Why did Constantinople get the works? Why is it nobody's business but the Turks?

New York was once New Amsterdam, why they changed it I don't know maybe they just liked it better that way?

create an open source alternative to it that can import the database or files that the MYOB product uses.

Sort of like OpenOffice.Org using Word files not one line of code from MS-Office but does the same thing.

Accounting rules are standard so it should be easy to implement another accounting program to replace it, the hard part is converting the data over to the new program.

Sure only if you can afford those same high priced lawyers that Century 21 Canada can afford.

Tada! BeBits!

Enjoy the BeBits archive, get a knife and fork so you can eat your words dinkypoo.

Office Ribbon, rejected almost as much as the MS-Office Assistant Paperclip and MS-BOB.

There were tiny buttons on the tool menu that did the same thing, all they did with the ribbon was make them bigger and rearrange them. I mean you had a button that looked like a floppy disk to save the file and nobody knew what it did or called it a "TV set" so trainers told them to "click on the TV set" button to save. Now this Office ribbon is rejected by users even if it was made to make it easier for them. You'd have built in speech to say "save file 'mywork1.docx' in my documents folder" and users still won't know how to use that either.

should have sued for civil rights violation and a hate crime of bashing religion. While the remarks about creationism are debate, the hate speech about religion is not.

I've seen this since the 1990's, most computer users even in a corporate environment don't know what the shortcut keys are. Even less know that the alt key plus the underline character in a menu can be make into a shortcut by holding down the alt key and the underlined letter as a shortcut.

I remember working for a FORTUNE 500 company and the help desk asking that the feature to search be added to my program, it already was, and I said "just try a control-f and the user can find any text in the edit area. the feature has been there since day one. Here is a FAQ file and the F1 key will load the help file to see more help." only to have them get mad at me and insist that the feature is not there and add it. They had no idea it was built into Windows, nor did the help desk, and that practically every program that uses a text box edit field has it. But for some reason it was my problem and I should add in the feature to my program in order to assist the users and help desk. They must have requested it hundreds of times, and had no clue it was always there, even with a "Find" on a button, and "Find" on the drop down menu, and control-F built into Windows.

Another thing was searching for active and inactive records, I had a drop down combo box that had active and inactive in it, it was on the main search page. They requested a feature to add in a search for inactive and active status for records, it too was in there since day one and part of the FAQ and help file. Still they claimed it was not.

But like always it was a programming problem, and written up on my performance review that I was not adding in features the users wanted, even if the features were always there since day one and fully documented. I later found out the trainers had skipped those areas because they were documented and they figured the users would read the FAQ or hit F1 to learn more about it.

It would require an ARM port to run on ARM tablet systems. Most tablets these days are ARM based. Microsoft wants Windows 8 to run on ARM tablets. If HaikuOS can run on ARM systems it will have a lower overhead than Windows 8 and thus run faster with less memory.

It has been a decade and still is in alpha release, if some major computer company was investing in it like they did the Mozilla Foundation we'd have a golden 1.0 release by now.

Commodore was the #1 home PC manufacturer and Atari was #2, look what happened to them.

HP/Compaq while number 1 cannot earn a profit, eMachines and Packard Bell used to be like that too, cutting prices so low to sell more, that they could not earn a profit. Also the help desks drive away customers as well when they offshore them and cannot help as well as native help desks. So they can sell all the computers they want, eventually their customers will leave them unless they fix those issues.