climb the ladder, etc.   But would this to be a waste of time and money?  Are MBAs just a dime a dozen and not any more hirable or worth more? Is there any path that looks like it would be a good bet for someone with my background?

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Greetings all – I’m considering an online school to get a Master’s in Accounting.  This would be a career change and would have to be online because of my location.  I’m interested in the forensic/audit aspect, so I’ve looked at Florida Atlantic’s program.  I’m also interested in the Keller graduate program in accounting. I’ve got a liberal arts Master’s, and 2 years of a JD, so completing the coursework doesn’t concern me.  I’ve also taken two basic accounting classes so I could make sure it interests me, and it does. Questions: Do either of the two programs mentioned raise any concerns?  Online programs in general ? The Florida Atlantic program seems to be very Forensic specific, while the Keller program seems to give a very solid foundation in fundamental accounting.  I’m afraid the depth of the Florida Atlantic program would be at the sacrifice of some breadth of core accouting. Anybody from Santa Rosa, CA or north looking for a midlife accounting rookie with too much education ? Thanks for any help or insight you can provide. Ziphius

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You would do better to try and get a CPA and CFE if you are looking for a career change. Most firms look for recruits with a prospectus for the CPA. The MAcc is just a little bonus selling point. You need to check the stringent guidelines for CA about what courses you need to have to sit for the CPA. Chances are you are looking at more schooling than you think. Janice

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Greetings all – I’m considering an online school to get a Master’s in Accounting.  This would be a career change and would have to be online because of my location. I’m interested in the forensic/audit aspect, so I’ve looked at Florida Atlantic’s program.  I’m also interested in the Keller graduate program in accounting. I’ve got a liberal arts Master’s, and 2 years of a JD, so completing the coursework doesn’t concern me.  I’ve also taken two basic accounting classes so I could make sure it interests me, and it does. Questions: Do either of the two programs mentioned raise any concerns?  Online programs in general ? The Florida Atlantic program seems to be very Forensic specific, while the Keller program seems to give a very solid foundation in fundamental accounting.  I’m afraid the depth of the Florida Atlantic program would be at the sacrifice of some breadth of core accouting. Anybody from Santa Rosa, CA or north looking for a midlife accounting rookie with too much education ? Thanks for any help or insight you can provide. Ziphius

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I think the mike block reality TV show has potential but if that doesn’t work out mike could do turbotax infomercials. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I think the Mike Block saga would actually make a pretty good story to have on one of the news programs. Not just in terms of Mike being exposed as a shill, but about the nature of the internet itself. What do you guys think ? How about a "reality TV" show?  It’s about as believable. Maybe you can toss in a dozen or so idiot women that think Mike is really Bill Gates and have then vie for his affections (not to mention his make believe billions) only to find out he’s a $14,500 a year accountant. That or y’all sit around and eat bugs on live TV. — Paul A. Thomas, CPA, PC Athens, Georgia

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I think the Mike Block saga would actually make a pretty good story to have on one of the news programs. Not just in terms of Mike being exposed as a shill, but about the nature of the internet itself. What do you guys think ?

I don’t think any of the alt.accounting regulars really care about the Mike Block saga.  I think you have us confused with the various tax related newsgroups. — Todd Stephens

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I think the Mike Block saga would actually make a pretty good story to have on one of the news programs. Not just in terms of Mike being exposed as a shill, but about the nature of the internet itself. What do you guys think ?

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I think the Mike Block saga would actually make a pretty good story to have on one of the news programs. Not just in terms of Mike being exposed as a shill, but about the nature of the internet itself. What do you guys think ?

How about a "reality TV" show?  It’s about as believable. Maybe you can toss in a dozen or so idiot women that think Mike is really Bill Gates and have then vie for his affections (not to mention his make believe billions) only to find out he’s a $14,500 a year accountant. That or y’all sit around and eat bugs on live TV. — Paul A. Thomas, CPA, PC Athens, Georgia

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I think most antidepressant/anxiety meds make you sleepy – some more than others.  I’ve been on Paxil for almost 2 years now (2 more weeks and I get to start weaning off … yeah!!!), still get really sleepy mid afternoon – but if I take it in the evening it seems to wire me.  Go figure!  The worst was when I was on Valium for lack of any other antidepressants – I think I was in a daze for a month before I refused to take any more.  Keep on your Dr., he should be able to find something that will work for you.  Just remember to keep taking those pills.  It takes 4-6 weeks before they reach the maximum benefit. Glad to hear he also ran lots of tests to make sure nothing else was going on.  I also had the hormones checked, to make sure that wasn’t accounting for my problems.  Haven’t done the cholesterol yet, will be having that checked in April. Congrats on fitting into those smaller jeans, doesn’t it feel good!!! I’m dreaming of 14’s, have a ways to go yet. LOL!  But even seeing my 18’s fit loosely again was a wonderful feeling. Have you tried the skinny cow fudge bars yet?  I found them for the first time in my grocery last week … they are wonderful and only 1 point!  Quite large, and very cholately – exactly like a fudgicle (sorry, no matter how I spell that it looks funny).  They have become my very favorite night time treat. Joyce – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey Guys & Gals, I got to the doctor and he gave me something new to try for my depression. Effexor or something like that, because Zoloft made me sleepy the last time I took it.  It’s kind of like antihistamines.  If I just take one of those, I can hardly keep my eyes open for three days!  He did some blood work also to check my thyroid function as well as I requested a serum electrolytes. He thought I asked for it because of my sugar but that isn’t why.  Seems like this particular test can show if your body chemicals (I think) are out of whack, like sodium vs. potassium…I could be wrong but I swear that’s what I read.  They are also checking my cholesterol, but the one time I had it checked, I had a very low one which is a good thing.  I was very surprised as I was weighing in around 180-200 even then and I thought heavier people had higher cholesterol counts.  He said it must be hereditary.  So we will see what kind of cholesterol count I get back, am hoping it is still going to be a good one.  One reason I hope that is that my older sister has a very very high cholesterol count and the doctor has told her that she is a heart attack just waiting to happen.  She is 5′1 and I don’t know how much she weighs, but she is wide so you can guess what I mean, I’m not good at guessing weight for short people (no offense intended) or even somebody only 2" taller than myself.  I have tried to interest her in this program to no avail. Today my daughter passed me down a pair of jeans that were too big for her, they were 14’s and they fit me perfectly.  But while she was holding them up I was looking at the wideness of them and I guess you all know what I was thinking…’gee my butt is still wide’ hehehehe  Definitely NOT going to be residing at this weight for any longer than I absolutely have to! Today I got very lucky.  I found peanut butter chocolate skinny cows, a whole bunch of them at one store (well considering 10 might be a while bunch when you are lucky to find even one of them)…I bought two and also some fat free yogurt but it still said 1/2 cup is like 100 something calories, sheesh that’s 2 points if I’m not mistaken. Anyway, it was good.  I found the fat free philadelphia cream cheese and some more laughing cow cheese so we got both.  I also got a package of wheat pasta.  Has anyone tried that seminola pasta and is that just as good for you as the wheat?  I don’t think that I’ve ever had it but isn’t it made from corn?  Eyikes, too rich for me if so.  Let me know.  I also broke down and got some OR smart pop popcorn. I checked all the low fat brands there and theirs was the only one that stated precisely the calories and servings for one bag.  The others said ‘about’ this or that many servings.  That is too iffy for me, I need exact. That is why I haven’t cooked my angel food cake yet.  Even though it says 1/12th is a serving, what if I cut the stupid thing off-kilter.  Then I might get more than 1/12th, sigh…..or cheat myself out of some portion. I’ve got frozen strawberries for it but I am just hesitant to do it. My daughter has been bugging me to cook it but I’ve told her to shut up finally.  hehehe there is a chocolate cake she can make any time she gets ready. She keeps bugging me to taste this or that.  Today she bought some sides from the grocery store, potato salad and noodle salad and kept trying to get me to taste it.  Then she asks me to taste the koolaid she made (using sugar) and not thinking, I took a small sip.  She is definitely on my bad list.  Those tastes would undoubtedly end up being at least 1 point and I’m not wasting my points on a taste test for someone else, lol My question is about the Graham Crackers.  We looked at Honey Maid and the other, Quaker’s brand and one box says a serving is one cracker.  The other says like 7 squares.  Also there are differences in the caloric content and the fat content I believe, although I don’t know if just 1g of fat is that much worse or better.  I want to make those little snack things when I get some freezer room but am not sure which kind to buy, which one is the least calories and points?  I know we are not supposed to count calories but that gives you some kind of indication when you don’t have your points converter with you. So today was a good day and some good finds for me  Got to have my snacks which makes me feel less like I’m dieting and more like I’m not Ozmee 200/163/120 MDC 150 Minigoal 160

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I’ve been on Paxil for almost 2 years, still get the sleepies from them.  And it isn’t a short nap.  If I give in and lay down in the afternoon, I could sleep for hours and hours if no one bothers to wake me.  It doesn’t bother me as much now, maybe I’ve just accepted it – gives me a nice excuse for a nap. <G Joyce – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I went to a doctor back around 1973 and she took one look at my fat self and said I must be depressed, and she put me on Estoril, a variation on Elavil. One dose  and I slept for 15 hours straight, missed a whole day’s work, never heard the alarm, slept all the next day, never called in.  Luckily my boss liked me and understood.  I never took another one.  So I understand the sleepiness! Supposedly it goes away if you stay on them long enough, like a couple of months.  Meanwhile you could get fired, or forget the baby someplace, or nod off driving. Carol Schmidt Hey Guys & Gals, I got to the doctor and he gave me something new to try for my depression. Effexor or something like that, because Zoloft made me sleepy the last time I took it.  It’s kind of like antihistamines.  If I just take one of those, I can hardly keep my eyes open for three days!  He did some blood work also to check my thyroid function as well as I requested a serum electrolytes. He thought I asked for it because of my sugar but that isn’t why.  Seems like this particular test can show if your body chemicals (I think) are out of whack, like sodium vs. potassium…I could be wrong but I swear that’s what I read.  They are also checking my cholesterol, but the one time I had it checked, I had a very low one which is a good thing.  I was very surprised as I was weighing in around 180-200 even then and I thought heavier people had higher cholesterol counts.  He said it must be hereditary.  So we will see what kind of cholesterol count I get back, am hoping it is still going to be a good one.  One reason I hope that is that my older sister has a very very high cholesterol count and the doctor has told her that she is a heart attack just waiting to happen.  She is 5′1 and I don’t know how much she weighs, but she is wide so you can guess what I mean, I’m not good at guessing weight for short people (no offense intended) or even somebody only 2" taller than myself.  I have tried to interest her in this program to no avail. Today my daughter passed me down a pair of jeans that were too big for her, they were 14’s and they fit me perfectly.  But while she was holding them up I was looking at the wideness of them and I guess you all know what I was thinking…’gee my butt is still wide’ hehehehe  Definitely NOT going to be residing at this weight for any longer than I absolutely have to! Today I got very lucky.  I found peanut butter chocolate skinny cows, a whole bunch of them at one store (well considering 10 might be a while bunch when you are lucky to find even one of them)…I bought two and also some fat free yogurt but it still said 1/2 cup is like 100 something calories, sheesh that’s 2 points if I’m not mistaken. Anyway, it was good.  I found the fat free philadelphia cream cheese and some more laughing cow cheese so we got both.  I also got a package of wheat pasta.  Has anyone tried that seminola pasta and is that just as good for you as the wheat?  I don’t think that I’ve ever had it but isn’t it made from corn?  Eyikes, too rich for me if so.  Let me know.  I also broke down and got some OR smart pop popcorn. I checked all the low fat brands there and theirs was the only one that stated precisely the calories and servings for one bag.  The others said ‘about’ this or that many servings.  That is too iffy for me, I need exact. That is why I haven’t cooked my angel food cake yet.  Even though it says 1/12th is a serving, what if I cut the stupid thing off-kilter.  Then I might get more than 1/12th, sigh…..or cheat myself out of some portion. I’ve got frozen strawberries for it but I am just hesitant to do it. My daughter has been bugging me to cook it but I’ve told her to shut up finally.  hehehe there is a chocolate cake she can make any time she gets ready. She keeps bugging me to taste this or that.  Today she bought some sides from the grocery store, potato salad and noodle salad and kept trying to get me to taste it.  Then she asks me to taste the koolaid she made (using sugar) and not thinking, I took a small sip.  She is definitely on my bad list.  Those tastes would undoubtedly end up being at least 1 point and I’m not wasting my points on a taste test for someone else, lol My question is about the Graham Crackers.  We looked at Honey Maid and the other, Quaker’s brand and one box says a serving is one cracker.  The other says like 7 squares.  Also there are differences in the caloric content and the fat content I believe, although I don’t know if just 1g of fat is that much worse or better.  I want to make those little snack things when I get some freezer room but am not sure which kind to buy, which one is the least calories and points?  I know we are not supposed to count calories but that gives you some kind of indication when you don’t have your points converter with you. So today was a good day and some good finds for me  Got to have my snacks which makes me feel less like I’m dieting and more like I’m not Ozmee 200/163/120 MDC 150 Minigoal 160

