Re: Newly Released Mathematica 5.1 Delivers Unmatched Performance for Handling Data
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- Subject: [mg55861] Re: Newly Released Mathematica 5.1 Delivers Unmatched Performance for Handling Data
- From: Gareth Russell <gjr2008 at columbia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 01:36:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Columbia University
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A few years ago, in the 4.x era, Theo Gray gave a presentation at one of the Macintosh Expos where he showed Mathematica on OS X running with full anti-aliased text AND graphics (using a nice animation to demo the graphics). This, it was claimed, was because Mathematica was now using OS X's native Quartz engine. Since then... nothing. Shortly after v5 was released, I head that it would be in v6. We'll see... Gareth On 2004-11-29 01:34:14 -0500, "Kevin J. McCann" <kjm at KevinMcCann.com> said: > Johshua, > > Thanks for the history lesson. I hope the WRI folks are paying > attention, but I suspect that the 5.0 comments will be dug up and > displayed when someone complains again about the same problem in 6.0, > 7.0, ... > > Kevin > > > Joshua A. Solomon wrote: > >> On 24/11/04 8:02 am, in article co1f6q$slm$1 at smc.vnet.net, "Kevin J. McCann" >> <kmccann at umbc.edu> wrote: >> >> >>> rotated-text problem has been with us >>> for at least two years. >> >> >> Andrew Watson (see below, from Google Groups) and I had a good laugh over >> this. >> >> Subject: [mg55861] "At long last, Sir, have you no shame?" >> Original FormatNewsgroups: comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica >> >> Saying first that I am a fanatical Mathematica user, in awe of the product >> and its developers, I nonetheless feel compelled to say that... >> >> I am absolutely astonished that Mathematica 4.0 has *still* not fixed the >> FrameLabel rotated text bug, which prevents vertical axis labels from >> appearing properly when rendered on screen on the Mac. This bug causes >> endless troubles for those of us who prepare figures for both printing and >> live presentation. This bug has been present since time immemorial, but >> elicits only sheepish chuckles from Wolfram developers when mentioned. What >> gives? Is this really something that has stumped the greatest computational >> minds of the end of the millenium? Is it really so low on the list of >> priorities that it has persisted for 10 years? Have you no shame? >> >> Andrew B. Watson >> NASA Ames Research Center >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------