Paul:
I agree with most of what you said on your blog and I would have
posted a message there instead of to the whole OSG body except I know
some of the hardware vendors hang out here and may not see your blog.
It area I strongly disagree with is the automatic updates. That is one
feature that has caused much trauma in the past. Microsoft has a very
bad habit of pushing out patches that break applications. While we can
uninstall the patch in some cases we can not in others. And even when
we can uninstall the patch, Microsoft wants to help us out and reinstall
it.
Hardware drivers tend to have a more severe impact on the operation of
the overall system. I have heard many times on this forum through the
years that the best option to fix a problem (especially with ATI cards)
is to revert back to the previous version until the latest driver is
patched.
I really hope that hardware vendors do not adopt the automatic update
mode of operation because I fear it will lead to system instability. If
every hardware vendor was to do that we would not know what driver
update caused what.
Microsoft is right at the top of the list for poor system configuration
control. When they pushed Vista out through all of the PC vendors they
made the Microsoft Finger Print scanner, my HP flatbed scanner and my
Brother Laser Writer obsolete. They did this because they do not have a
proper view of backward compatibility. When I found out the laser
writer and scanner were not supported I chalked it up to "it's the other
guys problem" but when there own finger print scanner was deemed longer
supported I had to say that is Microsoft for you.
If it was not for the fact that my job is writing software in a PC /
Windows environment I would not have it at home either.
Bruce
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Martz
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:31 PM
To: 'OpenSceneGraph Users'
Subject: Re: [osg-users] OFT: Interesting commentary of the future of
OpenGL
Hm. Perhaps this is an appropriate time for me to unveil my discussion
forum, in which I have a blog stating my own opinions of OpenGL versus
D3D:
http://www.skew-matrix.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2
Paul Martz
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