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I went to a doctor back around 1973 and she took one look at my fat self and said I must be depressed, and she put me on Estoril, a variation on Elavil. One dose  and I slept for 15 hours straight, missed a whole day’s work, never heard the alarm, slept all the next day, never called in.  Luckily my boss liked me and understood.  I never took another one.  So I understand the sleepiness! Supposedly it goes away if you stay on them long enough, like a couple of months.  Meanwhile you could get fired, or forget the baby someplace, or nod off driving. Carol Schmidt – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey Guys & Gals, I got to the doctor and he gave me something new to try for my depression. Effexor or something like that, because Zoloft made me sleepy the last time I took it.  It’s kind of like antihistamines.  If I just take one of those, I can hardly keep my eyes open for three days!  He did some blood work also to check my thyroid function as well as I requested a serum electrolytes. He thought I asked for it because of my sugar but that isn’t why.  Seems like this particular test can show if your body chemicals (I think) are out of whack, like sodium vs. potassium…I could be wrong but I swear that’s what I read.  They are also checking my cholesterol, but the one time I had it checked, I had a very low one which is a good thing.  I was very surprised as I was weighing in around 180-200 even then and I thought heavier people had higher cholesterol counts.  He said it must be hereditary.  So we will see what kind of cholesterol count I get back, am hoping it is still going to be a good one.  One reason I hope that is that my older sister has a very very high cholesterol count and the doctor has told her that she is a heart attack just waiting to happen.  She is 5′1 and I don’t know how much she weighs, but she is wide so you can guess what I mean, I’m not good at guessing weight for short people (no offense intended) or even somebody only 2" taller than myself.  I have tried to interest her in this program to no avail. Today my daughter passed me down a pair of jeans that were too big for her, they were 14’s and they fit me perfectly.  But while she was holding them up I was looking at the wideness of them and I guess you all know what I was thinking…’gee my butt is still wide’ hehehehe  Definitely NOT going to be residing at this weight for any longer than I absolutely have to! Today I got very lucky.  I found peanut butter chocolate skinny cows, a whole bunch of them at one store (well considering 10 might be a while bunch when you are lucky to find even one of them)…I bought two and also some fat free yogurt but it still said 1/2 cup is like 100 something calories, sheesh that’s 2 points if I’m not mistaken. Anyway, it was good.  I found the fat free philadelphia cream cheese and some more laughing cow cheese so we got both.  I also got a package of wheat pasta.  Has anyone tried that seminola pasta and is that just as good for you as the wheat?  I don’t think that I’ve ever had it but isn’t it made from corn?  Eyikes, too rich for me if so.  Let me know.  I also broke down and got some OR smart pop popcorn. I checked all the low fat brands there and theirs was the only one that stated precisely the calories and servings for one bag.  The others said ‘about’ this or that many servings.  That is too iffy for me, I need exact. That is why I haven’t cooked my angel food cake yet.  Even though it says 1/12th is a serving, what if I cut the stupid thing off-kilter.  Then I might get more than 1/12th, sigh…..or cheat myself out of some portion. I’ve got frozen strawberries for it but I am just hesitant to do it. My daughter has been bugging me to cook it but I’ve told her to shut up finally.  hehehe there is a chocolate cake she can make any time she gets ready. She keeps bugging me to taste this or that.  Today she bought some sides from the grocery store, potato salad and noodle salad and kept trying to get me to taste it.  Then she asks me to taste the koolaid she made (using sugar) and not thinking, I took a small sip.  She is definitely on my bad list.  Those tastes would undoubtedly end up being at least 1 point and I’m not wasting my points on a taste test for someone else, lol My question is about the Graham Crackers.  We looked at Honey Maid and the other, Quaker’s brand and one box says a serving is one cracker.  The other says like 7 squares.  Also there are differences in the caloric content and the fat content I believe, although I don’t know if just 1g of fat is that much worse or better.  I want to make those little snack things when I get some freezer room but am not sure which kind to buy, which one is the least calories and points?  I know we are not supposed to count calories but that gives you some kind of indication when you don’t have your points converter with you. So today was a good day and some good finds for me  Got to have my snacks which makes me feel less like I’m dieting and more like I’m not Ozmee 200/163/120 MDC 150 Minigoal 160

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Hey Guys & Gals, I got to the doctor and he gave me something new to try for my depression. Effexor or something like that, because Zoloft made me sleepy the last time I took it.  It’s kind of like antihistamines.  If I just take one of those, I can hardly keep my eyes open for three days!  He did some blood work also to check my thyroid function as well as I requested a serum electrolytes. He thought I asked for it because of my sugar but that isn’t why.  Seems like this particular test can show if your body chemicals (I think) are out of whack, like sodium vs. potassium…I could be wrong but I swear that’s what I read.  They are also checking my cholesterol, but the one time I had it checked, I had a very low one which is a good thing.  I was very surprised as I was weighing in around 180-200 even then and I thought heavier people had higher cholesterol counts.  He said it must be hereditary.  So we will see what kind of cholesterol count I get back, am hoping it is still going to be a good one.  One reason I hope that is that my older sister has a very very high cholesterol count and the doctor has told her that she is a heart attack just waiting to happen.  She is 5′1 and I don’t know how much she weighs, but she is wide so you can guess what I mean, I’m not good at guessing weight for short people (no offense intended) or even somebody only 2" taller than myself.  I have tried to interest her in this program to no avail. Today my daughter passed me down a pair of jeans that were too big for her, they were 14’s and they fit me perfectly.  But while she was holding them up I was looking at the wideness of them and I guess you all know what I was thinking…’gee my butt is still wide’ hehehehe  Definitely NOT going to be residing at this weight for any longer than I absolutely have to! Today I got very lucky.  I found peanut butter chocolate skinny cows, a whole bunch of them at one store (well considering 10 might be a while bunch when you are lucky to find even one of them)…I bought two and also some fat free yogurt but it still said 1/2 cup is like 100 something calories, sheesh that’s 2 points if I’m not mistaken. Anyway, it was good.  I found the fat free philadelphia cream cheese and some more laughing cow cheese so we got both.  I also got a package of wheat pasta.  Has anyone tried that seminola pasta and is that just as good for you as the wheat?  I don’t think that I’ve ever had it but isn’t it made from corn?  Eyikes, too rich for me if so.  Let me know.  I also broke down and got some OR smart pop popcorn. I checked all the low fat brands there and theirs was the only one that stated precisely the calories and servings for one bag.  The others said ‘about’ this or that many servings.  That is too iffy for me, I need exact. That is why I haven’t cooked my angel food cake yet.  Even though it says 1/12th is a serving, what if I cut the stupid thing off-kilter.  Then I might get more than 1/12th, sigh…..or cheat myself out of some portion. I’ve got frozen strawberries for it but I am just hesitant to do it. My daughter has been bugging me to cook it but I’ve told her to shut up finally.  hehehe there is a chocolate cake she can make any time she gets ready. She keeps bugging me to taste this or that.  Today she bought some sides from the grocery store, potato salad and noodle salad and kept trying to get me to taste it.  Then she asks me to taste the koolaid she made (using sugar) and not thinking, I took a small sip.  She is definitely on my bad list.  Those tastes would undoubtedly end up being at least 1 point and I’m not wasting my points on a taste test for someone else, lol My question is about the Graham Crackers.  We looked at Honey Maid and the other, Quaker’s brand and one box says a serving is one cracker.  The other says like 7 squares.  Also there are differences in the caloric content and the fat content I believe, although I don’t know if just 1g of fat is that much worse or better.  I want to make those little snack things when I get some freezer room but am not sure which kind to buy, which one is the least calories and points?  I know we are not supposed to count calories but that gives you some kind of indication when you don’t have your points converter with you. So today was a good day and some good finds for me  Got to have my snacks which makes me feel less like I’m dieting and more like I’m not Ozmee 200/163/120 MDC 150 Minigoal 160

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I wonder what the assumptions were to arrive at these "savings." My favorite was "nuclear power will be so cheap, it won’t pay to meter it." … One calculation showed annual U.S. business savings of $150 billion a year on only electronic bill presentment & payment, plus related automated entry in accounting systems and supplier balance confirmations. Total savings seem beyond analysis.

… — *             Ronald Lee Todd M.B.A., C.P.A.                  * *  Unemployed for five years, mistake of being an accountant. * *    From the Socialist People’s Republic of Kalifornia,      * *           the Seventh worst state for business,             * *                   Ayn Rand was right                        *

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XML is being used many to allow integration between different programs. ebXML will be used by the SEC, AICPA and all big CPA firms and public companies to automate extracting information from public company financial statements. Mike, I think you must mean one of those other "standards" like XBRL.

