I'm reading people complain about 200 mb memory leaks. My Safari usually eats up 800, 900 megabytes of RAM even after just starting up. I'm running SALR but still.
Is it normal that at startup my powerbook has over a gig of virtual memory?
I agree. I read his book and I don't agree with everything he says. However, at this point I would say I value his judgment more than I value the experience of others.
It's also worth noting that, in addition to things like 1 million strong for Barack, his team has set up it's own social networking site where Obama supporters can share photos, messages, groups, fundraising, and events.
Dean ushered in Internet fundraising in 2004. Could Obama harness social networking?
You'd think that, but when there isn't an obvious opportunity for good PR, Linden Lab is even more proactive in chilling efforts. This article details how they sent a frantic letter to the CBC to keep a critic from speaking out on a radio show. Not that you'd ever know it from the mainstream media's lack of coverage.
1. 1/6 staying is bad. It indicates a big barrier to entry that needs to be lowered (say by providing a web client instead of requiring a big install, or by making it easier to get around and find people/interesting things which isn't easy yet). On the other hand, it also means there is a ton of room to grow.
It also means that the current technology is terrible. Terrible. Forget web client. You need a mainframe.
2. Many new entries is a positive sign, unless there is some sinister data I don't know about that would normally be called effective PR or a growth curve.
4. As for the overall context of this thread, this does not mean it is a pyramid scheme at all, simply that SL is enjoying lots of new entries at the moment, and has a lot of work to do.
5. In addition I wouldn't say it depends on newbies but rather that the temporary statistic is that most people have joined in the past
4 months. And at what point do they stop being newbies? Isn't 4 months online not a newbie anymore for a community like this?
See the shirkly link. Those numbers are incredibly inflated even BEFORE you consider the 1/6 return ratio. Plus they don't include alternate accounts. A better explanation for what happened is that the news media reported on Second Life, people decided to sign up in droves, hated it, and never came back. Look, if the New York Times featured www.randomtoysite.com on their front page it would have more than a few million visitors from that coverage that day. If the site sucked, and most never bought anything, it would drop off the page. With SL, the site sucked, and most never bought anything, but it CONTINUES to be news.
6. I say temporary because obviously an exponential trend in new members is unsustainable. Either most people will no longer be newbies, and a stable membership will exist at some point due to improved content and services, or for some reason the current 2.9 million users will dry up and Linden won't be able to pay their bills. I'd need to see more info on what's happened to the 1 million people who logged in over the past 2 months. I see 20,000 people online now at about 9pm EST on Thursday which doesn't sound too great.. and I wonder where they all are. I think they need more transparency about that. Is that 20,000 developers building great stuff or 20,000 newbies bumbling around?
FYI, 20000 concurrent users is the most they've ever had online, and it completely destroys the game in terms of lag. It's almost literally unplayable. It's a lot of newbies, and it's a lot of people playing a dark, seedy side of the game that no one ever reports on.
"it is naive to imagine that people are constantly quitting and that most users are newbies. I find that is not true either."
Actually, Linden Lab has admitted that only one out of every six new users ever logs on again after the first time. And as for most users being newbies: the population, while inflated, has gone from about 500,000 to 2.5 million in four months. How is that not a newbie rush?
Nt only that, but trademarks are meant to reduce consumer confusion, and Apple will be able to make an excellent case that, given their tremendous branding with the "i" prefix, they should have that right.
Cisco's position is not very strong at all.
Hmm...I wonder if one could program a "griefer" client with some simple, prebuilt griefer tools. You know, for the kids, or for your grandparents, who don't want to learn no dadgum scripting language but just want to pelt Pat Robertson's avatar with penises.
I think the funniest thing is that no one--Slashdot, CNET, BoingBoing, Reuters, etc--no one but Warren Ellis has mentioned that it originally came from SA. Steve Hutcheon emailed me but he recused himself from writing a story.
Or maybe every instance that Prokofy Neva has called me a virtual Leninist griefing scum terrorist or whatever else has been on her litany of overreactions.
Documented it?
That is the source of all the images. Steve Hutcheon of the SMH asked me if he could use my graphics to make a composite image. I gave him permission, and all the other news companies just decided to use his.
I don't really care. It's funny one way or the other.
The thread notes that this may just be a list from the County's website. That said...I am beginning to understand what Mason was talking about in terms of the dangers of consolidated databases.
