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Re: Mac OSX [message #27121 is a reply to message #26986]

Tue, 09 October 2001 13:58

John-David T. Smith is currently offline

John-David T. Smith
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Registered: January 2000

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Randall Skelton wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, JD Smith wrote:
>
>> I for one am significantly re-evaluating my future use of IDL as a
>> consistent cross-platform solution, and I would urge you to do the same,
>> and at the very least let RSI/Kodak know if their careless and negligent
>> business practices have affected you.
>
> I'm with you. The handling of this was absolutely terrible and while I
> can understand that tough business decisions are needed in time of
> difficult economics, RSI should have (at a minimum) made a formal
> announcement to their Macintosh users. As per my last message, I am have
> halted my IDL development as a direct result of this. Moreover, I am
> urging our VMS/linux/Macintosh department users (site license of 100+) to
> reconsider our allegiance to RSI/Kodak. I give a talk on atmospheric
> retrieval simulations on Thursday and had planned to use IDL to do it
> interactively... I've since made transparencies and obscured the fonts to
> ensure that nobody knows it was originally done with IDL. Student
> exercises were originally going to be done using IDL but I am now in the
> process of converting scripts/functions into Matlab (the folks at
> Mathworks were happy to give me a demo license for the 50+ lab computers).
> In short, I'm really ticked off about this!
>
> This may be one of the last times I am able to thank you, David, Pavel,
> Craig and Jim P. for helping to explain IDL over the past year-- and to
> think, I was just starting to understand IDL objects...

Here's a funny quote from one of the topmost linked stories on the
rsinc.com webpage, titled: "IDL Helps Teach Children With Hands-On
Universe":

Dr. Pennypacker knew he needed a powerful application that was
simple enough for even a kindergartner to use, and was based on
technology that is well-supported, highly extensible and
compatible with both PCs and Macs. He selected IDL...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What hath pointy-head marketoids wrought?

JD

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		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Tue, 09 October 2001 12:17
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 11:08
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:54
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dick Jackson on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:49
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:24
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:02
		Re: Mac OSX By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 09 October 2001 07:26
		Re: Mac OSX By: Ian Dean on Tue, 09 October 2001 01:28
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 21:14
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 08 October 2001 13:35
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:12
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:19
		Re: Mac OSX By: Paul Woodford on Tue, 09 October 2001 19:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:55
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:58
		Re: Mac OSX By: colinr on Wed, 10 October 2001 04:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:20
		Re: Mac OSX By: R.Bauer on Wed, 10 October 2001 00:34

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