Yes, sorry. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -ebXML pretty much ignores accounting, much to Todd Boyle’s dismay.  It is a set of specifications for peer-to-peer business exchanges, maybe the next generation of EDI.  The specs include Messaging Services, Collaboration Partner Agreements (technical agreements on how to send messages back and forth), Business Process scripts, Core Components which are building blocks for business documents to be exchanged, and Repositories for keeping all of the above. The QuickBooks XML version is being used by QB and 3,500+ independent developers to link programs to QB2002 (due by 12/15). Sage, which owns Peachtree (the #1 QB competitor), has its Timeslips and ACT divisions already using QBXML. Oracle, through NetLedger, has a near identical XML version. It would be possible to use QBXML business documents with the ebXML infrastructure, and maybe get better security, reliability, transactional behavior and conformance to commercial law. I say "maybe" because none of this stuff has much of a track record yet, except traditional EDI and RosettaNet, which was one of the immediate ancestors of ebXML. -Bob Haugen

     Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

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QB2002 lets users instantly search the full QB knowledgebase by entering search terms in an easy to find in-program window. This rapidly growing collection of authoritative answers will provide far more free information, far faster, that the smartest group of QB experts. It will very much cut down on many Usenet requests for QB help. In fact, for most Usenet questions the best answer will be the very simple instructions on how to use the new free method. Yes, M$ got a very good knowledgebase long before QB had one, but only QB is making it instantly in-program accessible with an integrated search.

I am not clear.  Is this search a search of a PDF file mentioned below?  Or is it a search that requires MS’ Internet Explorer? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Pro Advisors will get 5 copies of the very quickly searchable PDF version of its excellent complete QB Manual (The Official Guide).

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – QB2002 lets users instantly search the full QB knowledgebase by entering search terms in an easy to find in-program window. This rapidly growing collection of authoritative answers will provide far more free information, far faster, that the smartest group of QB experts. It will very much cut down on many Usenet requests for QB help. In fact, for most Usenet questions the best answer will be the very simple instructions on how to use the new free method. Yes, M$ got a very good knowledgebase long before QB had one, but only QB is making it instantly in-program accessible with an integrated search. I am not clear.  Is this search a search of a PDF file mentioned below?  Or is it a search that requires MS’ Internet Explorer? Pro Advisors will get 5 copies of the very quickly searchable PDF version of its excellent complete QB Manual (The Official Guide).

Both, for the two unrelated things. For the knowledgebase you can enter a question within 2002. QB auto launches IE to get your web answers. For PDF searches of the Official Guide manual, it comes on a CD you search from a menu (without IE).      Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

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It is a question question, not a question to make a point.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Sorta lost here?  What has Oracle or QB have to do with XML as a standard ??? What’s your point?  You sound like you have something to contribute. TOdd

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Thanks Mike. But is not Intuit and Microsoft collaborating with the creation of the OFX  "Open Financial Exchange", specification. And will that not be revised with the IFX (Interactive FX) OFX is an open, licensing fee free standard. http://www.ofx.net/ofx/ab_faq.asp http://www.ifxforum.org/ Is not QB(XML) an interface to the "public" to exchange data with QuickBooks. Expanding on the word Public I understand that any "application" desktop or netbased should be able to exchange data with QB’s via qbxml but it is a QB xml interface that should interface with OFX the exchange standard.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Sorta lost here?  What has Oracle or QB have to do with XML as a standard ??? XML is a standardized way of exchanging data. However, its name alone suggests it was intended to be extended to cover many unrelated standardized exchanges. Electronic Data Exchange has long been standard for automating accounting data interchange between big companies. There are several variations of these fairly expensive programs, so few small businesses use it. XML is being used many to allow integration between different programs. ebXML will be used by the SEC, AICPA and all big CPA firms and public companies to automate extracting information from public company financial statements. The QuickBooks XML version is being used by QB and 3,500+ independent developers to link programs to QB2002 (due by 12/15). Sage, which owns Peachtree (the #1 QB competitor), has its Timeslips and ACT divisions already using QBXML. Oracle, through NetLedger, has a near identical XML version. Intuit QB has around 85% of the small business accounting program market, with 4+ million users. It seems inevitable that the 15 million Intuit Quicken users (around 70% of the home checkbook and investment program market) will soon get similar XML capability. With Sage ($13 billion market cap, mainly in middle and large accounting programs), Oracle and Microsoft (.net) also pushing such integration, we should soon have total automated business integration and linking. These efforts should soon let XML exchanges dwarf prior EDI efforts. The integration will end separate overlapping databases in companies and many manual decisions for accounting, contact management, due date control, faxes, email, image filing, automated word processing & documents completion, forms  processing, accounting, billing, tax returns, electronic bill presentment and payment, automated entry of ebills in accounting systems, automated reconciliation of supplier payments, shipping, financial analysis, credit control, bad debt collection, investment analysis and execution, web sales, customer and supplier information delivery, point of sale, automatic confirmation of supplier and customer balances, order processing and acknowledgement and countess custom programs. It will give us much more current and accurate information at much lower cost, vastly improving small business decision making. It also will facilitate increased use of low-priced remote personnel, for routine work, financial analysis and legal compliance. One calculation showed annual U.S. business savings of $150 billion a year on only electronic bill presentment & payment, plus related automated entry in accounting systems and supplier balance confirmations. Total savings seem beyond analysis. Boyle) I noted in the version 0.8 draft of QBXML, the Intuit XML schema for business transactions, the element for EIN has been dropped. <snip As I said long ago, Intuit’s QBXML will soon be a universal standard for small and big business data exchange. I also said the Oracle NetLedger XML spec was a near copy of QBXML (who knows who copied who). NL says it is now fully implemented. mosnip      Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

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Thanks Mike. But is not Intuit and Microsoft collaborating with the creation of the OFX  "Open Financial Exchange", specification. And will that not be revised with the IFX (Interactive FX) OFX is an open, licensing fee free standard. http://www.ofx.net/ofx/ab_faq.asp http://www.ifxforum.org/

Hasn’t the IFX and OFX been around for at least 4 years now?  What role do you anticipate IFX and OFX playing in regards to small business software?  Do banks accept *any* electronic message as a standard?   My impression is they just wait passively like Nile crocodiles, for anything that walks by, that they can charge fees for.  Because they control our money balances. Is not QB(XML) an interface to the "public" to exchange data with QuickBooks. Expanding on the word Public I understand that any "application" desktop or netbased should be able to exchange data with QB’s via qbxml but it is a QB xml interface that should interface with OFX the exchange standard.

How will the QBXML schema be used?  By locally installed applications like Quickbooks or just QBweb?  If it’s used for QB Web, how will the security be assured?  Will it be interactive or just a format for a batch submission (which I recommend)? Will it be allowed by anybody except between Intuit local and Web applications?  If so, what will be the license terms and pricing?   TOdd

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Thanks Mike. But is not Intuit and Microsoft collaborating with the creation of the OFX  "Open Financial Exchange", specification. And will that not be revised with the IFX (Interactive FX) OFX is an open, licensing fee free standard. http://www.ofx.net/ofx/ab_faq.asp http://www.ifxforum.org/

Yes, but I think that only covers where Quicken, QB, Money, etc., all need one interface to the banks and stock brokers. Is not QB(XML) an interface to the "public" to exchange data with QuickBooks. Expanding on the word Public I understand that any "application" desktop or netbased should be able to exchange data with QB’s via qbxml but it is a QB xml interface that should interface with OFX the exchange standard.

I think that QBXML covers sales orders, invoices, purchase orders, and many other types of transactions that are of no direct interest to banks. I would really like to be wrong and learn that the bank standard, which already works so well for so many (except one big clients bank) is being extended to cover all types of accounting data exchanges. However, the fact that QB created the QBXML term makes me think otherwise. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Sorta lost here?  What has Oracle or QB have to do with XML as a standard ??? XML is a standardized way of exchanging data. However, its name alone suggests it was intended to be extended to cover many unrelated standardized exchanges. Electronic Data Exchange has long been standard for automating accounting data interchange between big companies. There are several variations of these fairly expensive programs, so few small businesses use it. XML is being used many to allow integration between different programs. ebXML will be used by the SEC, AICPA and all big CPA firms and public companies to automate extracting information from public company financial statements. The QuickBooks XML version is being used by QB and 3,500+ independent developers to link programs to QB2002 (due by 12/15). Sage, which owns Peachtree (the #1 QB competitor), has its Timeslips and ACT divisions already using QBXML. Oracle, through NetLedger, has a near identical XML version. Intuit QB has around 85% of the small business accounting program market, with 4+ million users. It seems inevitable that the 15 million Intuit Quicken users (around 70% of the home checkbook and investment program market) will soon get similar XML capability. With Sage ($13 billion market cap, mainly in middle and large accounting programs), Oracle and Microsoft (.net) also pushing such integration, we should soon have total automated business integration and linking. These efforts should soon let XML exchanges dwarf prior EDI efforts. The integration will end separate overlapping databases in companies and many manual decisions for accounting, contact management, due date control, faxes, email, image filing, automated word processing & documents completion, forms  processing, accounting, billing, tax returns, electronic bill presentment and payment, automated entry of ebills in accounting systems, automated reconciliation of supplier payments, shipping, financial analysis, credit control, bad debt collection, investment analysis and execution, web sales, customer and supplier information delivery, point of sale, automatic confirmation of supplier and customer balances, order processing and acknowledgement and countess custom programs. It will give us much more current and accurate information at much lower cost, vastly improving small business decision making. It also will facilitate increased use of low-priced remote personnel, for routine work, financial analysis and legal compliance. One calculation showed annual U.S. business savings of $150 billion a year on only electronic bill presentment & payment, plus related automated entry in accounting systems and supplier balance confirmations. Total savings seem beyond analysis. Boyle) I noted in the version 0.8 draft of QBXML, the Intuit XML schema for business transactions, the element for EIN has been dropped. <snip As I said long ago, Intuit’s QBXML will soon be a universal standard for small and big business data exchange. I also said the Oracle NetLedger XML spec was a near copy of QBXML (who knows who copied who). NL says it is now fully implemented. mosnip      Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

     Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

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More from Rich Walker to me: Thanks for asking for clarification on our program updates, and I appreciate your helping to inform our members and prospective members.   As you noted, we have made many improvements to the benefits and overall value of the QuickBooks Professional Advisors Program.   It will be a new and different program in the near future … one that allows Advisors to choose whether they want the program components separately (some told us they didn’t need the technical support aspect, while others wanted the "full boat"  We believe that the new program will connect our Advisors more closely to Intuit, and will provide a better means to measure the business- building opportunities we provide. The QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center, our new QuickBooks Marketing Toolkit, and our upcoming referral program that will track and reward our members based on QuickBooks referrals to their clients….these are three immediate examples of our commitment to increasing the value of this Program. To answer your questions below: TECHNICAL SUPPORT OFFERINGS On November 5, we launched our new QuickBooks Professional Advisors Program new-member pricing and offerings.  Anyone who was a current Professional Advisor will continue to have their 15 incidents of technical support until their next membership expiration date. We found in a recent survey that about 30% of our members didn’t use technical support at all, and those who did averaged 5 incidents per year. Our internal technical support costs have substantially increased, but rather than charge all Advisors the same price for technical support when they had very different needs, we chose to provide more flexibility within the Program, where they could choose this exclusive support package if and when they need it. When it is time for a ProAdvisor to renew membership, he or she will have the option to purchase our ProAdvisor-specific 5-incident technical support package for an additional fee. As of November 5th, those who purchase a new ProAdvisor membership have the option of also purchasing this 5-incident technical support package. In addition, there is a support plan designed for purchasers of QuickBooks Premier- Accountants Edition that will allow unlimited calls. QUICKBOOKS PRO 5-USER PACK UPDATE Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors will not be receiving the QuickBooks Pro 5-User Pack in their Auto-Upgrade.  All ProAdvisors, including those who are Certified, will instead be receiving a copy of the new highly-anticipated QuickBooks Premier 2002: Accountant Edition.  However, if a Certified ProAdvisor would like to upgrade their current QuickBooks Pro 5-User Pack, we have increased the ProAdvisor discount from 15% to 20% for this 5-User Pack if they choose to purchase the software. RENEWAL PRICING While we launched our new membership pricing on November 5th, our RENEWAL pricing will not launch until December 1st.  Those PAP members who would like to renew their membership prior to December 1st will be able to purchase at the current renewal prices ($209.95 for ProAdvisors and $259.95 for Certified ProAdvisors) before our price increase.  They will also be locked into the current offering of 15 incidents of technical support.  One thing to note, however, is that ProAdvisors can renew months in advance if they want to take advantage of the current renewal price and tech support package, but the 15- incidents of tech support will end either on their expiration date, or November 30, 2002, which ever comes first.  If, for example, someone expires in January 2002 and renews before December 1st, 2001, their expiration date will move to January 2003, but their 15 incidents of tech support will expire on November 30, 2002. I hope this clears up some of your questions. Rich      Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

