With our industry's obsession with 3D (and angst over lack of sufficient 3D users), it may come as a surprise to us CAD junkies that some don't see 3D as three dimensional. Overnight, Ask.com changed its user interface to Ask3D:
No, you don't need red and blue glasses to see it. 3D stands for the three dimensions of searching:
- query expression.
- investigating results.
- digging deeply into content.
Sure, whateever. Reminds me of Intergraph's (mis)use of our beloved CAD acronym: computer-aided dispatching. Can't the government do something to stop the abuse?
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Spacetime is a new search engine that pretends to return results in "3D." The visual results, actually, are increasingly smaller images that are slightly overlapped, to create the same persepective illusion that some versions of Vista present.
I tried the software, but didn't find its 10-at-a-time-in-persepctive method superior to Google's 100-at-a-time-in-flat (as I have it set up).
And there's a technical problem with the name: Space-Time is 4D, not 3D.
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