Re: Newly Released Mathematica 5.1 Delivers Unmatched Performance for Handling Data
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- Subject: [mg52358] Re: Newly Released Mathematica 5.1 Delivers Unmatched Performance for Handling Data
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kmccann at umbc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:32:31 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I don't know firsthand that Wolfram said something like
I think WRI have said that this is a Mac problem due to the apple
implementation of postscript/PDF.
However, they did report to me that a similar problem under Linux is an
X11 problem. As I have before, I note here that we are buying
Mathematica to do a job, not to be told that it is X11's fault or Mac's
ps/pdf implementation fault. All that may in fact be true; however, if
Mathematica doesn't work properly then it is broken and there is a bug.
The sort of comments I have heard are really irritating, and I wish the
developers would just accept the responsibility for a bad choice on
their part, and then fix it. This rotated-text problem has been with us
for at least two years. I second the thought that new features are fine,
but how about putting a similar effort into fixing the old problems.
Kevin
Mike wrote:
> On 21/11/04 10:53 PM, in article cnq33i$2h5$1 at smc.vnet.net, "David Park"
> <djmp at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Here is one thing that I hazard is a new bug. I don't actually have 5.1 so
>>maybe someone can check it for me.
>>
>>The following works fine in 5.0.1.
>>
>>Needs["Graphics`Colors`"]
>>
>>f[x_, y_] :=
>>With[{v = Sin[x y]},
>> Which[v < 0, Gray,
>> v < 0.2, LightCoral,
>> v < 0.4, PaleGreen,
>> v < 0.6, CadetBlue,
>> v < 0.8, GeraniumLake,
>> True, UltramarineViolet
>> ]]
>>
>>Show[Graphics[
>> {RasterArray[
>> Table[f[x, y], {x, 0, 5, 5/101}, {y, 0, 5, 5/101}], {{0, 0}, {5,
>> 5}}]}],
>> AspectRatio -> Automatic,
>> Frame -> True,
>> ImageSize -> 400];
>>
>>If it doesn't work in 5.1, I'm sure there's a good reason.
>>
>>David Park
>>djmp at earthlink.net
>>http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>>
>>
>>
>>From: Time E. Time [mailto:timetime at gmail.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>>
>>New features and better algorithms are great, but does anyone know if
>>they've fixed any bugs in this release? Things like
>>
>>The rotated text bug on Macs where labels on the y-axis of frames are
>>garbled.
>
>
> I think WRI have said that this is a Mac problem due to the apple
> implementation of postscript/PDF. Eg. If you use Apple's 'save as PDF' the
> text is garbled but if you use Acrobat it comes out fine.
>
> Mike
>
>
>>The instability in large eigenvalue calculations, which sometimes make
>>it impossible to interrupt the kernel and other times cause the kernel
>>to unexpectedly quit.
>>
>>The "feature" where Mathematica uses a non-standard character
>>encoding, so that text in graphics is garbled when imported into some
>>other programs, like Illustrator.
>>
>>I'm excited about cluster analysis, but I can't bring myself to fork
>>over any more money to Stephen Wolfram until simple problems which
>>have existed for years are fixed.
>>
>>-Tim
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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