Re: Re: Presentations Package Announcement
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- Subject: [mg84066] Re: [mg84047] Re: Presentations Package Announcement
- From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 05:47:03 -0500 (EST)
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Three points: 1) Everybody -- and I do mean !!!EVERYBODY!!! -- needs to see the presentation linked below. 2) Definitely, David Park's package should be licensed and integrated into the base product. 3) Microsoft never made reliability and security a major focus... unless you mean their own security. Bobby On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:13:50 -0600, sdw <nospam.warwick at jps.net> wrote: > point is, graphics and presentation construction capability had been > considered a core strength of Mathematica for as long as I can remember, > and yet functions that many of us would consider fundamental are only > found as > add-ons with varying levels of support and extra cost. I believe > Wolfram should look more globally at what people are doing with > mathematical graphics and do a much better job of reducing the > requirements for folks to either a: reinvent the wheel or b: purchase > extra packages. If that means that they license Mr. Park's code and > integrate the functionality directly, perhaps that is a good solution. > > for an example of extraordinary graphics, take a look at the following > presentation: > > http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92 > > I think we all know that capability and usability are two different > things. I often wonder how many hours people have to spend to get the > results they do when using Mathematica - what percentage coding, > debugging, etc. > before getting meaningful results, especially in larger projects that > include text and graphics, along with developing the calculation > strategies. > I wish that the measure wolfram used to include new functions was more > usability based - designed to reduce time to construct common tasks, > reduce keystrokes, etc. As a interesting measure, I wish that when > people posted to the demomstrations project that they also included an > honest indication of the time spent to develop / release their code. > for a system as diverse and complex as Mathematica, usability would > seem to be > as big a shift in focus as was reliability and security was for > Microsoft a few years ago. > > > on another note, I am also deeply appreciative of the level on online > support wolfram gives to this newsgroup. The Mathematica organization > is full > of very wise and gifted people. > > -- DrMajorBob at bigfoot.com
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- Re: Re: Presentations Package Announcement
- From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob@bigfoot.com>
- Re: Re: Presentations Package Announcement