Hi On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:00:48PM -0700, Marshall Hampton wrote: > I completely agree - very well said, except that you don't actually > _need_ an internet connection to use Sage. And in fact South Africa > had rather low bandwidth when I was there (hopefully that's improved > with some new cables) but Jan's lab was running Sage beautifully.
The new undersea cables have improved South Africa's internet in general, especially large universities, not really smaller academic sites like us. I image sage locally on each (Linux) desktop. Thanks to everyone for all the feedback. Correct, do not focus on Wolfram. Correct, the price is an aside, and even if MMM were cheaper, I would not support proprietary software in education and to a large extent neither in research. Most researchers I know who "require" MMM are not nearly aware of the technical differences, in fact are rather stumped by having to learn a new tool. That may be wrong, but it's a reality. Full disclosure: I knew about the Wolfram tour of ZA. I heard they were visiting our institute, and assumed it was the same presentation promoting Mathematica. > > >http://www.wolfram.com/events/southafrica2010/ It is not, I now found out. It is the same person giving a talk on Evolutionary Game Theory and Artificial Life in Mathematica. It is not really an appropriate talk for me to raise these issues directly. He will probably focus on the science not the tool. If anything, should any students show an interest in that topic, we could follow up by showing them how to do equivalent things in SAGE. regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
