#IPAS idea for blur?
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>> By the way, when do you expect to release your Film IPAS?
Siggraph. Actually, the program is done, it's just my favorite part,
the documentation, that's left. <g>
If you can't communicate the software to the user, you ain't got the
software. <g>
Jack:
Interesting to see how different people view the end result! <g> I've had
some calls to take the routines, docs or not!
Greg
Hackers, Greg, they're all hackers. Stay away from them; they'll only get you
into trouble. No decent, respectable computer user would even _think_ of
operating their new software without first reading the documentation cover-
to-cover. <g>
– J
Jack –
With as slow as most of the super-compresso installation routines are these
days, you have PLENTY of time to read the manual while you're installing.
BUT (and take heed, gentlemen) when you do do (oops, don't tell) something like
try and use your install time constructively, you end up finding out that the
machine has been waiting for you to change disks (I'm not going to make the
joke) for 5 minutes because you've been caught up reading!
PLEASE make those Install-routine people ADD A BEEP PROMPT at disk-change
points!!!!!
Dave
(PS, call Microsoft and tell them to do the same thing to their Format and
DiskCopy routines so I don't have to keep going in with DiskEditor and
changing one of the prompt characters to BELL!)
Well, you're right, it's probably pretty easy to read through all of the 3ds
Reference Manual during installation, but you can't really go through the
tutorials until you've got the program installed. <g> As far as changing the
installation program, that's Autodesk's baby. We couldn't even get them to add
blinking cursors. (Though I think we might have blinking cursors for Release
3.) Would be nice though. Adding sound to the install program would make it a
true multimedia product.
– J
Guess I just need noisier floppy drives.<g>
Dave
Jack,
I've also noted that recent installation programs seem to defeat floppy
disk caching. Installs used to go much faster.
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates
Installation programs are designed to take advantage of any decrease in speed.
– J
Why just a bell? You could play a wav file with a "Yost Chorus Line" singing
the entire Tom Waits' "Small Changes" album while files are copying and
decompressing, and when a song stops, then you KNOW that you have to change the
disk to continue with instalation and another song. Even you can ask your
dealer for a custom version with your favourite musicians (Ms.Carol Bartz could
sign if someone ask for Madonna -but could be Madonna be called musician. We
can call it Karaoke Installation Program or The Jambo-Mambo for 3dsr3.
Ana
ps.Seriously, installation needs a bell or Yost can include the whole program
in CD in order to save time.
Ana,
Yes! That's a great idea, being able to install 3DS from the CD, that is. If
Corel can do it, why not 3DS?
Bailey
I'd rather hear a song (like something off of Waits' Bone Machine) when things
CRASH! At least you'd have something to listen to while you do the slow boil
telling yourself "I KNEW I should have saved, I KNEW I should have saved, I
KNEW I should…."
Dave
Great idea! CD-ROM as anger therapy! Maybe someone will get the idea and
publish a CD that will detect a system crash and automatically play a soothing
voice listing 675 Mbytes of reasons why you *shouldn't* punch out your
expensive monitor <g>.
Crashes!? Those are times to be optimistic…why not Idle's "Always look on the
bright side"? (Martin Foster has it assigned to windows fatal errors <g> Just
kidding, Martin.
Ana
Ana,
>> Crashes!? Those are times to be optimistic…why not Idle's "Always look on
the bright side"? (Martin Foster has it assigned to windows fatal errors <g>
Just kidding, Martin. >>
That's a great idea! Assign funny quotes from your favourite movies to terrible
events <g>.
Crashes!? Those are times to be optimistic…why not Idle's "Always look on the
bright side"? (Martin Foster has it assigned to windows fatal errors <g> Just
kidding, Martin.
Ana
<<No decent. respectable computer user would even think of operating their new
computer software without first reading the documentation cover-to-cover.>>
Jack, you forgot to mention the other requirement in addition to reading all
the documentation: everything must be MEMORIZED!
Alec Jason
Especially the index.
– J
Jack:
And besides, without people like us, the world would be left totally
unprotected from people like Gary and Gus! <g> (The "G" Team!)
Greg Pyros
Gahhhhh, goooohhh, daaahhh, drew, drew, drew, daaahhhh, why worry? <g>
Gus (why be normal?)
Good grief.
– G
Aren't you supposed to write the docs first, so you know what to program? 😉
John,
specs != docs
Bailey
John:
>> Aren't you supposed to write the docs first, so you know what to
>> program? 😉
Oh, so that's how it works! Hey, Gus, hold off on that new program! <bg>
Greg Pyros