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The first group, "day labororers",

AKA "people with healthy lifestyles"

tend to send emails throughout the normal working day between 0900 and 1800 but not at other times. On the other hand, "emailaholics"

AKA the disabled and the "couch potatoes"

tend to send emails throughout the waking hours from 0900 to 0100.

Fight Morbid Obesity

gaah. this is the sort of drivel that managers beat over and looks good in slideshows.

this smacks of first life... http://www.getafirstlife.com/

at the end of the day I can see the appeal of virtual models of real events, for example
1. police officers using stereoscopic cameras to build a very, very detailed model of the crime scene that can be explored later on or shown to a jury
2. virtual walk through of museums, natural wonders or education exhibits

but shopping and other mundane aspects of life? the obvious comment is that it will waste power, take longer and never be as satisfying as the real thing.

that said, if you can build me a holodeck then I am pretty sure I will never leave it, nothing could be as important as the simulated Monica Belluci and her simulated identical sisters.

What a load of crap. Sorry, but that my view point.

Its like reality TV, why would my daily business be sitting in an armchair watching other people go about their daily business?

I really do not understand why they think people are interested, surely the failure of second life should be an indicator here. The other poster with his comment about sitting in a basement spending your time vitually plastering the virtual walls in your virtual house in your virtual world nailed it perfectly.

This satirical take on virtual worlds was spot on if you ask me...

http://www.getafirstlife.com/

It makes for excellent parodies, though

First Life

Get a first life!

Get a first life.

That kind of activity isn't to be tolerated in any community, online or not - whether 'really tolerated' or virtually :P

Considering that this is that third thing you forgot to mention, called trademarks, it really isn't too unreasonable. In order to keep their trademarks, they have to defend them rigorously. If they stood back and did nothing, they are putting themselves at risk. This is the same reason Adobe's official stance is don't say "I photoshopped that image", but "I enhanced that image using Adobe Photoshop." I am sure they love that their product is a verb, but they can't officially advocate it.

The part that is unreasonable is how they shut down making the car calander. They could have, perhaps, sent a letter telling them about the legal situation and granting them permission, right there in the letter, to go ahead.

I couldn't find a link for this, but I remember reading about an incident with Get A First Life getting a letter from Linden Labs. Linden Labs told them about a trademark issue with the Get A First Life website, and in the same letter granted them permission to go ahead and use it. The letter was their rigorous defense of their trademark, but the defense didn't require shutting anyone down. Yeah, Linden Labs is pretty cool, I guess (even though I hate Second Life).

IANAL, btw.

http://www.getafirstlife.com/

So if you lose your money there, whether through a bug or through fraud, you're screwed. Also since the "country of second life" is not part any one country or the U.N., there are no federal or international laws applicable in the word of second life. This is the problem with virtual property.

Technically money is virtual as well since the little pieces of paper you carry around are technically worthless, but at least paper money is backed by the Government which has rules protecting you from theft. That's why First Life is better than Second Life.

You are probably thinking of:

http://www.getafirstlife.com/
http://secondlife.com/

As another replier says, parody is protected, but LL could have made some trouble for this guy regardless. Instead, they displayed a sense of humour and a piece of good PR.

If you don't like Second Life, try this site instead.

How about we forgo that and go strait to a first life

Yes, I'm totally down with the sentiments at http://www.getafirstlife.com/. There is no need for a second life if you've already got a first one.

But then I stop and think for a second, and I realize that Second Life in general, and events like this in particular, and the attention they get, are good things for a specific reason. Most people don't have the vaguest notion how their first life actually works. Getting in on the ground floor of a micro-society that would like to mirror all the stuff its external macro-society has, but has to start from scratch, is incredibly educational.

The gambling ban is one example. Put aside the obvious explanation of conflicts with real-world anti-gambling laws for a moment, and assume that the inherent untrustability of player-run gaming is reason enough. Follow that through, and you realize that the problem could be mostly fixed with a regulatory program of standards, inspections, and certifications. Surprise, surprise: That's exactly what the Nevada Gaming Commission does.

