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  • Subject: [mg98830] Re: [mg98793] Re: Importing a large image...
  • From: George Woodrow III <georgevw3 at mac.com>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:33:11 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <grpiih$lqm$1@smc.vnet.net> <gruq3c$12j$1@smc.vnet.net>

I think that there is an inevitable difference between marketing (the 
video) and reality (the book).

It would be interesting to know if there is a quote similar to the one 
on p 215 of the v5 book in the electronic documentation.

george


On Apr 19, 2009, at 4:55 AM, sv07171024 wrote:

> "AES" <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote in message
> news:gs1nkf$7b5$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>> In article <gruq3c$12j$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
>> Szabolcs Horv=E1t <szhorvat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Naturally, Mathematica can't be good for any task.  Sometimes you 
>>> have
>>> to use other programs too :)
>>
>> That's not what certain other people (at least one of them named
>> Wolfram) are saying . . .  right?
>>
>> <http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/videos/?video=onesystem/onesystem>
>>
>
> Well, then he must have changed his mind since M5:
> "Although Mathematica does many things well, there are some things 
> that are
> inevitable better done by external programs". :-)
>
> (The Mathematica Book, 5th edition, p.215)
>
>



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