This reminds me of how computer games used to have labels on them saying things like, "320k RAM required, EGA reqired." I never saw a label that said, "This brand new, cutting-edge game would have been a fantastic, involved and exciting VGA, multi-disk adventure, but we had te restrict it to one single-sided, single-density 5 1/4 floppy, CGA graphics, and 128k RAM because some of you will be too stupid to figure out how to use a game with more than one floppy disk and some of you will have computers that don't have graphics and other hardware that became standard 10 years ago. Also, we thought you might mess aroung with your computer until you messed things up, so in order to prevent and cope with this possibility, so we didn't bother to implement any save features and all files and information on your computer will remain locked and totally unchangeable until you decide to uninstall our product at some future point. In addition, this game would have come out earlier and been cheaper to produce and purchase if we had used a more current computer language, but we thought that neither you nor the professional tech support people at your company would be capable of figuring out how to download and install a free, widely used, self-installing program which would have enabled us to do so. We at Penetrode would like to extend our thanks to you for choosing our product and hope you enjoy using it."
-------------------------------------------------------- desire for compiling is to create an application that is easy to distribute and remains reliable into the future no matter what the customer does to their PC. > Currently if the customer doesn't have the Java VM or has > an incompatible version (or a just plain messed up install) then we have all kinds of support nightmares. This isn't a viable way to do business > except for a very small portion of the market. > This is a basic Java problem, not an issue with Java 3D. > > - John Wright > Starfire Research > > > "Dirk L. van Krimpen" wrote: > > > > Maybe better not to take risks. While my programs are > running well, the > > last thing I want is having to bother with additional > software on top of that. Thanks Peter. > > Dirk __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".