On 5/29/02 20:13, Jerry Yeager wrote [snip...] > >Not really. Media Player will play QuickTime movies if you just gotta >do it that way. But Apple has QuickTime players for windoze machines >as well.
I've used quicktime movies (Yea!) for distance education classes (Boooo) at an M$-Windows-centric place, and they worked just fine. In fact, they worked better than the 'standard' real-player videos most other folks used. (Mainly because realplayer has a history of distributing beta software as complete and having really bad installers.) > >Lobby for a more conducive Mac climate. Try taking the naysayers to >Apple's site and showing them the new Apple server machines... > >>4. Also my wife uses SPSS and they use windows at work. Can data sets >>be moved back and forth easily? Also are there issues with moving >>microsoft office documents back and forth or opening/ reading emails. > Some related answers: SPSS for Mac OS X (and for Classic) - info from SPSS' web site: Does SPSS 10.0 for Macintosh work on Apple's new OS X? >>Apple's new operating system features the ability to launch OS 9.1 within. >>However not all products built for OS 9.1 will fully operate in this >>hosted environment. SPSS 10.0 for Macintosh is one of these. Systems >>featuring OS 9.1 and OS X dual boot will be able to run SPSS 10.0 for >>Macintosh when booted to OS 9.1. And, most of SPSS 10.0.8a will operate in >>classic mode under OS X, however there are several known limitations with >>this configuration - including the ability to run iGraphs. A free upgrade >>from SPSS 10.0 to SPSS 10.0.8a is available at >>http://www.spss.com/tech/patches/SPSSM-1008.htm. SPSS 11.0.1 for >>Macintosh, which will run natively on OS X, is planned for release in >>September 2002. > The funny part is that they also say >>SPSS 10 for Macintosh will run on Macintosh OS 9.0.4 and above. We intend >>to introduce a Mac OS X-compatible version shortly after Apple releases a >>final version of Mac OS X to the public. Hmm... I wonder what the definition of 'shortly' is. It must be appx. 1.5 years. There's no mention of whether SPSS/Mac can read SPSS/Win files. One would hope that they could, though there is no guarantee. >MacLink Plus is very good at translating office files. Office under X >is not bad at it either. I seem to recall reading that SPSS was >bringing the software to the Mac again, but that may have been SAS. >have you checked their sites? As for SAS, this is what they have to say (which is odd, 'cuz I thought I remembered SAS saying that they were coming out with an OS X version): >>There will not be a carbon-compliant version of SAS for Mac OS X, but SAS >>Release 6.12 continues to run as a Classic application. I just wonder if the poor Mac user will still have to rent SAS without ever getting any real 'upgrades'. (For those of you reading this far out of curiousity - SAS has an appalling license agreement whereby the software works for 1 year, and then must be 'upgraded' (i.e. license fees must be paid again) in order to run. The 'upgrades' typically cost 1/2 of the price from scratch. Those associated with universities get it really cheap. Those not get bled dry.) Bill The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be June 25. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
