I’m with you on this one. My personal preference would definitely be Revit rather than AutoCAD running on Mac OS, but it may not make much sense economically. Revit to me feels a bit more like an homogenous environment that could be easily “transplanted” to another operating system, but AutoCAD’s huge customer base must be still providing most of Autodesk revenue. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the number of people wanting to run AutoCAD on a Mac was bigger than the current Revit user base. Would be nice to see exact numbers. Anyway, I believe that over time it only makes sense if all Autodesk product come to Mac.

Cheers,
Piotr

Even if you do not bring autocad over to mac osx, please bring Revit over.

Kenn

How are you?

My name is Natali`, I’m a PhD student in the UK and I’m studying CML!
I’d like to know how you feel now, and also if you managed to stay in New Zealand!!

Besr wishes,

Natali`

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– then the window is abandoned and doesn’t respond. I wonder if I should add something to run from F# Interactive…

3DS Max isn’t a dominant app in the games space and hasn’t been for a couple of years now which is why AutoDesk acquired Alias. Max’s relevance in the market was fading. AutoCad used to be the standard for engineers, designers and architects, but with the advent of CAM and multiple other specialty enigineering areas that now have design along with the calculations, the markets got splintered which is why AutoDesk is constantly acquiring companies that are dominant developers in splintered markets that they once owned. The major issue with AutoDesk is that constantly buying dissimilar code bases, never integrating them, and essentially running them as full companies under one roof is eventually going to take them under when outside competitors continue pushing on them.

Architecture/Engineering is important to Apple, but ultimately since Apple is already heavily invested the entertainment space an AutoDesk acquisition would secure that investment by keeping the tools that create a significant portion of the content that’s fed into Apple’s Entertainment tools on the Mac and optimized for OS X. I don’t necessarily see Apple taking the same kind of stance as AutoDesk with the engineering tools just for the pure simple fact that many companies making competitive products decided to to partner with Apple a long time ago…However, where you look at say the SolidWorks and Bentley Systems markets they are rather large and those companies never sided with Apple. With buying AutoDesk Apple would secure a large investment they already have, become a market leader in architecture design and get the tools to get after some rather large markets in ways they haven’t seen before with a level of usability that they haven’t seen before. There are a lot of pluses. The major minus would be for Apple to take on the task of merging the similar code bases as much as possible to dramatically reduce development costs. As one reader mentioned porting the apps to OS X probably won’t be that hard, but merging the code bases would be another story, but if any company could do it, make the applications better and cheaper to develop it would be Apple.

OpenGL is fully supported on MAC & Linux
64-bit programming as been done AGES AGO on MAC & Linux
Most programs fully use processors multi-threading in Linux and MAC

… why would you go with something that works 1/2 the time.

Google works mainly on Linux and MAC…and its huge.
Why not Smaller companies.

Of the mindmapping and outlining software that I have tried so far, I found MyMind to suit my tastes. See: http://www.sebastian-krauss.de/software/ . Unfortunately, it is a Mac application and the application is outdated. I read somewhere that the author got injured in a car accident.

Anyway, MyMind’s behaviour is awesome and you can edit from both the mind map and the outliner. The available screenshot does not show it but each node can have notes, links and attachments.

~Alan

The N1 seems well-built and is quick and easy to use. It’s light and compact, almost to the point of not even being there, and it eliminates the need for Nikon and PC connector cables in order to utilize a standard GPS for data gathering.

I’ve shot Nikon equipment since 1975, and I’ve always been a tiny bit leery of using “third party” equipment: with some third-party flash units and lenses known to give users fits, I was concerned. How would the Solmeta fare? Would it work? Thankfully, worrying about the Solmeta turned out to be a waste of time and energy. The N1 mated up to the D3 with no problems, and worked flawlessly in terrain ranging from seashore to mountain top to desert. Single frames per second or high speed shooting rates were all no problem. I shot it on my D300, D2x, and D200 as well, and it never missed a beat. In short, if you’re in the market for GPS capability for your DSLR, Solmeta is worth a long look based on my experience with their N1.

The N1 is available from Solmeta for $288 USD, shipping included. Their website is http://www.solmeta.com.

Pros:

* Small size, simple camera interface
* Quick acquisition/ready-to-shoot times
* Creative power options
* Good build quality and materials

Cons:

* Cost – you can probably get a GPS capability for less going the traditional GPS route, albeit with a less user-friendly setup

http://www.digitalcamerareview.com/default.asp?newsID=3375

Apple now has os x server / i cal server at close to par with MS and at a far superior price. They need an office product to push os x server licenses and displace MS exchange from the corporate office.

You might be able to force maya users to dump windows and linux, but I don’t think apple can force autocad and 3ds max users to switch because of all the custom macros for autocad and the fact that 3ds games are being produced for windows.

It looks like autodesk, adobe, and apple all want to grow a business in content management server software related to whatever content their tools produce. With Autodesk’s products apple can develop back end apps that are integrated across all of apples pro software , and even if autocad/3ds max/maya users are still using windows, apple can push os x server and server based products.

