I'll e-mail Intel's support. I explained the situation and asked for the spacer dimensions and threading, and the Support Man responded with a laconical statement "Motherboard X is not compatible with chassis Y. He responded with a more verbose rendition of the same dogma. I have no doubt in my mind that this utter imbecile spent a lot more paid time handling the ticket the way he did than if he'd just given a call to someone with actual technical knowledge at worst.
Of course, I also was not the brightest, because in retrospect I would probably have avoided the futile battle trying to use the broken commandline interface that was the Support Man, had I just remarked; "Oh, my bad; I actually have this newer, Compatible and Supported motherboard!
Well, I eventually acquired a dozen different spacers and found the correct one, proceeded with the install No big deal, I'll just saw off a piece You guessed it; I didn't have a saw. I didn't have any proper tool. But I had an improper one. I had a very sharp four-inch fruit knife. No big deal. It took me a little over two hours, a lot of sweat, countless profanities to the point I had to start inventing new words to express the depth of my disappointment with the Universe, a cramped hand with calluses, and a retired fruit knife a true vet.
If I was facing the same situation again and the Support Man was my significant other, and they were in possession of the only hacksaw on Earth, I'd grab the fruit knife any day of the week. To this day I imagine, hope, dream and pray that in this cosmos there exists a mechanism that somehow transfers my pain to the Support Man of Intel.
My research is still ongoing, but currently I like the concept of karma, and an armored bulldozer rampage is a close second. When you said "dinosaur companies" I assumed you meant those companies who wrote some good software in but never updated it, and yet still have annual Black Friday announcements offering big discounts.
Or that still have draconian copy-protection measures in place decades after anybody has had any desire to pirate them. Acting like they are still the T. Rex of the jungle, not noticing that little furry mammals have eaten all their eggs.
Although I really like their products for the sound, sadly I have to agree with many points from OP. Somehow I managed to get my head around the plugins and how to incorporate them into my workflow as far as it gets, but the few contacts with support never worked for me, never.
Unfortunately Cakewalk's support didn't give me much hope as well, regarding IKM stuff and my bug reports. It's like these two don't like to walk the same direction and time.
When they release a new product. They will eventually fix the major bugs with the updates. Don't buy individual products. Wait for their Total Studio deals or group buys. The free stuff rocks!!! Reminds me of Synful Orchestra! Glad I never brought it even though I liked his approach. Really no major development for long long long time! I don't have the same experience with music software like you and I also don't know what company you are talking about.
But I have to address your complaint about no updates! IMO if a plugin provider delivers plugins with a reliable and solid code, then it is not necessary for endless updates! I have a couple of older plugins that did not have updates for a longer period, but run perfectly Klanghelm, Toyko Dawn, If I look at the update history of my plugins where available! Concerning GUI sizes I like bigger ones, but most that I have are enough big there are some exceptions!
The only updates that were crucial for me are to bit flipper! I don't like updates like AT4 to AT5, that look nice, but concerning resource impact it is completely a regression! Classic example was when many customers said the contrast wasn't great on ST4 UI. Their answer was that it's not the UI, it's your screen that somehow seems to be just fine with all other UI's. As I said before, I did not start that early. I think I started about with music software. And I still use a lot of plugins that did not have an update since about Look also at the Cakewalk plugins, there are many that date back very long:.
IMO many of those plugins are very capable in spite of their older! For me the lack of updates may be a sign that the codebase is actually solid. People need to get back to thinking about software as purpose-built tools instead of hydras with fuzzy motives that end up doing a little bit of everything badly if given enough development time. When you have an appropriately defined, clear purpose and role in mind for the software project, there exists an attainable state where the software is complete.
The contemporary digiconsumer doesn't seem to appreciate complete software. I definitely don't need to have all the shiniest new toys, my favorite soft synths are my AIR Hybrid 3, Xpand! I don't think Hybrid 3's code has been touched in half a dozen years, probably the same with the others. I am a big fan of how older plug-ins were coded for a world with slower processors and less memory.
Hybrid is much less likely to bog down my system than say, Chromaphone. I like the sound quality and configurability of the Sonitus fx that come with Cakewalk, but I never use them because their UI's are cramped. And I don't even have huge screens. But the debate isn't about utility, we were talking about these companies trying to market their aging software as if it were the latest hottest stuff. For instance, iZotope seem to understand that even though the Exponential reverbs are some of the best-sounding reverbs money can buy, they can't market them as they might be able to if they gave them face lifts.
What examples are you thinking of here? I ask because the only subscription-model software I use is Cakewalk, which has a charge of zero, so I'm not familiar with how it's played out elsewhere Adobe for instance.
In theory, the biggest pitfall of seat-licensed software is that, due to the need to attract new and upgrade licenses, development becomes focused on new features that will induce people to buy them. It would be nice if what really drove software purchases was how less crashy the latest version is, but it just doesn't work that way because people aren't savvy enough software shoppers.
Companies aren't going to come out and say "the last two releases were bug-laden monstrosities, but we fixed that without adding any new major features and now we would like you to pay us more for the new version.
Programming hours cost the same no matter what they are doing, so do you listen to the complaints of people who have already bought the program and spend your hours fixing them, or do you add new features and try to get more people to buy it?
You point out a potential pitfall of the subscription model where there may be less incentive to improve the software if the company perceives that the revenue stream is captive.
As I say, I have no real world examples to look at. I have seen quality suffer under the seat license model, but all of the payware software licenses I own are seat model. From what I understand, Pro Tools has become less bug-ridden since they started pushing subscriptions.
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