Publicly unveiled in late March, OnLive bills itself as “the world’s highest performance Games on Demand service.”  They purportedly have the technology to stream games, including the latest high-end game titles (such as Crysis Warhead and BioShock) to broadband users.  (For a full list of supported games, click here.)
The service will run through the OnLive Microconsole and play on a user’s TV, or can be run directly on a Mac or PC.  The founder, Steve Perlman (of WebTV and Apple’s QuickTime), says, “The first patents expire in 2022, so …

At this year’s SolidWorks World 2009 conference, I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. William Doll, Director of SolidWorks Labs.
After talking with Bill there and later through email concerning another article, I wished to learn a little more about SolidWorks Labs and share it with you. Bill graciously agreed to an email interview, and I learned a lot. I hope you find it informative!
CADFanatic: Hi Bill, it was great meeting you in Orlando at SolidWorks World 2009. Thanks for agreeing to do this interview.
Bill Doll: Hi Brian, it was a pleasure …

Have you moved to SolidWorks 2009 yet?  If you haven’t, and need a good reason to do so, then continue reading!

SolidWorks touts the maximum time savings of moving from SolidWorks 2008 to SolidWorks 2009 as 65%.  Is it true?
Well, I have not done any quantitative testing, but I can say that it definitely feels much faster to me; especially in larger assemblies and more complicated parts.  However, a user from our user group did a not-so-scientific test with a representative set of production files, and the results were amazing!
THE TEST
The …