laszlonagy wrote:
whatever wrote:
laszlonagy wrote:
He is probably referring to cloud-based solutions that are starting to appear from various big-name developers.
to be honest that scares the **** out of me ! I should start praying AC15 will not be about that ...and only about that !
A lot of people, mostly users, including me, are not very enthusiastic about that. The big question is for me: will they try to use the cloud to tighten control over users? We will see.
"Not very enthusiastic"? That's putting it mildly. As you so succinctly and politely do.
"Control over users" That's what has to be fought hard, and early on.
This could well be a 5-20 yr struggle which we are only seeing the very, very thin ghost outline of at the moment.
But even cloud for rendering may be archaic.
Case in point, the well known every expanding power of "desktops".
General Electric learned a version of this the hard way over 20 yrs ago
in Silicon Valley when they bought Calma with room after room after room of massive main frame computers to generate CAD drawings, and not even close to what is done today by mid power desktops,(as we all very well know).
I was involved in the clean up of that mess as a contractor.
Calma was bought with the idea that CAD would be driven by HUGE main frames. Circ. 1985ish. By 1989 it was realized that desktops were exploding onto the scene.
Fast forward some yrs and what will be on Architects/others desktops in 5-20yrs?
Maxwell quality renderings clocking in a 5-20 seconds????
lec
