Desktops do benefit from a RTOS. RT makes it so that the system purposefully downgrades less-useful things like buggy apps that go into infinite loops for maximum priority things like, say, user input.
Excuse me? You want to write your own scripts? Everyone can write scripts, all you need to do is click on the New Script button:) As for taking data from various sources, well, Second Life supports HTTP, XML-RPC and Email communications with external servers. You are welcome to bypass the "social experiment" as you term it. God knows there is no shortage of corporations developing project for other corporations in Second Life.
Since when does Linux require any training? It's not any different from Windows. You must be used to dealing with megacorps where unionized people refuse to do anything outside their job specification and there's lots of money to spend on frivolous "training" courses, which are usually just an excuse not to be at the office and work. Training? What training? How about "If you're too dumb to work with what we give you then RTFM on your own time or we'll find someone with a bit more initiative"? My non-technical girlfriend installed Mandrake Linux on her own as far back as 2001, simply because she liked the cool wallpapers, screensavers and minigames she saw on my computer...
You've just described capitalism. Is there a magical kingdom I can move to where the little guy is never screwed over by layer upon layer of corporate sharks?:D People don't buy stuff in SL to get an ROI. They do it to be entertained, have a pretty avatar, a pretty house... disposable income. As long as some people have a need to create and others have a need for entertainment, stuff like SL will succeed.
Nobody forces you to listen to the stream. Streams in Second Life work on a per-parcel basis. Meaning, if you're on someone's land, you get to listen to the music they chose. If you're on your land, you get to listen to whatever you choose. In addition, streamed music is off by default, so when you're flying around you won't switch from stream to stream all the time.
I'm Eggy Lippmann in Second Life and I worked on this project, having made the pretty radio you see in that blog, among other things. I can tell you one thing - BBC Radio 1 is only streamed in WMA and RAM. Second Life supports inworld audio and video streaming, but not in these formats. You can set an URL as a property of a land parcel, and people on that parcel will get the URL from the server to stream from it on the client side... but it will only read MP3 and OGG streams. The way I got around this was by launching the user's browser... which is a horrible hack, but it was the only way.
I'm not an MD, but what's likely going on is that you're building some odd muscle or two in that area. Muscles play an important structural role in your body - they're actually holding you together, just like your skeleton does. This structural role is often negated in skinny people who lack enough lean mass, as well as people with an excessive body fat ratio. So bulk up, people, or you'll be at an increased risk of sprains, back pains, etc.
Thank you so much for the redesign. That old green was sure ugly! Pink is like, the new, uh, pink! I 3 pink! Now, where are these ponies!!! Give me ponies. Now.
Try building sand castles. I was born and live in a tourist trap, and I don't think I could ever get tired of creating elaborate sand sculptures. If you can get a friend or two to help out, you can build some pretty impressive stuff in an afternoon. Great exercise too!
This isn't true anymore, you can already build great UIs with the new HUD attachment point. You attach an object to "HUD" instead of your arm or leg, it's only visible to you. Guy I know is even building his own window manager. When were you last on? Animations abound everywhere, and if you think Poser's hard to figure out, maybe you should just hire someone. That's usually how things get done in SL - as a team. Great way to network.
They don't seem fishy to me. You need to realize that a lot of people actually LIVE off of their SL business, or at least derive a non-trivial amount of money from it. It's sort of like a new 3D web, or a 3D ebay or something... some people are starting to make RL corporations just for SL-related work.
Yes, it has been said that LambdaMOO is the grandaddy of Second Life. I believe its creator has even visited Linden Lab's office recently! I've never been to any of those crafty sort of MUDs... only action-oriented and roleplay-oriented. How powerful is the language there? SL is any geek's wet dream. You can freaking code your own TCP/IP stack over SL comms, or your own RPC platform, or your own For a distributed systems geek like me, it's the ideal place, since programming in SL is inherently distributed. Plus you can make money off your skills if you're in college or between jobs... I spent last summer coding a distributed, fault-tolerant, banking/e-commerce system, tied into a MySQL database with a website that had quizzes and stuff, and the website quizzes messaged the game world over XML-RPC where 3D ATMs paid you game money. It's nothing to be sneezed at, and in fact Linden Lab has been promoting the "platform" aspect a lot more lately. Definitely not just a "game".
