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Re: IDL for IRIX [message #33595 is a reply to message #33594]

Tue, 14 January 2003 20:21

mike7510
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Registered: January 2003

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GrahamWilsonCA@yahoo.ca (Graham) wrote in message news:<eda30d78.0301141520.49b9392f@posting.google.com>...
> mike7510@hotmail.com (Michael de la Fuente) wrote:
>
>> I'm a student at RIT in NY and am taking an Imaging Science course
>> here.
>
> You have your own personal IRIX workstation? Well, you must have more
> money than I do...

nah, just a smart shopper on ebay :-)

> In any case, RSI would be a little hypocritical if
> they started giving away the IRIX license for the student price given
> that they have outright refused to let me purchase IDL for linux at
> the student price :(
>
> I hate to dust off and mount my linux soap-box but the thought of
> actually paying money for a bloated M$ windows operating system just
> so I can have the privilage using IDL at home is just silly. I am
> doing a masters course in imaging having spent the past 5 years
> writing visulization tools in the medical imaging industry. I write
> all my assignments for my remote ensing and imaging courses in c++
> and/or python and write data files that I can read using IDL in our
> computer lab if I must. When our instructor realized that the student
> version was only for windows, she revised her policy regarding
> assignments so they could be coded in any language that students have
> access to. To be honest, usng the IDL language for anything more
> vizsualization is like coding in the stone ages anyways! It seems the
> folks who implimented the IDL objects only read a quarter of thier CS
> texts or did I miss something? If you need real visualization toolkit
> use VTK.

all of the assignments are to be done in IDL so I can't just pick and
choose whatever software I want to use.....no big deal I suppose, just
thought it would be nice if I could buy a copy for my own personal use
or if anyone out there wanted to do a licenses transfer for a fee of
some sorts.....good luck with your masters degree!!!
-Mike

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		Re: IDL for IRIX By: mike7510 on Wed, 15 January 2003 16:31
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: mike7510 on Wed, 15 January 2003 12:53
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 15 January 2003 09:50
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 15 January 2003 06:59
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: skelton on Wed, 15 January 2003 00:55
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: mike7510 on Tue, 14 January 2003 20:21
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: mike7510 on Tue, 14 January 2003 19:58
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: GrahamWilsonCA on Tue, 14 January 2003 15:20
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 14 January 2003 13:55
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: mike7510 on Tue, 14 January 2003 13:28
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 14 January 2003 07:15
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 14 January 2003 07:20
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: Nigel Wade on Tue, 14 January 2003 01:20
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 13 January 2003 09:10
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: Nigel Wade on Mon, 13 January 2003 08:05
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Mon, 13 January 2003 04:42
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: Nigel Wade on Mon, 13 January 2003 03:25
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: mike7510 on Sun, 12 January 2003 15:09
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: R.Bauer on Sun, 12 January 2003 06:17
		Re: IDL for IRIX By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Sat, 11 January 2003 16:55

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