Certainly it's off topic - but the topic was pretty lame in anycase. However I agree with you - Bentley have messed up bigtime. MicroStation on a Unix box beats AutoCAD on WinNT hands down - what on Earth were they thinking? Still there's time for them to resurrect themselves - OpenSource it and make money from support and the add-on packages like 3D rendering Artlantis thingy. Get with it Bentley. Well off topic!
Too late - a post on Slashdot counts as "Public Realm" - remember the guy who tried to patent the waterbed? - No! Of course not.... it wasn't possible. Robert Heinlein had already/.ed it in a book.
No contest - Dan Simmons is BRILLIANT - anyone that can make me laugh, curse and cry like he does is a Master - totally enthralling and involving. David Zindell'sNeverness series is intelectual and otherworldly like no other while Ian M Banks has an earthy (no pun) surealism that makes the strangest situation believable - an oxymoron? - perhaps - but read Against A Dark Background as I did on a train in China and you might begin to understand.... despite the attractions of that wonderful land his vision still engaged.
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Certainly it's off topic - but the topic was pretty lame in anycase. However I agree with you - Bentley have messed up bigtime. MicroStation on a Unix box beats AutoCAD on WinNT hands down - what on Earth were they thinking? Still there's time for them to resurrect themselves - OpenSource it and make money from support and the add-on packages like 3D rendering Artlantis thingy. Get with it Bentley. Well off topic!
Too late - a post on Slashdot counts as "Public Realm" - remember the guy who tried to patent the waterbed? - No! Of course not .... it wasn't possible. Robert Heinlein had already /.ed it in a book.
No contest - Dan Simmons is BRILLIANT - anyone that can make me laugh, curse and cry like he does is a Master - totally enthralling and involving. David Zindell's Neverness series is intelectual and otherworldly like no other while Ian M Banks has an earthy (no pun) surealism that makes the strangest situation believable - an oxymoron? - perhaps - but read Against A Dark Background as I did on a train in China and you might begin to understand.... despite the attractions of that wonderful land his vision still engaged.