The bank run is an even better example. Someone who takes their real-world bank account for granted may not realize that putting their money into the hands of a stranger with the promise that they can walk up to an ATM and take it back out any time is any riskier. When there's a run and the demand for withdrawals far exceeds funds available, they may realize that their deposits were completely at risk because there was no trusted body that could guarantee that they would keep an eye on the institution's behavior and back them up if they were unable to keep their promises. Guess what: That's the FDIC.

If anyone comes away from Second Life with a little more appreciation for the ways that even the most flawed government allows its constituents to live safer and easier, then I don't hate it. Say what you want about the furries who populate it; it's still an interesting social experiment, and I'm curious to see how closely its development of these kinds of infrastructures will parallel the history the real world. Perhaps people will seize this opportunity for new and creative solutions to well-known problems.

With all these bogeymen, 2nd Life is looking more and more like First Life all the time.

The challenge is making a game where everyone can "start a merchant empire, overthrow a king, or build a village". It's easy to do in single player games, but far more difficult when you've got millions of players. Here is the only one that comes close and the graphics are far better than Tabula Rasa. But even in that one, players complain that the outcomes are heavily influenced by the starting conditions.

You can't please everyone.

http://getafirstlife.com/

Total Residents: 6,553,628,382
Born Today: 364,936
Died Today: 152,029
Pants Purchased: 27,021
TV Hours Watched: 82,124,102,305

Why the hell is this guy suing over the IP rights to a virtual sex toy in a virtual world? Get a life!

It never, EVER fails to amuse me when someone on /. says this...

"It has been mentioned before many times on slashdot but it always remains worth repeating go: http://www.getafirstlife.com/"

for 15 minutes of server time (minus their own bandwith of course).

What would really be news about 2ndL would be if anything remotely interesting every occurred there other than the opportunity to fulfil Andy Warhol's prediction.

2ndL has reached critical popular media mass and is now the bench mark for any pile of crap broadcast or written about a group of idiosyncratic individuals.

Imagine, if you can, way back in the pre-digital era, what you would have thought if someone claimed to be living a "second life" in the Monopoly Board World where you had your own wee little car and a silver shoe.

There's a lot more rubbish to be written about 2ndL - when it is involved in murder or is discovered to be a conduit for drugs or when something so unbelievable happens that the word "Circus" will not be strong enough. It hasn't happened yet, but it will.
It has been mentioned before many times on slashdot but it always remains worth repeating go: http://www.getafirstlife.com/

Maybe you should get a first life?

Actually he meant "Virtually Disgusting Virtual Pig".

As for this virtual rape. How do you even do that? (note I'm no longer a 2nd life user since I visited http://www.getafirstlife.com/ ).

Here's an idea http://www.getafirstlife.com/

If you have time to play the matrix within the matrix, like the NES games inside Animal Crossing Population Growing for GameCube, then you probably need to get a first life.

http://www.getafirstlife.com/

Get a First Life

Call this post redundant if you like, but some things clearly bear repeating...especially to people dumping fortunes on something with a completely imagined value.

Influential? Maybe to clueless reporters in desperate need to fill airtime or page space. Second Life has maybe 650,000 real people logging in and tuning out of First Life. I can't think of one concept, product, idea or candidate the Second Life community has successfully promoted to myself, friends or coworkers (a fairly "wired" bunch). If internet savvy Edwards supporters want to assist his campaign, maybe they suggest that John paint a giant campaign sign on his 28,200 sq foot new home on 102 acres in North Carolina so it can be photographed for Google Earth. I am sure one of the two Americas will appreciate that...

Black leather lounge suite, but thanx for playing.

It's kinda hard to concentrate on typing and still get the subtitles of "The Seven Samurai", but I do what I can.

In the mean time, try this: http://www.getafirstlife.com/

At first I though "disabilities" referred to mental state, etc. that came about from poor allocation of character points and experience points in First Life. However, the article talks mostly about physically handicapped players, for which there is a simple fix. If you've taken on too much damage in First Life, just start playing Second Life. I've heard that if you select your initial character type as "cat", you can repeat the procedure all the way up to Ninth Life.

Why don't people try getting a first life?

Check this out, quite funny.