just signed up. heavens above site is good too http://www.heavens-above.com/

Thanks! That's what I was looking for. Just curious, is this list current, is it intended to be kept up?

Thank you, Alan. That's what I was thinking, and after searching "virtual spec building" I found lots of examples and information. Thanks. Wyatt

And this is mine. Only three legs but vivid and happy. (And faaast) [image: 417081_465376330170084_883026056_n.jpg] Some more photos of her (a friend of mine and her real "fan" keeps taking them) https://www.facebook.com/MalnaKutyaPecs/photos_stream

Very cool, I could see the 'PhantomX' being a fantastic rough ground vehicle/platform. Probably for a weapon unfortunately. Or better, a medevac facility in mountainous terrain. Baz

Beautiful !!! Actually, it works under safari on a mac too. It also works under firefox on a mac. I suppose you all updated java, right?

They actually call it the 720? has anyone got a flake of originality in that company? 720! so obvious! I knew something was on its way because of the current title releases. Too many sequels, no original new games. Last few releases have just felt like complete money spinners, and this season-pass trend is just sickening. The developers have just copied from one another! Each game just feels like a clone of another. Maybe i'm getting old.

That does it. My wife kept showing me stuff and now that we have an iPad I signed up. Now I am rolling my eyes at myself for the amount of time I spent last weekend on Pinterest.

Well done Todd, that's superb stuff, especially with that heat! There's no way on earth I could run in those temperatures. Thankfully, it's never THAT hot over here in the UK. @unknownuser said: All in all - it was a great experience that I don't care to repeat. My feet REALLY hurt! That's the thing, I saif that, but it's bloody addictive!

That's cool

Unfortunately that is all too true. It's so bad that parents bring lawyers to meetings. It's just sad.

Glad you got it to work. I use Civil for site planning work, yes. It's a beast. That's both good and bad. I'd be happy to talk to you about it more if you have specific questions.

Anyone else up for the challenge ? [image: f0y1_BioLitestove1abyEliseiDesign.jpg]

You know I could not place it but now that you mention it Rich, I think you are right.

Yup, its rendering, I'm working on a quick script and for a small task and I need to look up how to work something out in the developers forum. All sorts of good reasons to be on here

@thomthom said: Sceptic... I get the impression that people before was better at dealing with death than we are now. When people lived in died in the same bed - with their whole families. And more people where living outside cities - they also dealt with the death of animals which gave them their food. It's my impression we're more disconnected from dealing with death than before. I agree with you that as modern societies, we do seem more removed from death. I am referring specifically to imagery. I think a comparison would be photos from the battlefields of the US civil war. I would guess at that time, there wasn't much in "media" to compare.

Can't say I didn't warn him.

Thank goodness this was not a close race and the Florida vote being pivotal as this could have been another 2000 election. Very glad Obama won, cannot imagine a world with Romney leading.

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I've been spec'ing a new PC also, just read through this interesting thread. I like the i7 3930(k) sandy bridge with the extra 2 cores, really curious how it stacks up to the Ivy Bridge i7 3770(k) ... in real world testing sketchup, autocad, solidworks, adobe cs suite for photoshop, illustrator, premier pro etc. Benchmarks are nice for baseline, but more interested in real world performance use cases. 3930 has the extra 2 cores 3770 newer 22nm architecture with almost 1/2 the wattage req. 77 vs 130 The Xeon E3-1275 V2 (ivy bridge with IG) is another very tempting processor I am also wondering about the new nVidia 6xx cards esp. 660 to 680 vs. the older 560 to 580. Seems a lot of "render" pro-amateurs point to the 5xx series for the superior floating point processing over the 6xx. Apparently the 570 was getting such good render/viewing in professional software as to tempt professionals from the Quadro/Fire series cards, so nVidia hamstrung the 6xx architecture to only focus on Frames/second. I'd love to see the difference between a 570 vs 670 (with same ram, or highest available ram in both 2.5gb?) Although I am seriously thinking of getting a Quadro 4000 for 3D work. I am painfully familiar with 3D render errors/glitches and CAD parts issues occurring with consumer grade graphic cards. It is fine if you have the time to re-render a scene once, thrice or painfully more or fix and fidget a CAD part to re-appear correctly. The Quadro drivers are pretty tight and can be targeted towards a specific piece of software. (i think sketchUp has it's own specialized drivers, although not 100% sure on that) ECC ram (error correcting code ram) can make for huge savings in time if an error ever corrupts a file (or simply a single part in a CAD project, try hunting that down!) Building a system with these parts should be do-able in the $1400 to $1800 range for good (silent cooling) gear. Any opinions? I'm starting to lean towards a full ECC system, something that gamers of course will not appreciate. Love to hear how your system works for you TomDC!