Robin Whittle[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
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I think this is an accurate analysis of a really sad situation. Like
King Canute, the record companies are devoting most of their thinking
and resources to holding back the tide.
As
At 01:43 PM 10/7/2002 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
Perhaps the record companies need to see what equivalents of
pilings or surfboards they can find for their business models.
Eventually they will have to come to terms with the fact that what
technology (e.g., Thomas Edison and the phonograph) can
Best means best for some specific objective.
Optimal means the same thing as best.
Depends on what you want to do.
There are countless examples of problems for which
different algorithms scale differently by problem
size,
e.g. for N=10, Algorithm A is the fastest solution,
but for