The other big key is 3ds max. If apple controlled the tool that people use to develop 3d for games, it might be able to push more opengl and make it easier to develop games for both windows and mac.

And I’m a software engineer and I don’t see porting a .net app to mac as that big of a deal. Yeah, it’s been heavily integrated with windows since they added visual basic support eons ago, and autocad is a beast, but the chance to knock down MS in games and the office is worth billions to apple. Apple’s already done this on a smaller scale with their pro software and the user interface improved in the process.

About possibilities – who knows, how much of AutoCAD is written in .Net and how much is exposed as managed APIs. I would suspect that the whole core of AutoCAD is still written as unmanaged C++ code and just the “visual” bit on top are .Net. Beside it, there are .Net implementations that run on other platforms (www.mono-project.com). Also, in a rather unexpected move a few months ago Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing the whole .Net source code for everyone to look at – Apple could easily sign some sort of agreement with them and reimplement .Net on Mac OS. With their resources hardly anything is impossible.

@Robin:
Exactly! I think the first time I have read about DWF reader for a Mac was 2003? Maybe Apple decided to rectify the situation on their own… :-)
By the way, just like you, I’m also a big fan of mind mapping (www.psycho-project.org).

I read most of this as maybe Apple helping Autodesk port many of its programs to work on Apple since it is now an Intel cpu system. Running on both OS’s would be a win-win for the users of the software.

regards Ralf

Thanks for your support. It’s not too bad. Drugs seem to work fine so I’m all good.

I simply forgot to pay for the domain. Have just done it now. Next time I’ll have to pay for a few years not to have to worry about it. I’m still trying to work on Psycho from time to time but I have problem finding motivation to sit in front of the computer, especially that the summer is just starting here. :-)
I’m playing a bit with cairo trying to write very simple Psycho canvas.

First of all: didn’t know you were sick. Sounds bad. I wish you all the best!

Secondly (hopefully you don’t consider this inappropriate to ask right now) what’s going on with psycho? Seems the domain is hijacked :(

Really like how this will work out!

How are you these days?? Be great to know what’s been happening and if there is any support we can lend to you??

I still work on Psycho, although not as much as I would like to – I’ve got a lot of other things going on at the moment. But sometimes when I feel like taking my mind off those bad things I start working on that project. I would like to get to a state where people could use it, even in a limited way. That would allow for getting some more publicity and attracting some more developers.

So, I hope you’ll get a chance to use Psycho in a real life some day.

There really is need for a GTK-MindMapping tool, especially when looking at those great for Qt.

I hope you’re still continuing development :)

Thanks!

bloddy bad news… let us know how the tretment is going. Hopefully Nz gives you the residency. There is a quite good chance in the early stages so stay positive… our thoughts are with you cheers Barb (KIWI)

Thanks for getting back to me. Don’t worry, they are still in business, they replied to my email only a day later. That couldn’t understand why I was getting the message as they are still enrolled with Paypal. I discovered later that it was because I use Opera as my browser. When i tried it with Internet Explorer it worked fine and my di-GPS N2 is now ordered.

Cheers,

Richard.

Yes, I have got it from their website, and the transaction went through without a problem. I’m sorry to hear about your problem and I certainly hope they didn’t go out of business. It wouldn’t be good in case my receiver breaks down and I need to get it fixed or replaced… :-(

Cheers,
Piotr

Thanks for the review, very interesting,

I’m convinced but when I tried to purchase an N2 di-GPS mini from Dawn Technology, the shopping cart failed with a message from Paypal saying the link recipient is not an authorised shoppiong cart user – did you purchase from the dawntech website? I’m wondering if they are still in business.

Cheers,

Richard.

No, I didn’t use it under the trees but I tried it at home and it didn’t have any problem fixing the position even a few meters from the window. Pretty amazing. I recommend it without any hesitation.

Cheers,
Piotr

No, I didn’t use their software – I simlpy didn’t buy it. And I didn’t buy it because I didn’t believe that it provides any functionality worth paying for it.
As far as I can tell it allows you to produce a KML file to load to Google Maps and you can do almost exactly that with GeoRSS feed from Flickr.
That software would be a nice free addition to N2 but to buy it? I don’t think so.

Cheers,
Piotr

it’s me again. And just another question: Do you have meanwhile any experiences with the N2 di-GPS mini in forrests or next to trees? No problem at all? Or no chance?

And…again…thanks a lot.

Harald

I am just thinking to buy the N2 di-GPS mini for my Nikon D200. Just one question: Did you work also with their software?

Thanks a lot.

Harald

Google Code is pretty cool. SVN itself workd slightly slower then the one at Novell but the whole project website is much easier and nicer to use. BTS seems really good to me and the best thing of all is the Wiki that you can update through SVN.

many thanks for reply lorenzo

And that’s where I noticed Greg sounds like a mix of Jamie Oliver and Elton John when he got his fingers stuck in his piano. Norbert brought the conclusion by giving a Slovak biscuit to our favourite Polish.

I am on linux and have been trying to run Psycho. Unfortunatelly I’m a liitle stumped as to how to run or let alone build it. Can you sketch out roughly how I can run the app so I can tiker with it?

S.

Greets