This post is slightly misleading. May I ask what is your name in SL? Did you join in 2004 or later? Second Life has always had P2P teleportation. It was certainly there when Beta started in 2002, and even after telehubs arrived, you could still offer someone a teleport and they would bypass the hub system, instantly arriving at your location. I run a second life history wiki: http://history.secondserver.org/ If you like it and decide to join SL, feel free to use my referral link, and I will gladly give you the referral money and help you get started.
If you only have mild/seasonal depression, my personal opinion is that chemicals would probably do you more harm than good. Studies have shown that living a healthy lifestyle decreases your likeliness of getting depressed even if you are naturally prone to depression. It may be a chemical imbalance, but your body can easily be teased into manufacturing more of the chemicals you need to stay mentally balanced. Exercise often, even if you are already within your normal BMI, get plenty of sunlight, keep a normal sleep pattern and force yourself to be more social. My personal experience has been very positive, but of course YMMV, and if your condition worsens or fails to improve SEE A DOCTOR.
It's easy to do, I pop off my keys every now and then to clean them, and I'm sure at least the alphanumeric keys would fit in with each other regardless of how I order them. Plus there are DVORAK keyboard mappings for every OS I know.
Age does not necessarily make you a non-technical person, disabled, or a retard. My grandfather died at 82 and was pretty much indistinguishable from a 50 or 60 or 70 year old. Very smart and healthy person, who kept a sharp, clear mind until the end. My grandmother, who is still alive, is not a terribly healthy person but she worked with computers and I'm sure she is still quite capable of handling them. In fact, we often toy with the idea of getting her one. She spends her days painting dishes and making beautiful paintings that she has even had displayed and sold, and also reads novels, does crossword puzzles and all sorts of things.
You can do that in Second Life. It's very easy to script, say, a grenade, so that when it explodes the land is dented underneath it. If you use my referral link I will get some extra linden dollars which I can then pass on to you. http://secondlife.com/ss/?u=e64b39e515cccfd795ada5 5d4a0f8bc3
With CPU development practically stagnating, but RAM and HD storage still growing fast, it also strikes me as a pretty good solution. I wouldn't want to instance that CPU-hogging old JPEG algorithm 50 times just because I hit the back button. There's always a tradeoff between memory use and CPU comsumption. If it's simple to do and has enough impact, maybe they should let the users decide? Or even automatically configure it depending on the user's hardware.
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Your post is what serious researchers call "anecdotal evidence", which is grounds for immediate dismissal (see also: correlation != causation). Studies suggest that, ON AVERAGE, smokers have a greater likelihood of contracting some rather serious illnesses than non-smokers. This does not mean that EVERY smoker will contract illnesses. My grandfather was also a heavy smoker who lived happily until the ripe age of 82, and he didnt die of anything related to smoking. Some people are stronger than others. Some people can probably tolerate all sorts of toxins a lot better. For all we know, there may even be a gene that causes immunity to tobacco and related toxins. The fact remains that anectdotal evidence, while interesting, isn't the same as controlled research, and doesn't detract from it in any way.
Screw science, I'd say it's a pretty damn good idea to move the pollution outside the cities, possibly even to third world countries. I have a freaking bus stop right beneath my window, everything gets covered in soot on a regular basis, and I can imagine my lungs aren't exactly getting squeaky clean in the process.
I wish people would stop touting that stupid coral cache as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. The article link worked fine. Coral cache took forever to load and then gave me an error:
Error decoding translated text.
We're sorry we've encountered an error with your request. If you think this is a bug we should know about send us e-mail and let us know the following:
* What browser you were using. * The operating system you are on. * The type of translation you were trying when this error occurred.
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Desktops do benefit from a RTOS. RT makes it so that the system purposefully downgrades less-useful things like buggy apps that go into infinite loops for maximum priority things like, say, user input.
