Second Life News 2013-36 #2

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From my perspective things are quite on the development side of Second Life™.  I suppose the Lindens could just be busy cleaning up CHUI, SSA, and working on HTTP. We also know they are working on the Advanced Experience Tools, which is probably requiring the rewriting of much of the permissions handling code for the SL system. But, every now and then we get a hint some neat new things are coming. Beyond ‘neat’ we know little if anything.

Beta Server Meeting 2013-33
Beta Server Meeting 2013-33

Andrew Linden said Tuesday that he had been fixing a griefing exploit. This is the one where large prims could knock avatars out of a region. Once upon a time that had been fixed. But, at some point the fix had been broken. That has now been fixed and the code is running in the RC channels.

While we no longer have any user group or Linden person associated with the SL Web Sites, we have heard that Monty Linden is doing some ‘web site maintenance’, which I suspect is adding some of the newer HTTP protocol code to the sites. But, we don’t really know. I guess that adding the newer HTTP communication stuff to the Direct Delivery process would be an improvement. 

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Second Life Android Viewer

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The Second Life Third Party Viewer Directory lists a new viewer for the Android 2.1 and up devices named LittleSight. It appeared on the list about September 3, 2013.

LittleSight Android SL Viewer - Image: Google Apps Store
LittleSight Android SL Viewer – Image: Google Apps Store

This is a Japanese made app. The current version according to the web site appears to be 1.2.0. But, on Google Play it is listed as version 1.4.1.

While it is listed as an app for Android 2.1 and up one user reports it working fine on 1st generation Androids. Since it is free-to-try there is little risk to checking it out.

The web site for the viewer is written in Japanese. Google Translate is not that good with Japanese. So, I find it hard to understand. That may explain my confusion over the version number.

LittleSight 1.4.1
LittleSight 1.4.1

The free app can be found on Google Play. But, it is not completely free. It may be better to call this a free to try app. The catch is you cannot teleport. You login to a single location, which you cannot select, until you purchase their service.

Users are rating LittleSight 3.1 out of 5 with 65 reviews. Mostly re views are good. Complaints I noticed are about earlier versions. It seems most of those have been fixed.

It appears to be a chat viewer for SL with the ability to use the SL World Map for navigation through SL, once you purchase the app’s service. I didn’t find a cost for the app’s service. Not having an Android I can’t really check it out.

 

Nomine Closing

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When I first came to Second Life™ it was not long until I decided I had to have a better skin. I spent months searching for one I liked that fit the look I wanted. I selected a Nomine skin. I still wear that skin.

I saw a post on SLUniverse today that Munchflower Zaius has health and cash flow issues and will be closing/selling the region housing the Nomine store.  Munchflower’s market place store should remain open to the end of the year.

Some customers that are on the Nomine subscriber are getting notices of the closing. Caete posted a copy of the notice she received in the SLUniverse forum.

Nomine Closing

🙁 I wish Munchflower the all the best and as easy a health battle as possible.

 

50 to 1 Project #50to1

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This is another of my articles on climate. If you are intellectually honest, regardless of which side of the debate you are on, this is a must read article linked to a just released video. You’ll either want to be able to refute the points made or understand them for your own use. Either way the information here will likely surprise you because the information in the 50:1 video first stipulates that everything the UN’s IPCC has claimed about climate change, global warming, AGW, whatever you call it today is true. It isn’t, but for the sake of this argument we’ll pretend it is.

Also, there is the matter of the UN’s creation of the term ‘Climate Deniers’ or deniers for short. There is no such person on the planet. When the UN cannot defeat the meat of an argument against the idea of main made climate change they make the ad hominem attack that those presenting the argument are just deniers that ignore all science and the fact that climate is changing. One really should look at who is denying what. But, again for this argument we’ll pretend that all the UN is saying is true.

Project 50 to 1 is a kick starter funded project that used IndieGoGo and direct PayPal donations. Lord Monckton and his foundation provided the initial basic math using the IPCC’s numbers. Those numbers can be found in his paper: Is CO2 mitigation cost-effective? If you are not into math, just watch the video. If you hope to refute the information, you need to deal with the math.

This video was made to support the fund raiser and set out the goals of the main video effort. The final 50:1 video is further down.

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You may figure out that the cost of the video is more than just the direct cost of editing and distributing a video. Remember. They traveled to interview some pretty heavy hitters in the climate debate. They were scatter across the world. You can see the individual interviews on the 50 to 1 Project web site. 

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