Don't forget their records of voter affiliations
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Google and the CIA?
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Darnit! I submitted this a few minutes ago, but with this addendum. See what you can make of it. I'm not sure.
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That's old news. But this image, discovered by a Something Awful forum user in a time of election uncertainty, is new.
"I was browsing google maps today and came across something a little creepy. I moused over something on the map, and a preview page came up. (This is with a firefox extension that loads a URL you mouseover in a preview box.) It had people's legal names, familiar names, precinct, and political affilations. It seems to have had a lot more information than that, but I didn't scroll.
Thankfully I took a screenshot when it first happened, becuase I couldn't make it happen again. It's weird how codey the whole thing looks, isn't it? It obviously wasn't meant to be seen by people like me--it looks like it was meant to be parsed by a computer. What kind of database is Google hiding behind its maps? (I don't mean to sound tinfoil here, as this probably isn't some joint Google/NSA operation. I just wonder how they got this information and what they're using it for.)"
No one denies that the Internet needs a serious infrastructure upgrade before it starts serving streaming HD content and high QOS VOIP service and the like.
Telcos don't want to pay for this incrementally, making periodic investments of their own cash, like has been done in the past.
Nor do they want to double the consumers cost--something that would make end users scream.
So they charge content providers, who will bear the early brunt. Content providers will charge end users, who will scream at the content providers.
The telcos want an internet like television: subscribe for high quality content, with a few low quality of content free sites.
And it will be horrible for the Internet if this happens.
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What part of "Do No Evil" is difficult to understand?
Maybe you should hire a couple linguists to complement your thousands of engineers.
I'm reading people complain about 200 mb memory leaks. My Safari usually eats up 800, 900 megabytes of RAM even after just starting up. I'm running SALR but still.
Is it normal that at startup my powerbook has over a gig of virtual memory?
I agree. I read his book and I don't agree with everything he says. However, at this point I would say I value his judgment more than I value the experience of others.
It's also worth noting that, in addition to things like 1 million strong for Barack, his team has set up it's own social networking site where Obama supporters can share photos, messages, groups, fundraising, and events.
Dean ushered in Internet fundraising in 2004. Could Obama harness social networking?
You'd think that, but when there isn't an obvious opportunity for good PR, Linden Lab is even more proactive in chilling efforts. This article details how they sent a frantic letter to the CBC to keep a critic from speaking out on a radio show. Not that you'd ever know it from the mainstream media's lack of coverage.
1. 1/6 staying is bad. It indicates a big barrier to entry that needs to be lowered (say by providing a web client instead of requiring a big install, or by making it easier to get around and find people/interesting things which isn't easy yet). On the other hand, it also means there is a ton of room to grow.
It also means that the current technology is terrible. Terrible. Forget web client. You need a mainframe. 2. Many new entries is a positive sign, unless there is some sinister data I don't know about that would normally be called effective PR or a growth curve.
Yes, there is. Try this article.
4. As for the overall context of this thread, this does not mean it is a pyramid scheme at all, simply that SL is enjoying lots of new entries at the moment, and has a lot of work to do.
Wrong. Because as even the most diehard SL fans have pointed out, much of the attraction of Second Life is pure hyperbole.
5. In addition I wouldn't say it depends on newbies but rather that the temporary statistic is that most people have joined in the past 4 months. And at what point do they stop being newbies? Isn't 4 months online not a newbie anymore for a community like this?
See the shirkly link. Those numbers are incredibly inflated even BEFORE you consider the 1/6 return ratio. Plus they don't include alternate accounts. A better explanation for what happened is that the news media reported on Second Life, people decided to sign up in droves, hated it, and never came back. Look, if the New York Times featured www.randomtoysite.com on their front page it would have more than a few million visitors from that coverage that day. If the site sucked, and most never bought anything, it would drop off the page. With SL, the site sucked, and most never bought anything, but it CONTINUES to be news.
6. I say temporary because obviously an exponential trend in new members is unsustainable. Either most people will no longer be newbies, and a stable membership will exist at some point due to improved content and services, or for some reason the current 2.9 million users will dry up and Linden won't be able to pay their bills. I'd need to see more info on what's happened to the 1 million people who logged in over the past 2 months. I see 20,000 people online now at about 9pm EST on Thursday which doesn't sound too great.. and I wonder where they all are. I think they need more transparency about that. Is that 20,000 developers building great stuff or 20,000 newbies bumbling around?
