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The marketing message is pervasive about everything Wolfram. It gets on my nerves a bit, too. However it doesn't detract much from the information. Once I sat
by DaniFong 18y ago
The marketing message is pervasive about everything Wolfram.
It gets on my nerves a bit, too. However it doesn't detract much from the information. Once I sat down and started actually using Mathematica 7, my mind was totally blown.
- ph0rque 18y ago> Once I sat down and started actually using Mathematica 7, my mind was totally blown. Unfortunately, 99.999...% of us can't ever reach this point, due to the cost of mathematica.
- DaniFong 18y agoThe student version costs $45, which is as much as a textbook, and less than one hundredth the cost of most semesters at American colleges.
- ph0rque 18y agoIf I understand the student licensing correctly, you can only use it for educational purposes, and only as long as you're a student. edit: also, the price is $140 for the student version: http://store.wolfram.com/view/app/mathforstudents/ http://store.wolfram.com/view/app/mathforstudents/
- DaniFong 18y agoSorry, I meant it's $45 for a semester.
- ph0rque 18y agoDidn't mean to get on this pricing quibble... as someone who modeled an H atom ab initio in solid-state physics class using Mathematica, I really like it, too. However, it is my firm belief that unless they make a free version available eventually [1], only a select few will get to play with it and use it to make new discoveries/progress. 1. Or someone makes an ad-supported web2.0 social-network version of it :~).
- sayrer 18y agoEh, lots of software costs that much. Maybe a better question is whether Mathematica can pay for itself. An even better consideration for this site might be whether Mathematica could be useful at a startup.