Re: [OT Canute] Re: [LINK] [Fwd: Interesting KPMG report on DRM]

2002-10-08 Thread Bill Stewart
Robin Whittle[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: . [lots of good stuff about the music business clipped] 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

Re: [OT Canute] Re: [LINK] [Fwd: Interesting KPMG report on DRM]

2002-10-08 Thread Steve Schear
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

Re: Optimal solution

2002-10-08 Thread gfgs pedo
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