FYI, 20000 concurrent users is the most they've ever had online, and it completely destroys the game in terms of lag. It's almost literally unplayable. It's a lot of newbies, and it's a lot of people playing a dark, seedy side of the game that no one ever reports on.
"it is naive to imagine that people are constantly quitting and that most users are newbies. I find that is not true either."
Actually, Linden Lab has admitted that only one out of every six new users ever logs on again after the first time. And as for most users being newbies: the population, while inflated, has gone from about 500,000 to 2.5 million in four months. How is that not a newbie rush?
I love the fact that even though YouTube banned me from uploading Second Life Safari videos people still do it just to spite them.
In case Google takes that down to, the video is available here in the original article that started everything.
I think the i comes from I, as in personal.
Nt only that, but trademarks are meant to reduce consumer confusion, and Apple will be able to make an excellent case that, given their tremendous branding with the "i" prefix, they should have that right. Cisco's position is not very strong at all.
Hmm...I wonder if one could program a "griefer" client with some simple, prebuilt griefer tools. You know, for the kids, or for your grandparents, who don't want to learn no dadgum scripting language but just want to pelt Pat Robertson's avatar with penises.
HOORAY.
Now everyone will be able to program their own perversions!
Thanks.
Thanks.
I think the funniest thing is that no one--Slashdot, CNET, BoingBoing, Reuters, etc--no one but Warren Ellis has mentioned that it originally came from SA. Steve Hutcheon emailed me but he recused himself from writing a story.
Thanks for clearing that up. I would not have known that, as he only said he was an "Offical Live Instructors"
I AM the internet!
If you think THAT'S bad, check out what happened when a Linden Labs employee tried to get me to take down photos of his "mate's" babyfur child porn.
Or maybe every instance that Prokofy Neva has called me a virtual Leninist griefing scum terrorist or whatever else has been on her litany of overreactions.
Documented it? That is the source of all the images. Steve Hutcheon of the SMH asked me if he could use my graphics to make a composite image. I gave him permission, and all the other news companies just decided to use his.
I don't really care. It's funny one way or the other.
Nor to me.
Although I find it ironic that the person who uploaded the images didn't get any legal threats.
YouTube just deleted my account.
This might work, then.
The thread notes that this may just be a list from the County's website. That said...I am beginning to understand what Mason was talking about in terms of the dangers of consolidated databases.
Darnit! I submitted this a few minutes ago, but with this addendum. See what you can make of it. I'm not sure.
___________
That's old news. But this image, discovered by a Something Awful forum user in a time of election uncertainty, is new.
From the post:
"I was browsing google maps today and came across something a little creepy. I moused over something on the map, and a preview page came up. (This is with a firefox extension that loads a URL you mouseover in a preview box.) It had people's legal names, familiar names, precinct, and political affilations. It seems to have had a lot more information than that, but I didn't scroll.
Thankfully I took a screenshot when it first happened, becuase I couldn't make it happen again. It's weird how codey the whole thing looks, isn't it? It obviously wasn't meant to be seen by people like me--it looks like it was meant to be parsed by a computer. What kind of database is Google hiding behind its maps? (I don't mean to sound tinfoil here, as this probably isn't some joint Google/NSA operation. I just wonder how they got this information and what they're using it for.)"
What is Google doing?
It isn't at all.
Linden labs is trying to sue a group of "griefers" under federal regs right now.
LL and second life are insane, and I'm very worried that Congress, which is seriously considering taxing SL, will start enforcing property law on it.
The problem is this:
No one denies that the Internet needs a serious infrastructure upgrade before it starts serving streaming HD content and high QOS VOIP service and the like.
Telcos don't want to pay for this incrementally, making periodic investments of their own cash, like has been done in the past.
Nor do they want to double the consumers cost--something that would make end users scream.
So they charge content providers, who will bear the early brunt. Content providers will charge end users, who will scream at the content providers.
The telcos want an internet like television: subscribe for high quality content, with a few low quality of content free sites.
And it will be horrible for the Internet if this happens.
That's not it. Is it? I'm pretty sure they're referring to this PDF, since that's a 25 page redacted document.
I'm confused. I can't seem to figure out what is what. The Klein thing on Cryptome wasn't submitted by ATT, like TFA claims. What gives?