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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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iTunes on Campus: iTunes for colleges, universities: "Apple's iTunes on Campus program includes an iTunes institutional site license that allows any university or college to provide students with the iTunes application at no cost via a download from within your campus network or through individual CDs that you create." [The Macintosh News Network]
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iTunes 4.5 adds iMix, videos, trailers, WMA import, more: "Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday unveiled iTunes 4.5, a new version of the company's music jukebox software that will contain many new features. Included in the new version will be iMix, Music Videos, Video Trailers, support for importing Windows Media Files, free weekly downloads and Radio Charts." [MacCentral]
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Learning Python for scientific computing -- Comment()
Today I wrote my first complete Python programs. The other one simulated placing pairs of points into the unit square, and was rather easy to write using the array features of the 'numarray' packages of NumPy. The other program solves optimization problems with Differential Evolution (DE), and was a bit more difficult to write. I'll try to polish this DE code tomorrow. In any case, both codes are about as readable as the Fortran 90/95 versions I based them. However, Python has both good and bad points. The implicit typing of the variables posed suprises, when an array was of integer type when I though it would be floating-point. The interactive style of programming was nice to have when debugging. I also liked the easy was to document modules and functions in Python. There are still a lot of things to learn. I didn't much play with processing text files, for example. And programming graphical interfaces is way too vague for me at the moment. But perhaps I'll have the time to try these things as well.
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A year of revolution for iTunes: "When Apple launched its online music store in the US on 28 April 2003, few could have predicted the impact it would have. [...] But a year later, iTunes has helped transform the fortunes of the flagging global music industry, selling about 70 million songs and proving, once and for all, that there is a market for paid-for music online." [via MacSurfer]
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