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Comment Wrong assumption in the article (Score 5, Interesting) 83

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

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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