Excuse me? You want to write your own scripts? Everyone can write scripts, all you need to do is click on the New Script button :)
As for taking data from various sources, well, Second Life supports HTTP, XML-RPC and Email communications with external servers.
You are welcome to bypass the "social experiment" as you term it. God knows there is no shortage of corporations developing project for other corporations in Second Life.
Since when does Linux require any training? It's not any different from Windows. You must be used to dealing with megacorps where unionized people refuse to do anything outside their job specification and there's lots of money to spend on frivolous "training" courses, which are usually just an excuse not to be at the office and work.
Training? What training? How about "If you're too dumb to work with what we give you then RTFM on your own time or we'll find someone with a bit more initiative"?
My non-technical girlfriend installed Mandrake Linux on her own as far back as 2001, simply because she liked the cool wallpapers, screensavers and minigames she saw on my computer...
You've just described capitalism. Is there a magical kingdom I can move to where the little guy is never screwed over by layer upon layer of corporate sharks? :D
People don't buy stuff in SL to get an ROI. They do it to be entertained, have a pretty avatar, a pretty house... disposable income.
As long as some people have a need to create and others have a need for entertainment, stuff like SL will succeed.
Nobody forces you to listen to the stream. Streams in Second Life work on a per-parcel basis. Meaning, if you're on someone's land, you get to listen to the music they chose. If you're on your land, you get to listen to whatever you choose. In addition, streamed music is off by default, so when you're flying around you won't switch from stream to stream all the time.
I'm Eggy Lippmann in Second Life and I worked on this project, having made the pretty radio you see in that blog, among other things.
I can tell you one thing - BBC Radio 1 is only streamed in WMA and RAM.
Second Life supports inworld audio and video streaming, but not in these formats.
You can set an URL as a property of a land parcel, and people on that parcel will get the URL from the server to stream from it on the client side... but it will only read MP3 and OGG streams.
The way I got around this was by launching the user's browser... which is a horrible hack, but it was the only way.
I'm not an MD, but what's likely going on is that you're building some odd muscle or two in that area. Muscles play an important structural role in your body - they're actually holding you together, just like your skeleton does.
This structural role is often negated in skinny people who lack enough lean mass, as well as people with an excessive body fat ratio.
So bulk up, people, or you'll be at an increased risk of sprains, back pains, etc.
Thank you so much for the redesign. That old green was sure ugly!
Pink is like, the new, uh, pink!
I 3 pink!
Now, where are these ponies!!! Give me ponies. Now.
deBeers anyone? :P
Just sit on it and sell slowly over time.
Try building sand castles. I was born and live in a tourist trap, and I don't think I could ever get tired of creating elaborate sand sculptures. If you can get a friend or two to help out, you can build some pretty impressive stuff in an afternoon. Great exercise too!
This isn't true anymore, you can already build great UIs with the new HUD attachment point. You attach an object to "HUD" instead of your arm or leg, it's only visible to you. Guy I know is even building his own window manager.
When were you last on? Animations abound everywhere, and if you think Poser's hard to figure out, maybe you should just hire someone. That's usually how things get done in SL - as a team. Great way to network.
They don't seem fishy to me. You need to realize that a lot of people actually LIVE off of their SL business, or at least derive a non-trivial amount of money from it. It's sort of like a new 3D web, or a 3D ebay or something... some people are starting to make RL corporations just for SL-related work.
Yes, it has been said that LambdaMOO is the grandaddy of Second Life. I believe its creator has even visited Linden Lab's office recently!
I've never been to any of those crafty sort of MUDs... only action-oriented and roleplay-oriented. How powerful is the language there?
SL is any geek's wet dream. You can freaking code your own TCP/IP stack over SL comms, or your own RPC platform, or your own
For a distributed systems geek like me, it's the ideal place, since programming in SL is inherently distributed. Plus you can make money off your skills if you're in college or between jobs...
