This is our chance...to bring Autodesk to their knees...

[ares997]

We have a very short window in time and space, and now we have more than enough ammunition to take down goliath. If you think about it...David brought down the giant with technology. It wasn't because he was necessarily smaller than the giant, but more inventive, better long reaching technology, an eye for understanding the means and methods for getting the job done in his current market. That is what Graphisoft has gave us yesterday, though it might not be in our hot little hands. We the Archicad Marines need to start making some frakin' noise out their.

This is the point at which we can sit in our cubicles and say, umm I'm not really sure if it is what I think it is...when it is more than you could have ever dream of.

Ironically enough Autodesk yesterday started to buckle, as well as said that they would be offering inventor as a free download, "no kidding."

Come on guys there should be at least a blog each from all you loyalist who have been here since the beginning. This is our house now go out and take the gorilla by the balls to take him out.

Even with AC12 and AC11 we were still way ahead of the curve and have always been, now let's start sending info to WIRED.COM, ENGADET.COM , USA TODAY, CNN, ETC. Graphisoft has put a lot into this release. Testing it throughly, making sure it works with Snow Leopard (which is why they delayed the release until yesterday, considering Snow Leopard was on Friday so that gives GS 30+ days to get it ready for the MAC kids out there.)

The Graphisoft Team has not only change the rules about what can be done in a yearly release cycle, they have change what will the future be for us.

Graphisoft's "biggest not-so-secret weapon is its staff of developers [who] focus enormous talent on a niche, which Westerners can't match."
Jonathan B. Levine, Business Week, USA

"It's passion, and a good deal of business sense, that helped turn Graphisoft into a global player."
The Wall Street Journal

We are a team based all over the world and need to act like one more now then ever.

This has happened a few times before
1. The cpu and drafting in a machine
2. Going 3d
3. Going Parametric + GDL
4. Going BIM
5. Going in with the DELTA SERVER

If you can imagine what this could mean even outside this industry it is far reaching.

Get out there and make some noise.

Please don't hesitate. We need to start scaring the investors of AUTODESK today and now we have our $5k keys ringing in their ears.

We have ECO designer, we have VBE, we have MEP, our company, our team has brought us the weapons within this year that dominates all other products out there.

Pull your fingers out of your ears and start emailing, witting blogs, witting your congressmen, telling your friends, telling your enemies that we are coming for them one seat at a time.

[Erika Epstein]

Dwight wrote:
It is so hard to accept that people with more experience than you actually know more, isn't it?

That ain't just the Arlantis Attitude.

[ares997]

No it isn't too hard to accept that there are people with more experience and knowledge from which I can gain some insight, especially you Dwight.

Though at precisely 11am (Sept. 1, 2009) GS went live with the new website and ac13 announcement, that is the same time that ADSK stock feel (exactly the same time). Coincidence maybe, though I think not. That is just my opinion based on observation of the stock and the relationship that it potentially makes with the GS site and AC13. Is that too much of stretch, that the site went live, the stock fell a little bit??? Is it also too much to think that investors see a relationship between GS and Autodesk? Too what level they consider the two in the same ring is beyond me.

But yes Dwight I enjoy learning from the wise and gaining information that can be used in production and propaganda...

[Dwight]

So, like, a bunch of pension fund managers were sitting around waiting for an announcement from Graphisoft, immediately understood it, and thought:

"This obscure company has finally fixed their teamwork feature to work like it always should have, so now Autodesk is done solid out the wazoo, lets dump that crappy stock and buy Starbucks!"

It wouldn't be that the construction sector is weak, or that numerous, far-reaching announcements occurring on August 31 like, for instance, this:

bad construction sector news

would have a sector impact the next business day.

Wake up.

[Anonymous]

Correlation is not causation.

[Dennis Lee]

This thread bugs me a lot.

[Dwight]

That's true.
Even the thread's subject is delusional.

[ares997]

Alright all I am pointing out is on 1st os last month at 1100 adsk stock fell for whatever reason then rose up and feel a few weeks later.

GS is a great company with a monumental release the likes of which are scarcely similar to that of any other in our careers. The changes directly improve on the fundamentals which state that "performanr demands effiecncy".

I know for a fact the ac13 has no comparrison. The improvements have allowed us to do what has never been done easily or quickly at out finger tips. We can now seamlessly be the hub of bim projects where projects are more closely built in one file.

Though we all appreciate the changes in different ways. I especially enjoy 64 bit. And I have only wanted is to express the idea in this thread that you and the rest of the talkers now have the abilty to wrangle more of your tools and your leverage the competition whether that is a office of autocad civil engineers on the fence about bim or a client. That is your choice but the "game has changed.". Our roles as technical architects will provide us far reaching abilities solely because of a single release!

[Dwight]

ares997 wrote:
Alright all I am pointing out is on 1st os last month at 1100 adsk stock fell for whatever reason then rose up and feel a few weeks later.

After a heavy night of drinking, someone sees a pre-dawn twinkle in the sky while rising to relieve himself. He get excited and pulls out the videocam and turns the 40x digital zoom on full so the image transfixes him with magnificent atmospheric aberrations of red, green and blue, and he calls the UFOBC Hotline to report an alien craft.

As an experienced UFO investigator, I visit the guy and see his video, knowing full well that what he saw at 4 AM was the planet Venus [world's number one UFO, just ahead of oncoming aircraft landing lights seen from far away]. I let the guy talk: "mother ship… bay doors opening… lookit them colors… see them waving at me… Hoolee!"

So naturally, the guy wants to save face after I show the star chart and he says "We can't be sure. They could come again, dang it."

Now, you don't want to challenge a UFO sighter too directly since it jeopardizes a source of wacky stories and risks assault. Challenge a saucer nut by asking for evidence or simple facts, even, and you risk banishment: "Infidel! Get out of my double-wide and don't come back!"

But you, since youall are down in Texas, I can challenge.

Without a shred of evidence or science, earlier today you said:

" If Archicad isn't a threat to Autodesk and their market share than I must be confused…

Yes Autodesk is affected by Graphisoft and yes the stock has been stifled during the release of information regarding AC13…

Does it upset you that Archicad might be able to shake the tree a little. Or do you actually believe that the software and the company that you support isn't able to affect the 600 lb gorilla? "

The only conclusion from this statement is: earlier you believed that the Archicad release caused the Autodesk stock price dip and not for "whatever reason" as you state now.

EOM

For Dwight's wacky UFO interview downloads:

black helicopters


a man with a worm in his leg

woman converses with Pleiadians

guy is a poltergeist

Estelle explains the Raelian Embassy project

And a real kicker: 90 Mb download, a 12 minute documentary on a man missing three hours:

Three Missing Hours

[ares997]

I was thinking more along these lines http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/quantum-entanglement/ good thing I don't drink or I might have seen little green men.

[Anonymous]

Finally, this thread is coming to its senses