I am on dsl so this ruling doesn't affect me immediately. The distinction the supreme court seemed to be making was between information service providers and common carriers. But as this link indicates
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-6005_22-5764187.html
The FCC is trying to define phone companies as information service providers too. That will suck. The only choices will be cable, the phone company and satellite.
The article briefly mentioned Second Life, dismissing it more or less as too complicated. Bah humbug. Second Life is a great game where you can create anything you like immediately. None of this "Ooh, I can make a tshirt, and maybe they will approve it" junk. I am currently building a house full of twisty corridors with a music room full of instruments and another area with a dinosaur that moves and roars.
The way things are built in Second Life are from a small number of primitives such as cubes and cylinders which can be stretched and twisted. You can apply textures to these primitives which are any jpeg or targa file you wish to upload. There is also a scripting language and you can upload.wav sound files.
And there is loads of social interaction too. There are events ranging from bingo to slave auctions (Oops, they made the event owners change that, now they are pet auctions). If you agree to be a pet you have to do your master's bidding but you get to keep the auction money.
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I am on dsl so this ruling doesn't affect me immediately. The distinction the supreme court seemed to be making was between information service providers and common carriers. But as this link indicates http://news.zdnet.com/2100-6005_22-5764187.html The FCC is trying to define phone companies as information service providers too. That will suck. The only choices will be cable, the phone company and satellite.
We started in 1989, before the advent of the Internet.
Who knew?
The Dalles is 250 miles from Seattle and isn't a suburb of anything. It's 85 miles from Portland.
I don't see etcb-a-sketch in there.
It sure won't be Uru. They called it quits on their online idea.
The article briefly mentioned Second Life, dismissing it more or less as too complicated. Bah humbug. Second Life is a great game where you can create anything you like immediately. None of this "Ooh, I can make a tshirt, and maybe they will approve it" junk. I am currently building a house full of twisty corridors with a music room full of instruments and another area with a dinosaur that moves and roars.
.wav sound files.
The way things are built in Second Life are from a small number of primitives such as cubes and cylinders which can be stretched and twisted. You can apply textures to these primitives which are any jpeg or targa file you wish to upload. There is also a scripting language and you can upload
And there is loads of social interaction too. There are events ranging from bingo to slave auctions (Oops, they made the event owners change that, now they are pet auctions). If you agree to be a pet you have to do your master's bidding but you get to keep the auction money.
It's a blast, check it out. secondlife.com