[geeks] SGI users looking for software

[Shawn Wallbridge]

I downloaded it (and half their site, bad wget options). I haven't taken
a look yet. 

Maybe tomorrow night.

shawn

On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:44, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:13:36AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > Shawn Wallbridge <shawn at synack-hosting.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Looks interesting. I wonder how much documentation it comes with. We
> > > own a seat of Houdini at work and from what I have heard, it is quite
> > > complicated and not very user friendly.
> > 
> > That seems to be SOP for these types of packages these days.  By an
> > large, the user-friendly stuff is already inexpensive to start with, or
> > free...
> 
> It's not about user friendly versus non-userfriendly.  It is about
> choosing who your users are, then being friendly to them.  For the most
> part, any such application is going to require significant commitment to
> learning them, and I don't see any good way around having such
> requirements.  Granted, such requirements are what everyone needs.
> Others need simple.  And for them there are other programs, where one of
> the greatest features is they cut out what is unlikely to be needed, or
> make it a seperate program (re, the bryce/poser suit).
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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