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At the ofx site (http://www.ofx.net/ofx/default.asp) you have to register (leave a name and address), but the download is free. I did it last April and have it on my hard drive. It’s about a 5 mb file or I’d email it.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I tried to download the goodies, but best I can determine, it says I need to sign a developer agreement and pay $1,000. Am I missing anything, or is that the case? Thanks again, Bob Haugen P.S. I checked out OFX, but that seems to be about doing business with your bank instead of each other. Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but is there somewhere I can see the QBXML document formats? Thanks, Bob Haugen Here you go. http://developer.intuit.com http://developer.intuit.com/library/quickbooks.asp

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<snip IFX is a work inprogress, OFX is operational. It would seem that XML  is being accepted as a standard for data transfer. I just did some research on health system billing and the local and international standard groups seem to migrating to XML. I would think the system would operate around an open XML standard. What will the crocodiles will do? Get on side one hopes. Hasn’t the IFX and OFX been around for at least 4 years now?  What role do you anticipate IFX and OFX playing in regards to small business software?  Do banks accept *any* electronic message as a standard?   My impression is they just wait passively like Nile crocodiles, for anything that walks by, that they can charge fees for.  Because they control our money balances.

<snip  That is a good question. I understand that it will be an open I/O interface for QB. Well one hopes so. At present I do not think the interface is interactive or even a query interface just data in data out. But even that is an improvement. This is my take. Could be wrong. POS device || IFX qbXML QB QB<qbXML< IFX <|| Local Asset Management Application QB<qbXML IFX ||Head Office – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – How will the QBXML schema be used?  By locally installed applications like Quickbooks or just QBweb?  If it’s used for QB Web, how will the security be assured?  Will it be interactive or just a format for a batch submission (which I recommend)? Will it be allowed by anybody except between Intuit local and Web applications?  If so, what will be the license terms and pricing? TOdd

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Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but is there somewhere I can see the QBXML document formats? Thanks, Bob Haugen

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Learn all about ofx at http://www.ofx.net/ofx/default.asp

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but is there somewhere I can see the QBXML document formats? Thanks, Bob Haugen

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Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but is there somewhere I can see the QBXML document formats? Thanks, Bob Haugen

Here you go. http://developer.intuit.com http://developer.intuit.com/library/quickbooks.asp

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I tried to download the goodies, but best I can determine, it says I need to sign a developer agreement and pay $1,000. Am I missing anything, or is that the case? Thanks again, Bob Haugen P.S. I checked out OFX, but that seems to be about doing business with your bank instead of each other.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but is there somewhere I can see the QBXML document formats? Thanks, Bob Haugen Here you go. http://developer.intuit.com http://developer.intuit.com/library/quickbooks.asp

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Thanks Mike. But is not Intuit and Microsoft collaborating with the creation of the OFX  "Open Financial Exchange", specification. And will that not be revised with the IFX (Interactive FX) OFX is an open, licensing fee free standard. http://www.ofx.net/ofx/ab_faq.asp http://www.ifxforum.org/ Hasn’t the IFX and OFX been around for at least 4 years now?  What role do you anticipate IFX and OFX playing in regards to small business software?  Do banks accept *any* electronic message as a standard?   My impression is they just wait passively like Nile crocodiles, for anything that walks by, that they can charge fees for.  Because they control our money balances. Is not QB(XML) an interface to the "public" to exchange data with QuickBooks. Expanding on the word Public I understand that any "application" desktop or netbased should be able to exchange data with QB’s via qbxml but it is a QB xml interface that should interface with OFX the exchange standard. How will the QBXML schema be used?  By locally installed applications like Quickbooks or just QBweb?  If it’s used for QB Web, how will the security be assured?  Will it be interactive or just a format for a batch submission (which I recommend)? Will it be allowed by anybody except between Intuit local and Web applications?  If so, what will be the license terms and pricing?  

QBXML will initially be used with QB desktop, QB Web & the QuickBase web database. There are no license fees. The $1,000 charge covers a copy of the QBXML enabled developer version and related seminars and tech support. It also covers Intuit marketing support. The QB2002 Pro and Premier versions can read and be read by QBXML applications. You can create these using Visual Basic and other languages and use them without royalty.      Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

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Sorta lost here?  What has Oracle or QB have to do with XML as a standard ??? Boyle) I noted in the version 0.8 draft of QBXML, the Intuit XML schema for business transactions, the element for EIN has been dropped. <snip As I said long ago, Intuit’s QBXML will soon be a universal standard for small and big business data exchange. I also said the Oracle NetLedger XML spec was a near copy of QBXML (who knows who copied who). NL says it is now fully implemented.

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Sorta lost here?  What has Oracle or QB have to do with XML as a standard ???

What’s your point?  You sound like you have something to contribute. TOdd – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Boyle) I noted in the version 0.8 draft of QBXML, the Intuit XML schema for business transactions, the element for EIN has been dropped. <snip As I said long ago, Intuit’s QBXML will soon be a universal standard for small and big business data exchange. I also said the Oracle NetLedger XML spec was a near copy of QBXML (who knows who copied who). NL says it is now fully implemented. mosnip

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Sorta lost here?  What has Oracle or QB have to do with XML as a standard ???

XML is a standardized way of exchanging data. However, its name alone suggests it was intended to be extended to cover many unrelated standardized exchanges. Electronic Data Exchange has long been standard for automating accounting data interchange between big companies. There are several variations of these fairly expensive programs, so few small businesses use it. XML is being used many to allow integration between different programs. ebXML will be used by the SEC, AICPA and all big CPA firms and public companies to automate extracting information from public company financial statements. The QuickBooks XML version is being used by QB and 3,500+ independent developers to link programs to QB2002 (due by 12/15). Sage, which owns Peachtree (the #1 QB competitor), has its Timeslips and ACT divisions already using QBXML. Oracle, through NetLedger, has a near identical XML version. Intuit QB has around 85% of the small business accounting program market, with 4+ million users. It seems inevitable that the 15 million Intuit Quicken users (around 70% of the home checkbook and investment program market) will soon get similar XML capability. With Sage ($13 billion market cap, mainly in middle and large accounting programs), Oracle and Microsoft (.net) also pushing such integration, we should soon have total automated business integration and linking. These efforts should soon let XML exchanges dwarf prior EDI efforts.   The integration will end separate overlapping databases in companies and many manual decisions for accounting, contact management, due date control, faxes, email, image filing, automated word processing & documents completion, forms  processing, accounting, billing, tax returns, electronic bill presentment and payment, automated entry of ebills in accounting systems, automated reconciliation of supplier payments, shipping, financial analysis, credit control, bad debt collection, investment analysis and execution, web sales, customer and supplier information delivery, point of sale, automatic confirmation of supplier and customer balances, order processing and acknowledgement and countess custom programs. It will give us much more current and accurate information at much lower cost, vastly improving small business decision making. It also will facilitate increased use of low-priced remote personnel, for routine work, financial analysis and legal compliance. One calculation showed annual U.S. business savings of $150 billion a year on only electronic bill presentment & payment, plus related automated entry in accounting systems and supplier balance confirmations. Total savings seem beyond analysis. Boyle) I noted in the version 0.8 draft of QBXML, the Intuit XML schema for business transactions, the element for EIN has been dropped. <snip As I said long ago, Intuit’s QBXML will soon be a universal standard for small and big business data exchange. I also said the Oracle NetLedger XML spec was a near copy of QBXML (who knows who copied who). NL says it is now fully implemented. mosnip

     Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

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As with most stories about bad things Intuit does, this one involved misunderstanding about very good things. My comments follow Intuit’s official answer, below this prior post. According to an email from Intuit. The Professional Advisors referral database is being replaced by the www.keen.com database where QB users looking for a advisor will have to pay to talk you. I haven’t looked at this very much but I don’t think I like it. I don’t see a search by by zip code or city and keen gets 30% of your billings – with probably a kick-back to Intuit. This looks like another scheme by Intuit to get into our pocket books. I didn’t look at the keen contract but I suspect that your are supposed to pay them the 30% for a period of time even if the client starts dealing with you directly instead of going through keen.

