From: "Duane" <macastronomer@mac.com>
Date: November 19, 2007 11:15:45 PM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Imaging Source Abandoning FireWire?
I don't really consider the Apple Xerox exchange a sin. According to the Xerox guy who
showed it to Steve and Woz, he let them have the idea. Xerox had no intention of ever
doing anything with it. There were certain people at Xerox who actually thought it would
hurt their paper based market.
Apple took it from there. That's no more a sin than the fact that Gates paid 50k to some
unsuspecting dope so he could call it MS DOS and license it to IBM. At the time, IBM was
copying Apple, but ever since, it's been MS.
Do you sell a different version of Astro IIDC for microscopy? At work we primarily use Zeiss
driven cameras and software for light microscopy but I'm wondering what advantage Astro
IIDC could offer. Our electron microscopy is pretty specialized (Gatan and AMT).
I'll be watching for ver 4. I for one know that you'll drudge through it and come out with
an excellent upgrade. You have some competition out there but it doesn't come close.
Astro IIDC makes it fun—now if only my sky would make it as fun.
Do you think it would be possible to have Astro IIDC judge shape while it judges
sharpness? Sometimes there are very sharp images but the shape is distorted enough that
stacking causes problems. Size is another issue. Sometimes the image bows (or bubbles)
out and sometimes it does the opposite—making the disk change size. These things all
together affect the stacked image. I may not explain that well, but you've done it enough,
I'm sure you know what I mean. If these could be fixed (unbowed/resized) or tossed out,
my sky wouldn't have to be quite so perfect to glean a good shot.
Sorry, long post—cloudy night.
Duane
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:
Hi Duane;
On 19-Nov-07, at 12:23 AM, Duane wrote:
I for one appreciate solid software, and respect those of you who
code (because I can't
stand it). There are different perspectives here though.
ASTRO IIDC doesn't have much for competition and Milton doesn't
have to worry about his
program being spied and copied.
Yes I do worry about that. That's why I have the unlock code system
for starters.
As to competition, you only get competition if there a market. There
isn't much and the bulk of my sales are for Microscopy. And given how
Apple keeps making everything more and more difficult for
developers, it's just a question of time for the marginal non main
stream apps to disappear, like the geoscience are for the Mac.
Apple has Microsoft breathing down it's back and
copying everything they possibly can. We're also talking about a
whole OS here that has to
be compatible with "everything". There are going to be issues.
Umm - Apple has stolen a lot of ideas from Micro Soft too. We could
go back to the "Original Sin" where Steve did steal the mouse/ GUI
interface from Xerox.
As to issues, Apple should never have shipped Leopard the way it is,
It's not even late stage beta. They got forced to because they spent
a good chunk of this dev cycle on iPhone/iPod dev. So they short
changed us developers and said "too bad" - let them figure it out
with no documentation and no help. Tons of stuff has been dumped with
no warning and no replacement APIs - your just screwed and left to
find your own work arounds.
Anybody installing Leopard (or any other OS X upgrade) should do an
archive install if you
want a smooth running system without the hassle of re-installing
everything. I would
never do an upgrade any other way. I've done a couple dozen Leopard
installs without any
issues—all archive installs.
What I've heard i the best way to be successful with Leopard is wipe
and clean instal. And that's normally what I do because Apple does
get it wrong - just like every other company does. But it depends on
what software you have installed.
Now that Leopard is out, Apple should be helping their developers
get their apps up and
running on it. It's in everybody's best interest.
No - Apple should have let developers test software before they
shipped the GM version. Many developers got whacked with Leopard and
had their code working fine in all the alphas and betas, right up
until the final release.
And they are offering no help. Developers ask questions on the
various FireWire/ UBS and QT Apple Lists and get no response.
PS. Will version 4 be a paid upgrade? If so, how much will the full
price be compared to the
upgrade?
Paid upgrade. Price has not been determined yet. I've sunk about 12
months development (24 months time wise) time into it so far and have
a lot more testing to do, so I don't expect a release until 1st
quarter 2008. Prices will be going up soon as the fall of the US
dollar and rise of the Canadian dollar have cut my meager earnings by
40% over the last 18 months.
TTYL..
Milton J. Aupperle
President
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