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I liked it. To be honest, they could spend a gazillion dollars redeveloping everything for cocoa/ruby whatever its called these days, but you'd get so little benefit from it would be proper waste of time. it works. its works well (with the exception of a few bits and bobs). and like Joe says below. It saves rebooting your mac. I think there's a huge amount of nonsense talked about this stuff, by peeps that have very little experience or need to comment on it. some peeps just like picking a fight I think.

If you use the hardware/software from Apple. good. if you don't. Shut it up. Simple man.

you really think ever could use spaceclaim? I dunno man. Its easy. but not THAT much easier duder.. DS demo'ed some wicked Live Shape-based stuff at Devcon last year that let's users play with geometry in a controlled environment (say mockups of potential new products, with different variants and options etc). It then provided the data on trends and such. you know.. crowdsourcfabulous

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all the cool kids at the back - all the rude boys at the front... way it is...playlist:

The Faces
Arctic Monkeys
*** no idea ***
Warning - Biggie
99 Problems - jay Z
30 Something - Jay Z
Mama said knock you out - Ladies Love Cool James
Method Man (remix) - Method Man
Money - N.A.S.A
Lift up Ya Skirt - ODB
Ya Mama - the Pharcyde
Blue Flames - Quanuum MCs
**** something ****
The Pixes

Nice job man.. Wasn't the Leap an IDEO project ? (http://www.ideo.com/work/item/leap/) - and don't Steelcase own a percentage of IDEO.. strange how all these companies interact man..

CTRL C
CTRL V
CTRL P

Nice job dude... now i have to forget this and work up my version for d3d...

but its a sweet thing eh? the search stuff is fantastic - sure, needs some work, but it's functional and usable.. but for me, it's the part duplicate bit that really nails it.

Autodesk demo'ed some of this Augment Reality stuff at AU this year... This makes huge sense for a lot of things... its where google earth is going

I am sooo bringing a Wiggle dvd for you to watch when you're there.. good news Gabi

I wonder if this www.piranesi.co.uk would work? if you want that terrible watercolour look that architects just seem to love to bits..

Now then Mr. West, one thing you can't do is use NURBS as a plural.. Seriously...

Don't...

Wait, what the hell is plural of NURBS? NURBSes, NURBII...ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (as Al runs into a dark corner, recalling a drunken argument with a former editor of Cadalyst about the correct pluralisation of Octopus).

I'm wondering if www.fistfullamagicmarkersandfrenchcurves.com is available?

I love your guy/gal's email.. very true - I guess what's interesting is that while many of the vendors are espousing how much 3D can do for product development and industrial design, it always seems to come back down to starting with 2D sketching - something that's not going to go away, not going to disappear from the toolset and skillset of the industrial designer.. as a good friend and advisor of mine said to me over a rather boozey lunch - " the problem with using 3D as a design tool at the very front end of the design process is that clients tend to think, when seeing a 3D model, is that the design is finished, complete and ready to go to tooling"...

oh for institutionally financed computing power... that is a FRIGHTENING amount of detail

http://www.epiloglaser.com/zing_laser.htm

oh god man - I need ONE NOW

.... I'm going to have to start adding alledgely to my tweets duder 0- but yes, I love how this product looks - I want it, before I even know exactly what it does...

"Yeah, but Big Al also says dogs can't look up!"

I think I liked Hot Fuzz a little bit more - perhaps I just haven't worn out enough DVD copies of it yet..

but enough with the zombies dude - HELLBOY II is coming..

Ocell.

my advice (and considering my position, is maybe a dodgy thing to say) is to give HyperShot a try from Bunkspeed..

and Josh..

Cricket Bats are a prerequisite for zombie slaying..

"can I buy any of you ***** a drink?"

last year, when I hnad time on my hands, I spent time and went through my email for a year. I had 12,000 emails (very little spam) - I'm a journalist, so I get sent a lot of stuff. I went through everything I had and guess how much I whittled it down to - how many emails out of those 12,000 I kept.

56..

read it, delete it. that's my tip.

yeah - I wonder what Logitech are up to - I'm off to see them in the next couple of months - to have a poke around their R and D labs, so I'll let you know (if they don't get me with the cursed NDA).. like you said, things are changing quick..

as you know, I got my macbook earlier this year and just the multitouch is wonderfully productive.. I've been messing with the OSX version of Rhino and the multitouch implementation isn't quite there, but what is, work and works very nicely.. two fingers to rotate the model.. its slick and REALLY intuitive..

I spent a day at Dassault Systemes DEVCON event in paris this week. They consistently demod using the WiiMOte as a means of interacting with 3D data - demoing how the consumer electronics avialable now, should be able to work with 3D design software...

During an interview, the CEO (and later, the head of R+ D in a chat with me) also hinted that DS are working on some form of hardware device in their labs. so, you might get Catia (more likely 3DVIA) branded hardware - or maybe even SolidWorks..

Oh and I'm currently plating a 12" Cintiq tablet - love it - with the direct edit tools in SolidWorks, its pretty slick once you change the default assignments for the buttons.. but the first thing I did was duct tape one of the new small SpaceTravellers to the lower left hand side.. and it ROCKS man

what I love most about having you as a columnist is that its not just MY face that's peering out of the page in a slightly disturbing manner.. and yeah - it looks rocking man - I'm gagging to see it in the paper...

I just went apple nuts man - got myself a macbook air and for the first few months, I ran bootcamp and did everything the old way - then I decided time was enough and deleted the partition. No, I don't run much cad on it, but I have a workstation for that. What I do have on it at the moment is iRhino (you should check out the testing they're doing on an OSX version of Rhino, it rocks) and HyperShot - both work well.. What else is there in the way of CAD for the mac? not a lot - there's ashlar vellum, vectorworks, couple of other bits and bobs.. will the likes of solidworks ever port over? nope - its too damned expensive.. Siemens got stung with the Apple platform with NX and they're skipping releases..

I do love this mac thing though - its kinda pretty.. Mike said "paying 2-3 times as much for a computer just to have a neat looking case, a neat light up logo, or a fun to play with dock thingy" - umm - not here, I paid around the same as I would for a decent small, lightweight laptop that actually works, the light up logo I never see and the dock is OK - just the same as the bar in XP.. but one thing is does do is power on instantly - that's worth the price differential alone. I can pop it open, work on my reviews, our accounts, email, look at videos of monkeys on youtube, whatever and as with most things, if you can attribute a cost to the time you work, and hence the cost of the time you do nothing but watch a machine boot, then it doesn't take too long to pay back the extra...

I found some wicked cool plans for a two seater car on boingboing a while back and started modelling them up in SolidWorks - they were from 60s engineering magazine.. I was going to build the CAR of the FUTURE dude.. then I realized the drawings were kind of sketchy and abandoned the whole project..

and you know the one about Scott Harris running guns into Cuba don't you? ;)

when they had SW World at Cesears the other year, "lucky" Jon had to carry a letter that allowed him access to the venue, but not to the playing tables.. When they go back to LV, get jon on a quiet moment, go to cleopatra's barge bar and get the story.. its the only place to hear a story like that dude..