2010-06-27.log

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Utopiahhttp://freewheel.autodesk.com/webdevelopers.aspx 04:28
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kanzureUtopiah: have you seen their AJAX 2D DXF suite for drawing floorplans?05:45
UtopiahI just discovered it thanks to http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/05:46
kanzurehttp://butterfly.autodesk.com/05:46
kanzurelooks crazy: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/2d_to_3d_tool/05:52
Utopiahtbh I was a bit surprised when I saw those last tools but Autodesk isn't a minor software producer so... 05:53
kanzureyeah :) they even took on the risk of xanadu06:08
kanzure"SolidWorks is currently used by over 3.4 million engineers and designers at more than 100,000 companies worldwide."06:18
kanzureis 3.4M high or low?06:18
kanzure"FY2007 revenue for SolidWorks, including CosmosWorks, was 255 million Euros"06:19
kanzurewith 1M licenses sold06:19
Utopiahhttps://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dassault_Systemes_S.A. vs https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Autodesk06:23
kanzure"history of cad" by jon hirschtick http://vimeo.com/261221306:32
kanzureoh dear: http://web.archive.org/web/19961212073847/http://www.solidworks.com/06:34
kanzure"SolidWorks is backed by a group of venture capital firms including Atlas Venture; Burr, Egan Deleage; North Bridge Venture Partners; and Kubota Corporation."06:38
kanzureso, is this progression right? build1, build2, romulus, parasolid, ACIS?06:50
kanzure"In late 2000, around the time when Spatial was acquired out by Dassault Systemes, the ACIS file format changed slightly and was no longer openly published."06:58
kanzureolder acis file format doc: http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/sat/sat.pdf06:59
kanzureoops that doesn't exist any more. http://web.archive.org/web/20060915133732/http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/sat/sat.pdf07:00
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JayDuggerGood morning, everyone.09:47
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fenni don't get the autodesk 2d/3d stuff (maybe it's because there's no sound atm)11:15
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pmetzgerautodesk has sound?11:33
pmetzgerer, autocad?11:34
fennthe demo video on the website11:38
pmetzgerah.11:41
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pmetzgeranyone around a debian expert?12:13
Yocttarany1 know a good place I could freely uplao12:13
Yocttarupload a pdf to?12:13
pmetzgeryou mean, web hosting?12:13
Yocttarsomething to share... if its web hosting, let it be web hosting...12:14
Yocttarabout your debian question - you should just ask, maybe then some1 will be able to answer :)12:14
Yocttarplus u have the #ubuntu channel12:17
Yocttarwhere u probably will find more debian experts..12:17
pmetzgerI figured out my issue using google...12:41
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Yocttargoogle powah !13:25
Yocttarbtw: http://pdfhost.net/13:36
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pmetzgerbtw, first meeting of a "nanosystems" reading group in NYC on Monday night. I doubt anyone here is interested, but I thought I'd mention it.14:42
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kanzurepmetzger: there's a few of us in here who are from nyc15:01
pmetzgerYes, but probably only a small subset, and only a subset of those might be interested, if that.15:02
pmetzgerthough I did of course mention it on the chance that someone would be interested...15:24
kanzure*ahem* why aren't the nyc people piping up15:25
pmetzgerWell, few of them are probably reading, and fewer still probably are interested. :)15:26
kanzurefenn: who is peretx?15:34
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fenna langtonite and champion of future living http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifl/  why?16:24
kanzurejoseph is conning(?) him into working with biocurious16:27
kanzurejoseph is also getting anselm in on it apparently..16:28
kanzureunrelated: anyone know what 'Golden Triangle PCAST PICAT Meeting'?16:28
kanzure*is?16:28
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fennperetz was doing biochemistry at ucsf and now is sort of wandering aimlessly16:29
fennhe thinks diybio is cute16:30
fennjeez there's like a 50 degree temperature difference between SF night and mountain view day16:43
fenn82 my ass16:44
pmetzgerit depends on where in SF.16:51
pmetzgerAt Fort Point it can be 50F at the same time that it is 90F in the mission...16:52
pmetzgerthe nice thing about the bay area is that you can just pick the weather you prefer and drive there. :)16:52
kanzure***** Singularity, The Zine for Hip Geeks.17:12
kanzureContact: Ron Hale-Evans, 89 Mass Ave. Suite 199, Boston, MA 02115.17:12
kanzurehm17:12
kanzure***** Boing-Boing, The World's greatest neurozine.17:13
kanzureContact: Mark and Carla Frauenfelder Boing-Boing, PO Box 12311, Boulder, Co  80303 mark@well.sf.ca.us.17:13
kanzurePrice: $10/4 issues17:13
kanzureTopics: comix, Cyberpunk, Brain Toys, Rudy Rucker interviews, etc.17:13
kanzureBoingBoing was around back in 1991?17:13
kanzure"Morrall estimates that this FDA regulation saves 68 lives per annum at a17:24
kanzurecost of $132,000,000/life.  Is this a good trade-off?  Morrall cites 1617:24
kanzurecareful studies estimating individual willingness to pay for risk17:24
kanzurereduction.  "The estimates vary from about $400,000 to about $9.7 million17:24
kanzureper life saved, with a mean estimate of $3.3 million and a median estimate17:24
kanzureof $1.7 million." Id at 34.  This indicates that the FDA's regulations17:24
kanzurediverge from individual preferences by a couple of orders of magnitude.  17:24
kanzureThis isn't to say that the FDA hasn't proposed dumber things.  It once17:24
kanzuretried to ban the cosmetic coloring Orange No. 17 to avert a calculated risk17:24
kanzureof death of 1 in 10 billion.  The regulation was projected to save one life17:24
kanzurein 2,000 years. Id at 29.17:24
kanzurehah it was called the Fascist Death Administration17:26
kanzurehah! "line modebrowse release 0.14" "the revolution in web browsing!"17:29
kanzureTHE WEB IS NOW 80 CHARACTERS WIDE!17:30
kanzureactually it's pretty cool to see tim berners-lee on the extropians list17:30
pmetzgerSingularity was important in the history of that mailing list.17:38
pmetzgerSemiotext SF had an ad for The Science Fiction Eye which had an ad for bOING bOING which had an ad for Singularity which had an ad for Extropy.17:38
kanzureoh cool, some people from autodesk were posting17:45
kanzure<robertj@Autodesk.COM17:45
kanzureheh with a quote from drexler in his .sig17:45
kanzurehm he does some fairly good blog posts: http://robjsoftware.org/17:46
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