From Rich Walker, CPA, Director, QuickBooks Professional Advisor Program: <MB note: Rich’s boss is a Top 100 http://accountantsworld.com/ CPA <MB: I believe he came to Intuit with his A.T.B. program. This answer is similar to what we’re shortly sending out to ProAdvisors. We’re not dropping the QB Pro Advisor hot line … in fact, there will be two different offerings for accountants, depending upon their level of need. I’ll explain further in a follow-up. <MB: QB may soon have the time saving email support I kept requesting. Our partnership with Keen is not replacing the QuickBooks Professional Advisors Program.  We entered the relationship with Keen to bring QuickBooks Professional Advisors a more robust "referral database" that would replace the existing QuickBooks Professional Advisors referral database.  However, we are currently evaluating whether or not to replace the existing "referral database" with the QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center or to offer both and give a choice to QuickBooks Professional Advisors. Second, the QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center will be its own separate Web site and dedicated to helping QuickBooks users receive QuickBooks and accounting advice from QuickBooks Professional Advisors. Keen.com is not the QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center; we are only using Keen’s technology, and that will in be a private site (not the public-facing keen.com).  When we bring QuickBooks users to the QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center, they will only see topics on QuickBooks and accounting. You may click on this link    www.intuitadvisor.com/AcctgAdviceShot to see a screen shot of the QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center. Third, feedback from QuickBooks Professional Advisors has consistently called for a referral database with enhanced capabilities. In addition, many QuickBooks users call our technical support center and asked accounting questions (as opposed to QuickBooks technical questions). Providing accounting advice is not Intuit’s business, but we recognized a major need of our QuickBooks users.  So we decided to develop the QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center to meet the needs of both groups of customers (accountants and small business owners).  With the QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center, QuickBooks users will receive accounting advice, and QuickBooks Professional Advisors can turn virtually every contact with the QuickBooks user into a billable service and a potential long-term client. As you know, we had proven success during last tax season with a similar service, the Tax Advisor Program.  Over 18,000 TurboTax users paid our tax professionals for tax advice.  Some of our "Tax Advisors" made over $10,000 in the program. In addition, most of the QuickBooks Professional Advisor Program members who participated and answered our survey about the service said they would be interested in a similar program for QuickBooks. Fourth, providing advice through services like the QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center and the Tax Advisor Program is similar to providing advice to any "potential client."  The accountant determines the amount of risk he or she is willing to bear. He or she probably wouldn’t hesitate to answer a simple QuickBooks question, but if the question was more complicated and the accountant was uncomfortable answering it, we would recommend the accountant have the customer sign an engagement letter and enter into a normal client relationship. <MB: good advice, by a good CPA, to all CPAs. Still, we understand that services like the QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center and the Tax Advisor Program may not be for every accounting and tax professional.  This is why we are evaluating our decision of having the QuickBooks Accounting Live Advice Center replace the existing referral database. Thank you again for your comments.  Let us know if you have any other questions or comments. <MB: The rest of this is from me. Each time I visited Intuit I found everyone sincere, friendly, open and well meaning. This certainly was unexpected based on their size, accomplishments and newsgroup posts about them. The top Pro Advisor people and a top Turbotax person are CPAs who speak our language. They are always very well informed and receptive. 2+ years ago an Intuit TurboTax ProSeries seminar leader said research showed that all financial services (not just Intuit programs) should be sold through CPAs. Intuit only forgot this when it tried charging separate tax table fees for each company using QB, not for each copy of QB. Since our protests got the extra charges dropped I have seen nothing but very CPA favorable acts. One case involved my initial web Intuit Privacy page. Many CPAs are concerned with this, so Rich quickly set up a more than one hour conference call between him, me and the Intuit Director of Privacy and her deputy. It happened when Rich was quite ill and in Japan, with the rest of us in California and Florida. It gave me more than enough information to show that some reports were erroneous, most were promptly corrected, strong safeguards were in place and further changes would be seriously considered. QB 2002 has a related result (no every 45 day tax table update). You once could barely find Pro Advisors from QB or its website. I was one who kept complaining to Rich about this. It gradually changed to where 2002 gives us near equal billing with QB tech support. The 2002 Accountant Edition also gives us big advantages, as only we can web support clients remotely and condense their big files. At $3/minute QB also does not compete with most of us on price. QB once had no web support. Now we have QB Excite forums, a good knowledgebase, definite email support from other CPAs and probable near term email support from QB. Some high ranking QB people also help us in this newsgroup. Repeat Pro Advisor & Certified Pro Advisor improvements like affiliate discounts make our program cheaper than direct QB purchase, even for end users. I made thousands from the TurboTax Advisor program, from time I might have otherwise spent watching TV. I also got several permanent clients at substantial fees (by saving big money on tax returns). I think one guy probably made $50,000+ on answers that were better than what Intuit often gets from tax season help. Such answers are often well considered, researched and repeatedly used, via cut, paste and modify. Most questions were what CPAs might well answer for nothing on newsgroups or in initial consultations, partly to get clients & partly because it does not initially pay to go through a billing, credit card and engagement letter process for short answers. In addition, CPA marketing research (http://cpamarketingtips.com/ book)shows users place more value of what they pay for than on what they get for nothing. It is easy to avoid Intuit billing with phone, website or email addresses. However, I strongly suggest you not try this because everyone who found me directly interrupted pressing local work, required immediate attention and did not pay. On the other hand, nothing I saw suggested I owe Intuit for later work. Pro Advisor changes are a big part of why I think Intuit will continue to meet its goal of revolutionizing how individuals and small businesses manage their finances. The changes will provide an extremely cost effective way for us to get new business, while providing far better service to clients.      Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

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XML is being used many to allow integration between different programs. ebXML will be used by the SEC, AICPA and all big CPA firms and public companies to automate extracting information from public company financial statements.

Mike, I think you must mean one of those other "standards" like XBRL. ebXML pretty much ignores accounting, much to Todd Boyle’s dismay.  It is a set of specifications for peer-to-peer business exchanges, maybe the next generation of EDI.  The specs include Messaging Services, Collaboration Partner Agreements (technical agreements on how to send messages back and forth), Business Process scripts, Core Components which are building blocks for business documents to be exchanged, and Repositories for keeping all of the above. The QuickBooks XML version is being used by QB and 3,500+ independent developers to link programs to QB2002 (due by 12/15). Sage, which owns Peachtree (the #1 QB competitor), has its Timeslips and ACT divisions already using QBXML. Oracle, through NetLedger, has a near identical XML version.

It would be possible to use QBXML business documents with the ebXML infrastructure, and maybe get better security, reliability, transactional behavior and conformance to commercial law. I say "maybe" because none of this stuff has much of a track record yet, except traditional EDI and RosettaNet, which was one of the immediate ancestors of ebXML. -Bob Haugen

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I noted in the version 0.8 draft of QBXML, the Intuit XML schema for business transactions, the element for EIN has been dropped. One can only speculate whether that meant Employer Id Number, or what its usage would have been. QBXML is looking like the most likely business vocabulary for small business in coming years.  There is some likelihood of a domino effect, in which larger and larger software companies are forced to speak QBXML, ultimately including much of the present EDI industry, if Intuit plays its cards right.  Won’t that be amazing?  The creators of the larger enterprise XML vocabularies know this.  But they are vendors who can only work for companies that pay them, and their Fortune 500 clients don’t use Quickbooks, they use ERP systems,

This goes far beyond the Usenet talking stage. See Say Goodbye to EDI (the big company version of Electronic Data Exchange) on page 57 of the 10/22/01 InfoWorld. It says XML will wipe out EDI, though not soon. However, the Anthrax scare is making many adopt electronic bill presentment and payment, so this may soon change. As I said long ago, Intuit’s QBXML will soon be a universal standard for small and big business data exchange. I also said the Oracle NetLedger XML spec was a near copy of QBXML (who knows who copied who). NL says it is now fully implemented. This means some of our largest companies will soon use a QB compatible import/export routine.  Large companies can afford custom conversions, but about 85% of small businesses will only use what QB provides. Note that about 6 million companies use QB, including those sharing copies or using bootleg ones. 15 million more Quicken users should soon have QBXML. I once heard there were 28 million small businesses. With 21 million businesses on Intuit products, it looks like very few still do accounting manually.      Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

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I wonder how they plan on eventually throttling free Usenet ’support’ (like the kludge) and even more mundane topics, in order to enhance their coffers?

That is a good question. There will be no throttling of Usenet. There soon will be a sharp reduction of QB posts, as I predicted many months ago. Intuit now knows how to bring the best free and low cost technical support to QB users. It is miles ahead of Microsoft and any other company that I know on this. Many companies should soon adopt the superior new technique. QB2002 lets users instantly search the full QB knowledgebase by entering search terms in an easy to find in-program window. This rapidly growing collection of authoritative answers will provide far more free information, far faster, that the smartest group of QB experts. It will very much cut down on many Usenet requests for QB help. In fact, for most Usenet questions the best answer will be the very simple instructions on how to use the new free method. Yes, M$ got a very good knowledgebase long before QB had one, but only QB is making it instantly in-program accessible with an integrated search. Pro Advisors will get 5 copies of the very quickly searchable PDF version of its excellent complete QB Manual (The Official Guide). I paid for one of them earlier. It is in free Adobe ebook reader software on my computer, but can be in portable readers. You can instantly search it for any term or have it define any word. You also can have it read to you while doing other things. Now I have to figure out how clients can use it. Note that the manual also involves better service for QB users and no money for Intuit, so this is part of the reason they do not make any net operating income. Personally, I do not understand this, as the PDF manual is a hot seller on Amazon at $30 or $40 a copy. QB still has an in-program link to its paid tech support, but it now has a much more prominent link to Pro Advisors. This will let users post questions directly to advisors based on an informed review of location, services, price and credentials. It also will let them post questions to thousands of Advisors at once. Due to the natural tendency for us to compete and shop on price and prompt service, users will get fast answers inexpensively. Intuit will make money on this, but users will save money, and lots of time on hold, compared to Intuit tech support. Pro Advisors also can now remotely web support clients, which cannot be done with Usenet of QB tech support. Users will not pay Intuit on later CPA services, so some CPAs will cut rates and give very fast trial service to try to get new permanent clients. That is what happened with TurboTax Advisors. Compared to Usenet, many surveys show people value paid goods and services more highly than unpaid ones. I also think 100 times the CPAs and other Pro Advisors will soon answer this way compared to Usenet. Big user time and money savings will be coupled with more rehearsed polished answers (via cut and paste), from more qualified people. It also should end time wasting flame wars. In short, this QB2002 change means that there is one more way that prior QB versions will waste time and money. The new tech support method is so much better that it will definitely cut down the number Usenet users and experts. It is not that Intuit will throttle Usenet, but that many will abandon it.      Mike Block – Tax Cut CPA      #1 QuickBooks Top Tester Lowest QB Price, Free 462p QB book, error codes, shortcuts, 120 Add-ons  http://blocktax.com/ 954-566-7540

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Two Hundred Eighty Nine lines of Company Line Marketing in three Posts…  That prove program "support" will be bigger business than the program itself to those in to it… I wonder how they plan on eventually throttling free Usenet ’support’ (like the kludge) and even more mundane topics, in order to enhance their coffers? As all may note we already have our stockings full of slick qb entrepreneurs here offering free appetizers outside their expensive and proprietary  restaurants…  <g Tim K

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One case involved my initial web Intuit Privacy page. Many CPAs are concerned with this, so Rich quickly set up a more than one hour conference call between him, me and the Intuit Director of Privacy and her deputy. It happened when Rich was quite ill and in Japan, with the rest of us in California and Florida. It gave me more than enough information to show that some reports were erroneous, most were promptly corrected, strong safeguards were in place and further changes would be seriously considered.

I noted in the version 0.8 draft of QBXML, the Intuit XML schema for business transactions, the element for EIN has been dropped. One can only speculate whether that meant Employer Id Number, or what its usage would have been. QBXML is looking like the most likely business vocabulary for small business in coming years.  There is some likelihood of a domino effect, in which larger and larger software companies are forced to speak QBXML, ultimately including much of the present EDI industry, if Intuit plays its cards right.  Won’t that be amazing?  The creators of the larger enterprise XML vocabularies know this.  But they are vendors who can only work for companies that pay them, and their Fortune 500 clients don’t use Quickbooks, they use ERP systems, Todd Todd Boyle CPA  9745-128th Ave NE  Kirkland WA employer www.netaccount.com project www.arapxml.net "… most of us have a natural tendency and an incredible talent for processing new facts in such a way that our prior conclusions remain intact." -Horngren

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Well yes… what I am really talking about is the product.

