ISSN 1061-5725 This Month’s Presentation Vol ume 24, No. 10 October 2006 Nelson H. F. Beebe University of Utah www.ucs.org Department of Mathematics This Month’s Meeting: Wednesday 11th at 7 pm Presents: Check Out Personal Information, the Security & Encryption Review of Books technically edited or 8 GB (co-)written by Us Monstor Nelson H. F. Beebe Drive on Page 4 Utah’s Award Winning Computer Magazine! ) ™ By Cliff Millward, Editor cliff [email protected] Further Fumbling Finale Other News As I stated in last month’s edition I will inform you How about a wireless keyboard and mouse operated about the differences in the music writing programs Fi- by something similar to Bluetooth? The Finnish com- nale and Sibelius. Here are this month’s munication giant Nokia announced it discoveries. recently. It is called “Wibree.” They both I am writing a composition for operate at 2.4GHz and have a similar Oboe d’Amore et Cor Anglais et String range. Orchestra. In so doing I, of course, am Recent The difference lies in the continuity including a cadenza (a part of the com- of the data being transferred. Bluetooth position in which the soloists play at is suited to streaming data or voice con- liberty without the string orchestra.) The Ramblings nectivity. Wibree is ideal for infrequent differences between Finale and Sibelius bursts of data. It is similar to wireless are profound as illustrated below. LAN but optimized for smaller devices. It could be used for heart-rate monitors, Finale sports watches, wireless keyboards and mouses. It is rumored the name derives from a combination of “wireless” and the fi ctional village Bree from The Lord of the Rings. ------- Sibelius Will Intel buy Nvidia now that AMD has bought ATI Technologies? Some think so as Nvidia’s share price jumped nearly 10 percent last week (Oct.4.) However, the deal (if it ever goes through) will be expensive as Nvidia’s market capitalization stands at $11 billion! The big question is, what will Intel do to counter As you can see, the differences in note spacing are this move by AMD; or does it really need to counter it? quite obvious. The notes in Finale are almost impossible Keep tuned for further information. to read whereas the notes in Sibelius are spaced evenly and very easy to read. Also, the notes are smaller which ------ is the style when writing a cadenza. Smaller notes can be produced in Finale also, but it requires a bit of manipu- You can now load Lotus Notes software, data and lation. I gave up on writing this composition in Finale personal fi les onto a fl ash drive or iPod using features when I encountered the cadenza problem -- as much as of the 7.0.2 release of IBM’s Lotus Notes and Domino, I tried, I could not get Finale to space the notes evenly. just released. Pay no attention to the “grayed out” time signature. This The action will also allow users to create blogs from action is what you must do to write a cadenza in either within their Lotus applications and to create RSS feeds program. You write the cadenza, count up the number of (defi ne) for the content they create. beats it requires, and produce a measure of this length. This program will also allow users to load their Lo- (The grayed out time signature will not print.) tus client, personal identifi cation information, security Needless to say, the more I use Sibelius, the more credentials, bookmarks and other customized elements I like it. Perhaps Finale will catch up with Sibelius, but onto a USB-compatible device, and launch it on any host until that time, if you are in the market for a music writing machine running the Windows operating system. program, I heartily recommend Sibelius. 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