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Comment Automotive companies don't make cars (Score 1) 240

In my first computery job, I worked at the company that made the majority of resistance (spot) welding transformers for the 'big three'. Heavy, greasy 80lb blocks of water-cooled copper and aluminum.
Stanley VanAntwerp, their wise and eccentric head of engineering and design told me this:

Ford, GM, and Chrysler don't make cars. They make factories. That's the product.
The line, the dies, the welding fixtures, the service parts, all of that, for the required years in service.
That's the hard part. That's the automotive industry.

Stan also told me "An engineer with a closed mind is useless".

Comment There's a better way to do this (Score 1) 28

Instead of prompt-building a world, use Second Life as the modeler.

It has a camera, geometry, and metadata to model off of, and tons of source world already built.
The hard parts; hosting, navigation, scripting, network, and money are already implemented.
Best, there's an experienced user community that gets it, and is willing to pay for it.

Comment Re:Who does this? (Score 1) 89

They did that at Otellini's Intel in Chandler AZ when I was there around 2009 or so.

The round foam couches and glass cubes, 70's colors, and a new age relaxation room with two massage chairs (really).
A game room with a big flat panel on the wall hooked up to a Wii as a bro detector, mostly used by the sales weasels. It always smelled in there.

Sitting in the middle of the floor, with no walls, was this massive Cisco teleconferencing system built into a curved wood veneer conference table with multiple 1080p video projectors and cameras. Had its own fiber line. 'Like being there' they said. The demo broke and I never saw it used after. But free candy bars in baskets and drinks in the fridge!

The 'project' took up an entire floor. (They mercifully kept the Intel OCC bike close, but downstairs.)

Intel is always playing copy-to-catch-up, and I think this was their attempt at being a Google.
By the time it all got thrown in the dumpster out back, I was gone.

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