So what you're saying is, you were too lame to even successfully grief people in Second Life? The easiest place ever to do it, with the weakest moderation, where you can even script things yourself? *Dude*.
They don't put a direct value on the L$; they run a currency exchange strictly between users. You can't buy L$ from LL except by getting a premium account, which gives you a small amount of them every month automatically (considerably below the exchange rate for the cost of the account).
They do print the money on the other hand, and they do try to manipulate the exchange rate by doing that, but they don't control it directly.
There are these sort of comments on everything involving There, Second Life, the Sims, WoW, games generally, Myspace, blogs or hell, just the internet, and the same thing applies in each case.
It doesn't matter that you don't get activity X and say it's crap and come up with some sort of pop sociology reason for it. People like it and have fun with it and they don't care that you don't.
If you actually want to know, it might be an idea not to phrase your question as "tell me why you suck", and if you don't, why are you on the internet and not out there getting laid?
Sorry, but this is just rubbish. The amount of effort that goes into an individual creation in SL is never, ever going to be paid by a client, unless they're a corporate one. If I build something for someone and I can count on sales after the fact, I can charge less. A custom job, even a radically underpriced one, would be far beyond what people are willing to pay.
All that removal of IP rights means is that people only do things for equivalent services in-world, and new people are entirely frozen out, it just becomes a bunch of experienced creators doing favours for each other since there's nothing newbies can do for them.
"Brainiacs" on Sky went better than that - they did a piece where they submitted various removable storage devices to all sorts of abuse, including, at the end, firing them out of a cannon at a wall. IIRC the SD card, even when it was pretty much blown in half by the cannon, could still be read, though admittedly it needed a lab to do so.
Despite all their great ideas, futurism etc, Asimov and Clarke weren't exactly good writers. Their characters are flat and exist to push the plot forward and get the freaky science in there. Gibson's characters and world are central, rather than just being window-dressing.
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So what you're saying is, you were too lame to even successfully grief people in Second Life? The easiest place ever to do it, with the weakest moderation, where you can even script things yourself? *Dude*.
They don't put a direct value on the L$; they run a currency exchange strictly between users. You can't buy L$ from LL except by getting a premium account, which gives you a small amount of them every month automatically (considerably below the exchange rate for the cost of the account). They do print the money on the other hand, and they do try to manipulate the exchange rate by doing that, but they don't control it directly.
There are these sort of comments on everything involving There, Second Life, the Sims, WoW, games generally, Myspace, blogs or hell, just the internet, and the same thing applies in each case.
It doesn't matter that you don't get activity X and say it's crap and come up with some sort of pop sociology reason for it. People like it and have fun with it and they don't care that you don't.
If you actually want to know, it might be an idea not to phrase your question as "tell me why you suck", and if you don't, why are you on the internet and not out there getting laid?
Sorry, but this is just rubbish. The amount of effort that goes into an individual creation in SL is never, ever going to be paid by a client, unless they're a corporate one. If I build something for someone and I can count on sales after the fact, I can charge less. A custom job, even a radically underpriced one, would be far beyond what people are willing to pay.
All that removal of IP rights means is that people only do things for equivalent services in-world, and new people are entirely frozen out, it just becomes a bunch of experienced creators doing favours for each other since there's nothing newbies can do for them.
"Brainiacs" on Sky went better than that - they did a piece where they submitted various removable storage devices to all sorts of abuse, including, at the end, firing them out of a cannon at a wall. IIRC the SD card, even when it was pretty much blown in half by the cannon, could still be read, though admittedly it needed a lab to do so.
Nobody ever thinks they're the bad guy.
There are at least a hundred or so avatars with the first name "Hiro" there.
They just got $11 million in venture capital, so they're not going out of business soon.
Many parts of the Constitution make reference to "persons", but not citizens.
Except that many of the articles and amendments make no reference to "citizenship".
If you don't like it, go back to Russia!
Despite all their great ideas, futurism etc, Asimov and Clarke weren't exactly good writers. Their characters are flat and exist to push the plot forward and get the freaky science in there. Gibson's characters and world are central, rather than just being window-dressing.