Oh, ok. The product is stable. There was Eisenstein put his finger on it all way back in the nineteen teens and there is that filmmaker, Oliver Stone, he placed it all in practice in the nineties. The body of the development though, that was in television. The television of the 1960’s, simply amazing. They had the avant-garde actually working mainstream there for a few years. Yes… It is different all over Europe. In Holland they made a commitment many years ago and dug up the whole country and laid glass fibre. The quality is perfect where ever you go.

That’s what we have, all optic. They started laying the cable in ‘82. It’s been done for four years now. The plan was to finish it this year. They did well. The cable they did lay too, someone was thinking way ahead. It’s as big as your arm, thousands of strands. Over 90% of it physically isn’t even being used yet. I get everything tv, telephone, internet and pay tv (for want of a better term) piggy back on as well.

That has just been allowed here, new common carrier licensing regulations. I think it’s going to be great for the average Joe but real shitty for people who like blue-chip stock in utilities. hahahaha They gave-up too soon. That’s what I kept saying.

I have seen so much of that the past six years. So much ignorance in approach to this new medium. I used to believe in free enterprise, libertarian-style. I don’t anymore. It was in making educative software for children. By using VR we slashed production costs and in all cases the children loved it. An interactive real time television game show with real people and live rendering VR. I liked it!

I’ve seen some of those. They are great! I Silicon Graphics Onyx and later Onyx II were the only boxes fast enough but even then we had lots of bugs and profit making pressures which showed up in production problems which put people off. We pushed it too fast.

Those people from Silicon Graphics were con-artists. I met their whole crew, back in 1995, maybe you met the same bunch. They went all over the world with a traveling circus of virtual reality. They lied to people. These days while powerful people are exploring they like comfortable seats, a nice lunch and a technical result that is seamless first time round. They want profits from day one. They know about how an investment should perform but only on timelines of no longer than two years.

That is why I no longer have faith in free enterprise. Wrong sort of organization, leads to short-sited goals on the part of directors because of the procedures of accounting and reporting of a too-fluid capital. The capital isn’t fluid enough for a fund-based economy but is too fluid for wise development within a capitalist economy as a whole. To look good, directors have to make less-than-the-best decision. The kinds of people who are willing to do that and the kinds of people who do it well are not the kinds of people who I want directing the means of production and distribution for either the state or social structure in which I am forced to live. That is the limit on loss. They are getting shorter not longer. Middle managers have become politicians and manipulators of numbers. Development is no longer practised by my company except on a reactive basis.

That is just how it is here too. Same here… everybody has a computer… everybody seems to have internet… but nobody really uses it. The numbers give a very false impression.

Oh, ok. Like for the North American west coast, lots of computers in homes and businesses doesn’t mean they’re being used all that much. After one failed attempt I will be very careful about choosing the next one.

That’s what I’m doing too. Right now I am making the careful choices. I have seen some very talented people with some very good ideas chewed up and spat out.

Is that unbelievable or what? I’ve seen it too. No wonder so many of these initiatives and dot.coms are dot.gone – a few innovative thinkers do something that triggers the greed-lust of the moneygrubbers so they organize to exploit the new technology and who is the first they get rid of? – those oddballs over there, not the geeks, not the nerds, not the trendy artists – the misfits. Well, they fucked-up this time. This is the misfits’ medium. This will piss you off but I’m going to tell you anyway. You wouldn’t need an Onyx to pull that VR off anymore. Not since last year. A pc that will handle that is under 1800CAD, around 11 or 1200 USD. Same for Apple’s G4, it will do it too. Solutions to the bandwidth problem are abundant. Some are even open source. There is so little cohesion that a single a vision is difficult… it doesn’t matter how talented you are you still need opportunity.

Right. Here is the thing though – in this medium it is very easy to create opportunity, maybe easier than anything before. And the best part, the kinds of people who usually exploit such things, gold-rushes and stuff, they are totally out of the water on this one. From what I have seen here opportunity is very very rare and creativity within the existing positions is in the stranglehold of account executives and project managers using modern techniques of not listening.

That is within the organizations. That sort of opportunity is rare. Seems to be getting rarer too. It sounds interesting. I know I have to alter my perspective.

Not very much. Editing is kind of ‘hyper’ in practice. just find it hard to know which perspective best sums up the ultimate use of the medium.

No one knows yet. Or maybe someone knows but they haven’t expressed it or it just hasn’t gotten around much. I suspect no one knows yet. So as you say… I should wait and see what comes that inspires me enough to overlook the obstacles.

That’s what I think, keep an open eye. Do you get a 3d effect?

No, without the CRT screen there is better mental performance. Like with film projected on a screen and monitor display, same thing. Staring at the monitor display has a psychological effect, a weird one. The new computer monitors, the ones with persistent imaging, they don’t have that effect. They are getting pretty cheap, crude ones are just around a thousand, a small nice one is just over four, that’s all canadian dollars. Honestly Bev I was playing around with 3d in cinema in the late seventies. It is a subject that fascinates me… or at least once did. Superscope, split imaged 35 mm, polarized glasses over pure colour separation, 3d stop frame animation using motion control in 3d space, 3d sound (comparing the Dolby and Eprad systems).

3-D is coming soon. Digitally it is here just not implemented in application yet. Optically it is right at the edge, almost there. If compared to the development of motion picture, we’re past the level of the fenaikistiscope and are now at the level of a zoopraciscope. So it can’t be long now. I would expect 2-D simulated, full-motion 3-D to begin to go mainstream in the next few years with 3-D projection emerging sometime in the next twenty-five. Important patents are expiring too. Strangleholds on patents, particularly ones from Polaroid and a number of small, private inventors, have stalled development in the field since the seventies. Another obvious problem with free enterprise in the realm of intellectual property. It was what led me into special effects. I have seen some incredibly impressive systems.

I have too. Pisses me off that some aren’t being used for no good reasons other than greed and ignorance.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Not until there is some major advances in bandwidth limitations. They’re gone. There is a trick, has nothing to do with bandwidth. That’s just for analog-style broadcast. Lose that box. It still uses television… just digital television. haha, not like that, it’s like there is painting and sculpture and you can paint a sculpture, only it’s still a sculpture. Television is just a carrier for the actual medium – motion picture audio-visual. I am a little confused… I think we are talking about completely different technical cultures. Everything in Europe is based around mainstream television. Broadcast ended here years ago. Yeah but whether it is going over an airwave or a cable it’s still the same thing.

Well yes… what I am really talking about is the product. The delivery medium is *there*, in place, and has been for a very long time. Maybe it is more like twenty years I am really not sure which is why I said over ten… that is *my* experience base. Before that I had another life in another land. The Internet isn’t broadcasting at all.

We agree on this. But there was little or no interest. It was America’s computer drive that started changing attitudes here but very slowly. 95% of the product made here is relatively high quality mainstream television which we receive through cable. Do they have two-way cable?

Yes… It is different all over Europe. In Holland they made a commitment many years ago and dug up the whole country and laid glass fibre. The quality is perfect where ever you go. I get everything tv, telephone, internet and pay tv (for want of a better term) piggy back on as well. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – These are not commercial senders nor are they public broadcast. They are much more than that. They are state owned cultural organs controlled, loosely, by governments who invest largely and have a strong influence. They are commercially run, but they handle a lot of public broadcast style product… particularly documentaries and local interest cultural information programmes. Like the CBC. There are five of those things in Canada, two are for television. So if commercial television finds it hard to make inroads, and there is no doubt that it now is after a long struggle, what do you think of the chances of internet style visual entertainment? The same as for motion picture around 1901. That’s where we are now. The rate of change doesn’t seem to be going any faster than it did for motion picture, contrary to what Internet ‘guru’ types like to proclaim.

*nod* It is being played around with. I was heavily involved in developing low cost virtual reality product for internet for two and a half years and finally, after investing tens of millions, my company dropped it through lack of interest. So you are preaching to the converted on that score. They gave-up too soon.

That’s what I kept saying. They were probably still thinking in the approaches for existing media too. Which would make trying to bring a ‘virtual reality’ product to the Internet impossible or pointless.

It was in making educative software for children. By using VR we slashed production costs and in all cases the children loved it. An interactive real time television game show with real people and live rendering VR. I liked it! Silicon Graphics Onyx and later Onyx II were the only boxes fast enough but even then we had lots of bugs and profit making pressures which showed up in production problems which put people off. We pushed it too fast. These days while powerful people are exploring they like comfortable seats, a nice lunch and a technical result that is seamless first time round. They want profits from day one. They know about how an investment should perform but only on timelines of no longer than two years. That is the limit on loss. They are getting shorter not longer. Middle managers have become politicians and manipulators of numbers. Development is no longer practised by my company except on a reactive basis. Whatever is available technically is available here, only Europeans are a stubborn lot and don’t like to be told what is better for them. Internet has started to catch on and is now fairly popular but it is nothing like the culture it is in the States and Canada. France seems to be going strong, at least going by how many people subscribe to an Internet service.

Same here… everybody has a computer… everybody seems to have internet… but nobody really uses it. The numbers give a very false impression. So… I have essentially three possibilities. To keep in the mainstream television world which is already started the laboriously slow change to more crossover formats, at least here in Holland, or leap into the highly unsuccessful bullshit world of internet product in Europe… or leave Europe… Sounds like all three suck. There is a fourth though – development of a new media in a new medium.

After one failed attempt I will be very careful about choosing the next one. In the next few years a new kind of publisher will emerge. Their presence and activity will run the bullshit artists into oblivion.

I have seen some very talented people with some very good ideas chewed up and spat out. There is so little cohesion that a single a vision is difficult… it doesn’t matter how talented you are you still need opportunity. From what I have seen here opportunity is very very rare and creativity within the existing positions is in the stranglehold of account executives and project managers using modern techniques of not listening. Blurring it? I don’t know about that. This is a new medium with even some new media, there will be whole new forms. I guess I jumped a step in my mind… I see the computer as information and interactive amusement. I see the tv as a different form of information and entertainment. Entertainment where *I* am entertained and I can quietly, meditatively, rest my tired mind. And laugh and cry effortlessly in my fantasies. Literature, theatre, motion picture, television. That strain doesn’t get anything new until 3-D motion picture. Hypermedia is a whole different thing, it only incorporates preexisting forms.

It sounds interesting. I know I have to alter my perspective. I just find it hard to know which perspective best sums up the ultimate use of the medium. So as you say… I should wait and see what comes that inspires me enough to overlook the obstacles. Interaction destroys the process of listening. I have a problem bringing those two things together. Maybe in sport… haha, well, you’ll have to wait and see. You may be surprised by what happens. Hypermedia will revolutionize story-telling. Same way motion picture did. Let’s just hope that CRT display is a thing of the past before it really hits. These display screens most of us stare at are not good for the mind. They’re more suited to television. Damn monitor I want is 4380 dollars. No CRT. If you want to try a strange experience, introspect while using both LCD and CRT displays.

