Ten years in the future, Cory is being interviewed on an up-and-coming videoblog streamcast via camera phone.
"Why did you do it, Cory? Why did you pretend to fight DRM all this time?" asks the interviewer.
"I did it... for the power."
No, Cory truly is as passionate as he claims to be. He's released every one of his books for download, and evidently intends to continue to do the same.
Speaking of which, Charlie, are you planning on releasing the results of your Accelerando-for-free experiment? Have you been able to infer any patterns yet? Is Cory on to something here?
Now, Second Life has merely chosen to cut itself in on the action.
Not exactly. Unlike Sony and Everquest, Linden Lab doesn't actually profit from this directly. They don't sell currency, but they do provide the tools for others to exchange it. There's no flooding the market with play money involved here. It's also been going on for over a year.
According to Linden Lab, the initial port has been outsourced, and is in development. They're a very small company, so outsourcing the port is the only way they're likely to get one done.
Users retain ownership of all intellectual property they create within SL. You can licence anything you create as you see fit. There are plenty of scripts and objects licenced under the GPL, public domain and other licences floating around.
It's not strictly for browsing the web, though that's likely to be the most common usage. Mozilla's a quick and easy way to render text and graphics together as a texture, rather than sending the data as a single, premade image.
For applications that require a texture on a structure within SL to be frequently updated with new (arbitrary) text or images, it's invaluable.
According to the Linden Lab statement, it will be used primarily for integrating content into the environment. So yeah, it could be used for annoying "banner" ads, but the most useful applications would be for commerce or communications, or gaming. With the ability to generate HTML from a script running within SL comes all sorts of potential uses, everything from a complex web app to a quick and low-bandwidth way to render text on a sign, rather than forcing the client to download and decompress a texture.
Easy. The next time the network goes down, post a sign by the front door or email everyone on the network, explaining exactly what happened and who's to blame.
"Why was the network down all Sunday night? Ben in Room 302 failed to install these patches."
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Whew, there it is!
Isn't that what space travel is actually like?
That WAS the joke, thanks.
Where have you been? OSX has always supported multi-button mice.
"Why did you do it, Cory? Why did you pretend to fight DRM all this time?" asks the interviewer.
"I did it... for the power."
No, Cory truly is as passionate as he claims to be. He's released every one of his books for download, and evidently intends to continue to do the same.
Speaking of which, Charlie, are you planning on releasing the results of your Accelerando-for-free experiment? Have you been able to infer any patterns yet? Is Cory on to something here?
Not exactly. Unlike Sony and Everquest, Linden Lab doesn't actually profit from this directly. They don't sell currency, but they do provide the tools for others to exchange it. There's no flooding the market with play money involved here. It's also been going on for over a year.
According to Linden Lab, the initial port has been outsourced, and is in development. They're a very small company, so outsourcing the port is the only way they're likely to get one done.
Users retain ownership of all intellectual property they create within SL. You can licence anything you create as you see fit. There are plenty of scripts and objects licenced under the GPL, public domain and other licences floating around.
For applications that require a texture on a structure within SL to be frequently updated with new (arbitrary) text or images, it's invaluable.
According to the Linden Lab statement, it will be used primarily for integrating content into the environment. So yeah, it could be used for annoying "banner" ads, but the most useful applications would be for commerce or communications, or gaming. With the ability to generate HTML from a script running within SL comes all sorts of potential uses, everything from a complex web app to a quick and low-bandwidth way to render text on a sign, rather than forcing the client to download and decompress a texture.
"Why was the network down all Sunday night? Ben in Room 302 failed to install these patches."
Continue to do it every time.
It's also fairly trivial to run SL under Wine, though I see that's not your thing.
"Looks like his webserver was RUNNING on the Mac Mini!" Hahahaha, oh MERCY. My aching sides!