It's hard to buy into that argument when it leaves us at the mercy of incompatible versions of Direct X and problems of dealing with third party drivers. In many ways, most the difficulties we experience started with and continue to be driven by the game world. For many years graphics and mathematical software was driven by the scientific community which valued stability and backward compatibility. When the market became dominated by game players who are willing to replace their entire systems every year, the business changed dramatically, not only in terms of the software but also in terms of the hardware.
Ed __________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel On Feb 8, 2013, at 1:41 PM, mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote: > Roger wrote: > > "VPython is an OpenGL based package. If VPython runs stably on Windows, > it's no thanks to Microsoft, Microsoft has been doing its best to embrace, > devour, and kill OpenGL since 1995." > > The kind of freedom OpenGL (or OpenCL) gives is the kind I don't want. > It's the "tunnel between worlds" stuff that Glen talks about. I this > sense, I applaud Microsoft for making it painful to do so. Those > technologies make us the frog in the heating kettle. I want the one good > world, not a dozen crappy ones. > > Marcus > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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