That's not the point. Here's a quote from the xanim home page:
There is a new Star Wars trailer that has been recently released and it uses the currently unsupported Sorenson Video codec. I have contacted Sorenson about licensing their codec. They responded that Apple won't allow them to license it to others. You may want to nicely send a single email message to Sorenson and Apple asking about unix and/or xanim support for the Sorenson video codec.
For the record, I would gladly add support for Sorenson if allowed to.
I find it sad how disingenuous and clue-free Apple continues to be. They lobby heavily to get QuickTime accepted as an Internet standard, then refuse to allow non-Mac/Win folks access. This is consistent with their recent history. Bundled browser: Microsoft. Bundled Java: Microsoft.
One would almost think Microsoft had given them a large quantity of money... Naww!;-)
Check if the ground from the drives ground pins (on the power/IDE connector) is perfectly continuous with the case.
Hey, yeah. I had that exact problem long ago with big SCSI 1/4" drive (an Archive Scorpion i think). The thing would only work setting on top of the computer, but not when bolted in. It didn't like the case ground.
Think I disconnected a ground strap in the drive to make it work.
An excellent article, but one point is interesting. The article states:
...the most serious criticism a customer can make is to "actually return the box. And that almost never happens."
I don't know where they shop, but around here (S. California) the software stores will not accept opened software for return. Only as exchange for the same title.
If it doesn't work with your system, then it's your fault. You didn't read the requirements right, or you have the wrong machine or something. It's your fault. Go away.
Of course, those are Windows apps. I mostly run Linux, which is generally quite reliable. The applications with the worst reliability are non-open-source, commercial programs:
Netscape Communicator
Stardivision (now Sun) StarOffice
Corel WordPerfect (which I've given up on)
OpenSource if definitely the way to go.
P.S. - Netscape did crash while I was typing this.
Unfortunately, that doesn't mitigate anti-competitive behavior.
I used to work for a PC manufacturer that made (among other things) desktops & notebooks. When Intel discovered that we were using a competing processor in a notebook (they had canceled their equivalent processor), they shorted our allocation of desktop processors. Ouch!
PC's aren't much good without processors. The company down the street made a similar mistake, and were without product for several months. They never recovered, and were eventually acquired by a competitor.
Interestingly enough, the feds later came around asking if Intel had ever done anything like this. Presumably, they had received complaints from other companys. The now frightened company replied "Oh, no. Our good friends Intel would never do that."
I've used post.office on both NT and linux, and intermail on linux & Solaris. We did not have a large number of users (Last I checked, the @Home folks were using intermail. Maybe you can get some feedback from them?
I will observe that post.office was easier to get running in a unix environment than NT... but this was in NT 3.51 days, and the service packs were being a pain.
Bogus numbers: It doesn't take into account the monies lost to date from having a monopoly stifle software and hardware innovation. Also doesn't take into account the high price people are forced to pay for windows in the absence of competition.
Another interesting point: higher costs due to multiple incompatible windows? There is the current situation, not a new thing. For example, we currently have:
Boards with the new TNT2 chipset are about to debut, and it's specs make it look great for both gaming and OpenGL work (hi-res, 32 bit Z buffer).
But there doesn't seem to be anything going on. Are Nvidia being uncooperative? Do we ned a mini-campaign to get their attention? They are #2 behind 3Dfx in the windows world. Apparently their strategy is to prevent any possible sales to Linux users.;-)
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I find it sad how disingenuous and clue-free Apple continues to be. They lobby heavily to get QuickTime accepted as an Internet standard, then refuse to allow non-Mac/Win folks access. This is consistent with their recent history. Bundled browser: Microsoft. Bundled Java: Microsoft.
One would almost think Microsoft had given them a large quantity of money... Naww! ;-)
Hey, yeah. I had that exact problem long ago with big SCSI 1/4" drive (an Archive Scorpion i think). The thing would only work setting on top of the computer, but not when bolted in. It didn't like the case ground.
Think I disconnected a ground strap in the drive to make it work.
I don't know where they shop, but around here (S. California) the software stores will not accept opened software for return. Only as exchange for the same title.
If it doesn't work with your system, then it's your fault. You didn't read the requirements right, or you have the wrong machine or something. It's your fault. Go away.
Of course, those are Windows apps. I mostly run Linux, which is generally quite reliable. The applications with the worst reliability are non-open-source, commercial programs:
OpenSource if definitely the way to go.
P.S. - Netscape did crash while I was typing this.
I used to work for a PC manufacturer that made (among other things) desktops & notebooks. When Intel discovered that we were using a competing processor in a notebook (they had canceled their equivalent processor), they shorted our allocation of desktop processors. Ouch!
PC's aren't much good without processors. The company down the street made a similar mistake, and were without product for several months. They never recovered, and were eventually acquired by a competitor.
Interestingly enough, the feds later came around asking if Intel had ever done anything like this. Presumably, they had received complaints from other companys. The now frightened company replied "Oh, no. Our good friends Intel would never do that."
Cowards.
I will observe that post.office was easier to get running in a unix environment than NT... but this was in NT 3.51 days, and the service packs were being a pain.
Then they were acquired.
Or, as Wired might have put it:
Another interesting point: higher costs due to multiple incompatible windows? There is the current situation, not a new thing. For example, we currently have:
Signs your environment is in danger:
- The deck starts to tilt sharply
- Your upper management wastes time changing the company's name/logo
Examples of the above:
- The Andrea Doria
- AST Research
- Borland
- Silicon Graphics
But there doesn't seem to be anything going on. Are Nvidia being uncooperative? Do we ned a mini-campaign to get their attention? They are #2 behind 3Dfx in the windows world. Apparently their strategy is to prevent any possible sales to Linux users. ;-)
Regarding reason 1, Voodoo Rush actually can render into a window.