I spent last summer coding a distributed, fault-tolerant, banking/e-commerce system, tied into a MySQL database with a website that had quizzes and stuff, and the website quizzes messaged the game world over XML-RPC where 3D ATMs paid you game money. It's nothing to be sneezed at, and in fact Linden Lab has been promoting the "platform" aspect a lot more lately. Definitely not just a "game".
Ack, sorry, it's http://history.secondserver.net/ :(
This post is slightly misleading. May I ask what is your name in SL? Did you join in 2004 or later?
Second Life has always had P2P teleportation. It was certainly there when Beta started in 2002, and even after telehubs arrived, you could still offer someone a teleport and they would bypass the hub system, instantly arriving at your location.
I run a second life history wiki: http://history.secondserver.org/
If you like it and decide to join SL, feel free to use my referral link, and I will gladly give you the referral money and help you get started.
If you only have mild/seasonal depression, my personal opinion is that chemicals would probably do you more harm than good.
Studies have shown that living a healthy lifestyle decreases your likeliness of getting depressed even if you are naturally prone to depression. It may be a chemical imbalance, but your body can easily be teased into manufacturing more of the chemicals you need to stay mentally balanced. Exercise often, even if you are already within your normal BMI, get plenty of sunlight, keep a normal sleep pattern and force yourself to be more social. My personal experience has been very positive, but of course YMMV, and if your condition worsens or fails to improve SEE A DOCTOR.
It's easy to do, I pop off my keys every now and then to clean them, and I'm sure at least the alphanumeric keys would fit in with each other regardless of how I order them. Plus there are DVORAK keyboard mappings for every OS I know.
Age does not necessarily make you a non-technical person, disabled, or a retard.
My grandfather died at 82 and was pretty much indistinguishable from a 50 or 60 or 70 year old. Very smart and healthy person, who kept a sharp, clear mind until the end. My grandmother, who is still alive, is not a terribly healthy person but she worked with computers and I'm sure she is still quite capable of handling them. In fact, we often toy with the idea of getting her one. She spends her days painting dishes and making beautiful paintings that she has even had displayed and sold, and also reads novels, does crossword puzzles and all sorts of things.
You can do that in Second Life. It's very easy to script, say, a grenade, so that when it explodes the land is dented underneath it.5 5d4a0f8bc3
If you use my referral link I will get some extra linden dollars which I can then pass on to you.
http://secondlife.com/ss/?u=e64b39e515cccfd795ada
With CPU development practically stagnating, but RAM and HD storage still growing fast, it also strikes me as a pretty good solution. I wouldn't want to instance that CPU-hogging old JPEG algorithm 50 times just because I hit the back button.
There's always a tradeoff between memory use and CPU comsumption. If it's simple to do and has enough impact, maybe they should let the users decide?
Or even automatically configure it depending on the user's hardware.
Your post is what serious researchers call "anecdotal evidence", which is grounds for immediate dismissal (see also: correlation != causation). Studies suggest that, ON AVERAGE, smokers have a greater likelihood of contracting some rather serious illnesses than non-smokers. This does not mean that EVERY smoker will contract illnesses. My grandfather was also a heavy smoker who lived happily until the ripe age of 82, and he didnt die of anything related to smoking.
Some people are stronger than others. Some people can probably tolerate all sorts of toxins a lot better. For all we know, there may even be a gene that causes immunity to tobacco and related toxins. The fact remains that anectdotal evidence, while interesting, isn't the same as controlled research, and doesn't detract from it in any way.
Then you've never met a GOOD manager :)
Screw science, I'd say it's a pretty damn good idea to move the pollution outside the cities, possibly even to third world countries. I have a freaking bus stop right beneath my window, everything gets covered in soot on a regular basis, and I can imagine my lungs aren't exactly getting squeaky clean in the process.
a dog? :)
LOL!
I wish people would stop touting that stupid coral cache as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. The article link worked fine. Coral cache took forever to load and then gave me an error:
Error decoding translated text.
We're sorry we've encountered an error with your request.
If you think this is a bug we should know about send us e-mail and let us know the following:
* What browser you were using.
* The operating system you are on.
* The type of translation you were trying when this error occurred.
The error encountered is: 157