Do you get a 3d effect? Honestly Bev I was playing around with 3d in cinema in the late seventies. It is a subject that fascinates me… or at least once did. Superscope, split imaged 35 mm, polarized glasses over pure colour separation, 3d stop frame animation using motion control in 3d space, 3d sound (comparing the Dolby and Eprad systems). It was what led me into special effects. I have seen some incredibly impressive systems. So there is much meaning in your words for me. Thanks. — "I do not know" – GlennT Learning… http://people.A2000.nl/gthomas/GlennHome.htm

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Not until there is some major advances in bandwidth limitations. They’re gone. There is a trick, has nothing to do with bandwidth. That’s just for analog-style broadcast. Lose that box. It still uses television… just digital television.

haha, not like that, it’s like there is painting and sculpture and you can paint a sculpture, only it’s still a sculpture. Television is just a carrier for the actual medium – motion picture audio-visual. I am a little confused… I think we are talking about completely different technical cultures. Everything in Europe is based around mainstream television. Broadcast ended here years ago.

Yeah but whether it is going over an airwave or a cable it’s still the same thing. The cable industry keeps the fiction going that pumping the signal down a cable isn’t broadcasting. It is. It just isn’t unlimited, it is constrained by the cable. They like to keep the definitions blurred because they like to manipulate licensing. Broadcasting down a cable and broadcasting over airwaves is still broadcasting either way. The Internet isn’t broadcasting at all. Cable here is not the same as cable in other parts of the world. We get everything through cable and have done for a long time. Therefore the ability, technically, to piggy back signals has been around for the general population for over a decade.

A decade? It’s been over two here, three for just information. You just have to subscribe. Since ‘72 for big things like the NYSE ticker or Vegas gambling boards, since ‘82 for your computer network and since ‘87 for anything. Very expensive until the early nineties but now getting cheaper every year. But there was little or no interest. It was America’s computer drive that started changing attitudes here but very slowly. 95% of the product made here is relatively high quality mainstream television which we receive through cable.

Do they have two-way cable? These are not commercial senders nor are they public broadcast. They are much more than that. They are state owned cultural organs controlled, loosely, by governments who invest largely and have a strong influence. They are commercially run, but they handle a lot of public broadcast style product… particularly documentaries and local interest cultural information programmes.

Like the CBC. There are five of those things in Canada, two are for television. So if commercial television finds it hard to make inroads, and there is no doubt that it now is after a long struggle, what do you think of the chances of internet style visual entertainment?

The same as for motion picture around 1901. That’s where we are now. The rate of change doesn’t seem to be going any faster than it did for motion picture, contrary to what Internet ‘guru’ types like to proclaim. It is being played around with. I was heavily involved in developing low cost virtual reality product for internet for two and a half years and finally, after investing tens of millions, my company dropped it through lack of interest. So you are preaching to the converted on that score.

They gave-up too soon. They were probably still thinking in the approaches for existing media too. Which would make trying to bring a ‘virtual reality’ product to the Internet impossible or pointless. Whatever is available technically is available here, only Europeans are a stubborn lot and don’t like to be told what is better for them. Internet has started to catch on and is now fairly popular but it is nothing like the culture it is in the States and Canada.

France seems to be going strong, at least going by how many people subscribe to an Internet service. So… I have essentially three possibilities. To keep in the mainstream television world which is already started the laboriously slow change to more crossover formats, at least here in Holland, or leap into the highly unsuccessful bullshit world of internet product in Europe… or leave Europe…

Sounds like all three suck. There is a fourth though – development of a new media in a new medium. In the next few years a new kind of publisher will emerge. Their presence and activity will run the bullshit artists into oblivion. But my point is people here simply don’t want to watch tv on the computer.

Of course not, they’re two different things. You can give them all the interactive toys you like…

That’s the mistake right there – it isn’t the interactive toys, it’s the interactivity itself. Toys don’t work. They’re just for children. they are not interested. The drive here is to incorporate the computer into the tv instead of the other way around. That is proving far more popular also on a purely physical level.

That’s because their money-blinded pea-brains can understand that. Trying to incorporate what is television into what will be the Internet is like trying to do still cinema before say, 1960. I think the cultures are vastly different but my knowledge of development over there *is* limited.

Things are a little different. I suppose it would be hard to know what is going on. Canada is a communication country, the communication country, an information society, but at the same time it is very secretive. This is a non-linear medium. Lose that box too. I meant purely story flow. How to catch someone’s eye and take them somewhere then leave them feeling like they enjoyed the trip. You *must* know what I mean…

Yes. For the Internet, all that is new is the storage, being able to view on call, and the hypermedia. The hypermedia is all that really makes it different from the things it is made of – text, sound and images carrying information. As for blurring communication and art… I have to think about that some more. Blurring it? I don’t know about that. This is a new medium with even some new media, there will be whole new forms. I guess I jumped a step in my mind… I see the computer as information and interactive amusement. I see the tv as a different form of information and entertainment. Entertainment where *I* am entertained and I can quietly, meditatively, rest my tired mind. And laugh and cry effortlessly in my fantasies.

Literature, theatre, motion picture, television. That strain doesn’t get anything new until 3-D motion picture. Hypermedia is a whole different thing, it only incorporates preexisting forms. Interaction destroys the process of listening. I have a problem bringing those two things together. Maybe in sport…

haha, well, you’ll have to wait and see. You may be surprised by what happens. Hypermedia will revolutionize story-telling. Same way motion picture did. Let’s just hope that CRT display is a thing of the past before it really hits. These display screens most of us stare at are not good for the mind. They’re more suited to television. Damn monitor I want is 4380 dollars. No CRT. If you want to try a strange experience, introspect while using both LCD and CRT displays.

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Not until there is some major advances in bandwidth limitations. They’re gone. There is a trick, has nothing to do with bandwidth. That’s just for analog-style broadcast. Lose that box.

It still uses television… just digital television. I am a little confused… I think we are talking about completely different technical cultures. Everything in Europe is based around mainstream television. Broadcast ended here years ago. Cable here is not the same as cable in other parts of the world. We get everything through cable and have done for a long time. Therefore the ability, technically, to piggy back signals has been around for the general population for over a decade. But there was little or no interest. It was America’s computer drive that started changing attitudes here but very slowly. 95% of the product made here is relatively high quality mainstream television which we receive through cable. These are not commercial senders nor are they public broadcast. They are much more than that. They are state owned cultural organs controlled, loosely, by governments who invest largely and have a strong influence. They are commercially run, but they handle a lot of public broadcast style product… particularly documentaries and local interest cultural information programmes. They make small profits or small losses. The money is in the product they make which has become profitable mostly *because* of subsidized budgets. There is a growing element of pure commercial television but it hasn’t even begun to make much inroad into the state audiences and excellent quality state product. That incidentally is now largely made by commercial companies under the control by contract of state ’style’ managed production/management companies like BBC and their smaller equivalents across the different European countries. So if commercial television finds it hard to make inroads, and there is no doubt that it now is after a long struggle, what do you think of the chances of internet style visual entertainment? It is being played around with. I was heavily involved in developing low cost virtual reality product for internet for two and a half years and finally, after investing tens of millions, my company dropped it through lack of interest. So you are preaching to the converted on that score. Whatever is available technically is available here, only Europeans are a stubborn lot and don’t like to be told what is better for them. Internet has started to catch on and is now fairly popular but it is nothing like the culture it is in the States and Canada. So… I have essentially three possibilities. To keep in the mainstream television world which is already started the laboriously slow change to more crossover formats, at least here in Holland, or leap into the highly unsuccessful bullshit world of internet product in Europe… or leave Europe… But even then the two activities will always be separate. *Some* activities are suitable for use within this limited medium, not all. Television can handle *all* existing formats… This medium, this one you’re using right now, it is going to incorporate what is television as a medium, it already has it’s just not accessible yet for most people. It will add that to all the rest that it has and any that are developed.

But my point is people here simply don’t want to watch tv on the computer. You can give them all the interactive toys you like… they are not interested. The drive here is to incorporate the computer into the tv instead of the other way around. That is proving far more popular also on a purely physical level. I think the cultures are vastly different but my knowledge of development over there *is* limited. The Eisenstein of the Internet hasn’t shown yet. A medium in infancy. Oh I’ll be happy with some advances in some pretty basic things such as linear flow that exist in all the older art forms. This is a non-linear medium. Lose that box too.

I meant purely story flow. How to catch someone’s eye and take them somewhere then leave them feeling like they enjoyed the trip. You *must* know what I mean… As for blurring communication and art… I have to think about that some more. Blurring it? I don’t know about that. This is a new medium with even some new media, there will be whole new forms.

I guess I jumped a step in my mind… I see the computer as information and interactive amusement. I see the tv as a different form of information and entertainment. Entertainment where *I* am entertained and I can quietly, meditatively, rest my tired mind. And laugh and cry effortlessly in my fantasies. Interaction destroys the process of listening. I have a problem bringing those two things together. Maybe in sport… — "I do not know" – GlennT Learning… http://people.A2000.nl/gthomas/GlennHome.htm

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Mainstream television will become the major source of internet product. This is the ’smart’ new business in mainstream television. The two will eventually complement each other properly. One will not take over the other. That is bullshit.

You got that right. Not until there is some major advances in bandwidth limitations.

They’re gone. There is a trick, has nothing to do with bandwidth. That’s just for analog-style broadcast. Lose that box. But even then the two activities will always be separate. *Some* activities are suitable for use within this limited medium, not all. Television can handle *all* existing formats…

This medium, this one you’re using right now, it is going to incorporate what is television as a medium, it already has it’s just not accessible yet for most people. It will add that to all the rest that it has and any that are developed. The Eisenstein of the Internet hasn’t shown yet. A medium in infancy. Oh I’ll be happy with some advances in some pretty basic things such as linear flow that exist in all the older art forms.

This is a non-linear medium. Lose that box too. As for blurring communication and art… I have to think about that some more.

Blurring it? I don’t know about that. This is a new medium with even some new media, there will be whole new forms.

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There is possibilities here. One of the demands I have made in going back to work is to start retraining in non linear editing. You haven’t done that yet? It’s 2001.

Retraining is what I said! I have done Avid courses in sound and editing but it is not the area I have been working in for nearly seven years. Once established on *that* platform the ability to move side ways is endless. The big one here is Avid but the one I like is Asymetrix.

I quite like Media 100 but Avid is popular. There are several new technologies coming in the next four or five years that will totally blur the line between cable tv and the Internet. And hypermedia audio-visual is the next step past motion picture.

Mainstream television will become the major source of internet product. This is the ’smart’ new business in mainstream television. The two will eventually complement each other properly. One will not take over the other. That is bullshit. Not until there is some major advances in bandwidth limitations. But even then the two activities will always be separate. *Some* activities are suitable for use within this limited medium, not all. Television can handle *all* existing formats… The Eisenstein of the Internet hasn’t shown yet. A medium in infancy.

Oh I’ll be happy with some advances in some pretty basic things such as linear flow that exist in all the older art forms. As for blurring communication and art… I have to think about that some more. — "I do not know" – GlennT Learning… http://people.A2000.nl/gthomas/GlennHome.htm

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There is possibilities here. One of the demands I have made in going back to work is to start retraining in non linear editing.

You haven’t done that yet? It’s 2001. Once established on *that* platform the ability to move side ways is endless.

The big one here is Avid but the one I like is Asymetrix. At the moment I am too specialized in the old linear technology. In this particular extremely competitive environment everyone is screaming to get onto non linear computer based editing. So that is my first hurdle.

You have to do that. Everything here went non-linear, oh, must be ten years or more now. No, I guess it was eight, ‘93. But you are right… it is a vast field once I have overcome that small obstacle. I still have a lot to learn about it’s infrastructure but the web is starting to look more and more interesting.

There are several new technologies coming in the next four or five years that will totally blur the line between cable tv and the Internet. And hypermedia audio-visual is the next step past motion picture. The Eisenstein of the Internet hasn’t shown yet. A medium in infancy.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – It is a bizarre phenomenon any way you look at it. Not the technology… but the use of it. Not the commercialism but the total lack of product. Too many web designers missing the first thing about web design. Too many programmers doing web-design; too many graphic artists doing web-design. Both have the wrong skill-sets. The programmers are sucked-in because the mark-up language looks like programming code; the graphic people because the page-layout looks like a graphics problem. The thing is – mark-up is mark-up, not programming; page layout is transfer, not graphics. And site lay-out and function is a whole, new ball of wax – a combination of applications programming, multimedia presentation and traditional periodical or publication editing. Just like the movies. There’s a whole, new field there, Glenn. The skill-sets you have now will serve better in it than would any programming or graphics background. As a motion picture editor, you already have the vision necessary for appropriate development and design in this medium, much more so than would any programmer or graphic designer. Right now, the jobs aren’t there yet – employers are still looking for the wrong skill-sets. Doesn’t matter a lot, technical schools can cram the ones they are looking for and, best of all, the means of publication is at your fingertips anyway, it looks like the perfect place for going freelance or making an entrepreneurial effort. If you ever find yourself stuck for work again, take a look at the field. I just did a couple months ago and what I found was startling. You love cutting documentaries, is that right? Think about this – cut a documentary in hypermedia and you still get to do all the things that film can do on a video screen plus you get to alter all the edit points, in effect in real time for the viewer, and can even make it so the viewer can have choices of edit points, and there is no last can. The film rolls on forever. If only there was a way to sculpt. Those 3-d printers are still too expensive. The files for them are probably pretty big too. Oh well, it’s only a matter of time before every home has one, their very own plastics replicator. We may live long enough to see it. That’s the wiredest part.

There is possibilities here. One of the demands I have made in going back to work is to start retraining in non linear editing. Once established on *that* platform the ability to move side ways is endless. At the moment I am too specialized in the old linear technology. In this particular extremely competitive environment everyone is screaming to get onto non linear computer based editing. So that is my first hurdle. As I am the ‘foreigner’ I have to fight twice as hard as the rest. I am ready for such a job (hiding the hammer behind his back). I am good and ready. But you are right… it is a vast field once I have overcome that small obstacle. I still have a lot to learn about it’s infrastructure but the web is starting to look more and more interesting. — "I do not know" – GlennT Learning… http://people.A2000.nl/gthomas/GlennHome.htm

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It is a bizarre phenomenon any way you look at it. Not the technology… but the use of it. Not the commercialism but the total lack of product.

Too many web designers missing the first thing about web design. Too many programmers doing web-design; too many graphic artists doing web-design. Both have the wrong skill-sets. The programmers are sucked-in because the mark-up language looks like programming code; the graphic people because the page-layout looks like a graphics problem. The thing is – mark-up is mark-up, not programming; page layout is transfer, not graphics. And site lay-out and function is a whole, new ball of wax – a combination of applications programming, multimedia presentation and traditional periodical or publication editing. Just like the movies. There’s a whole, new field there, Glenn. The skill-sets you have now will serve better in it than would any programming or graphics background. As a motion picture editor, you already have the vision necessary for appropriate development and design in this medium, much more so than would any programmer or graphic designer. Right now, the jobs aren’t there yet – employers are still looking for the wrong skill-sets. Doesn’t matter a lot, technical schools can cram the ones they are looking for and, best of all, the means of publication is at your fingertips anyway, it looks like the perfect place for going freelance or making an entrepreneurial effort. If you ever find yourself stuck for work again, take a look at the field. I just did a couple months ago and what I found was startling. You love cutting documentaries, is that right? Think about this – cut a documentary in hypermedia and you still get to do all the things that film can do on a video screen plus you get to alter all the edit points, in effect in real time for the viewer, and can even make it so the viewer can have choices of edit points, and there is no last can. The film rolls on forever. If only there was a way to sculpt. Those 3-d printers are still too expensive. The files for them are probably pretty big too. Oh well, it’s only a matter of time before every home has one, their very own plastics replicator. We may live long enough to see it. That’s the wiredest part.

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I also accept poems, short stories, pictures, advice whatever you want.  Let me know what ya think!

Too many ads, not enough content. The "Cheer you up" page is annoying, it’s just ad links.

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I also accept poems, short stories, pictures, advice whatever you want.  Let me know what ya think! Too many ads, not enough content. The "Cheer you up" page is annoying, it’s just ad links.

Sometimes my computer springs to life if I click the wrong link. I have three or four windows all popping in to life joyfully extolling the highlights of links that suddenly whip up another five new windows and so on etc. It is a bizarre phenomenon any way you look at it. Not the technology… but the use of it. Not the commercialism but the total lack of product. — "I do not know" – GlennT Learning… http://people.A2000.nl/gthomas/GlennHome.htm

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Guys I made a website for depressed people and I would like you guys to check it out!  Feel free to tell me all your stories and I will feature them (anonymously if you want) on my website.  There is someone out there who wants to listen.  Anyway, if you want check it out: http://www.mydaysucks.com I also accept poems, short stories, pictures, advice whatever you want.  Let me know what ya think!  see ya soon

Welcome to ASD. Sincerely Stewart — The Metaphor Man  *and*  The Great Defender of the Self (remove the SPAMBLOCK) Please send me an e-mail copy of your posted response.

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Guys I made a website for depressed people and I would like you guys to check it out!  Feel free to tell me all your stories and I will feature them (anonymously if you want) on my website.  There is someone out there who wants to listen.  Anyway, if you want check it out: http://www.mydaysucks.com I also accept poems, short stories, pictures, advice whatever you want.  Let me know what ya think! see ya soon

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I am an accounting student currently doing an internship. The company I am working for is changing accounting systems from QuickBooks to Visual AccountMate. I added new accounts to chart of accounts, but when I try to post an entry it says the account doesn’t exist. The account shows up in the chart of accounts. Any suggestions? — Reed Neagle

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What an utterly uninformed opinion you have. What should the 20,000 Microsoft employees (most of whom own stock options themselves worth millions) or the hundreds of thousands of people in companies that sprug up to enhance and support Microsoft products do when brain dead socialists destroy incentives to create a Microsoft because they are envious of other people’s success???

The Maximum wage idea while pretty damn desirable (considering that only .1% of the population will EVER make a 1,000,000) is not as neccesarry as a decent tax rate for the SUPER-Rich the top 10% of those afformentioned .1%  Let’s say a top tax rate of 83% like a civilised country (Holland or pre-corporate owned America). Lesse considering that the cost of a college education to get those jobs has risen out of the means of the working class, and not to forget those friendly Reagan-Bush-Clinton cuts to Government grants for the poor, Only the Upper middle-class will have a chance of ever getting those jobs. " Damn those poor people just don’t work hard enough"   and it’s basically BULLSHIT!  I’m amazed at how many college-educated people in this country have no idea how much of an advantage they had from the beginning (economic backround, private schools, not ‘having" to work in their teenage years, and dont get me started on for-pay special SAT classes only rich people can afford). Jesus, and you people wonder why the rich are systematically slaughtered by society every couple a hundred years. I’ll let you in on a little secret. Information technology will shortly enable smart people to work anywhere in the world.

No the priveleged, mostly white, middle class who could afford college.  Not Poor people in the city, who with a gutted public education system and no government loans, CANT AFFORD the technical training you are so enamored of. The Clinton Administration is already worried about this and has proposed a 3% exit tax on net worth for people who want to renounce their citizenship and leave the country (sort of a financial Berlin Wall). There are an increasing number of emerging places in the world that welcome smart, wealthy people with open arms, low tax rates, and even private tax treaties for the very wealthy.

Yes, wonderful, clean, humane places like Singapore and South America. Gee what those countries have in common is an incredible disparity between rich and poor.  Not to mention oppression, totalitarianism, and slavery for the poor and disenfranchised. They know that smart and wealthy people place few demands on government services and can provide great benefit to an area by creating new businesses that employ the local population. Faced with increasing tax burdens and envy in the industrial democracies of Europe and North American, what will smart people do when technologies like Teledesc tie the whole world together in 2002? Leave. Who will be left? The dummies. Think about it.

Nope, Greedy, Unrepentant Feudalistic bastards like you are the dummies.  Because it’s your lack of compassion and understanding, or even awareness of your own advantages, that make you INTOLERABLE to most people in this country.  

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‘Hatred of America’ is basically when people say ‘America sucks, America sucks, America sucks…’ and when you ask them why they don’t really have any good reasons and often can’t back up what they do say.  IMO I think they just like saying that ‘America sucks.’ Criticism of America is another thing entirely.

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What an utterly uninformed opinion you have. What should the 20,000 Microsoft employees (most of whom own stock options themselves worth millions) or the hundreds of thousands of people in companies that sprug up to enhance and support Microsoft products do when brain dead socialists destroy incentives to create a Microsoft because they are envious of other people’s success??? I’ll let you in on a little secret. Information technology will shortly enable smart people to work anywhere in the world. The Clinton Administration is already worried about this and has proposed a 3% exit tax on net worth for people who want to renounce their citizenship and leave the country (sort of a financial Berlin Wall). There are an increasing number of emerging places in the world that welcome smart, wealthy people with open arms, low tax rates, and even private tax treaties for the very wealthy. They know that smart and wealthy people place few demands on government services and can provide great benefit to an area by creating new businesses that employ the local population. Faced with increasing tax burdens and envy in the industrial democracies of Europe and North American, what will smart people do when technologies like Teledesc tie the whole world together in 2002? Leave. Who will be left? The dummies. Think about it. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – "Maximum wage"??? You are actually suggesting, presumably with a straight face, that the public give you the right to decide if someone is making too much money, and then let you take it away??? Boy, *there’s* a sure way to motivate hard work and achievement… Yeah, If you make over 2,000,000 bucks a year.  The rest goes to society.  Screw Bill Gates and the Multimillionares who make up the top 1% of the wealth.  Thanks to Reagan-Bush right now if they have decent accountants they pay NO taxes.

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:However Americans are often percieved as :1. overweight, :2, politically naive, :3, bullying, :4, smug, :5, hypocritical and the list goes on ..

I don’t suppose we’ve all bothered to notice these traits in others, just on this list alone, that are not from America.  I have to say that on several ngs I am treated like shit when I post from AOL.  However, when I say the exact same thing and post from another domain I am usually treated more fairly.  That sort of response behaviour is almost exactly the same to the traits listed here for what Americans are often perceived as…  

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as for your presidents….. JFK, Nixon, Clinton just 3 that immediatly spring to mind …..  

You didn’t really say anything about them so I was wondering…. Which of their faults you were referring to?

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