RL is complicating my being at the Content Creation meetings. Fortunately for me, Medhue is live-streaming and recording the meetings. The video is here: Medhue @ Content Creation. My summary follows.
Chess Wonderland
Vir Linden had nothing new on viewers. He often tells us about what he is doing with a specific viewer.
This week Vir has been working on the Animated Objects. Currently the work is in the nature of proof of concept. Next week he will start to look at server side changes that will be needed.
A total trivia bit is: Vir uses a SL Birthday Bear for his animation test subject.
Internet debate often gets abusive. People site facts and present well reasoned arguments only to be shot at with abuse. Scott Adams has an answer for why that is.
OK, we started out the day having no idea what was deploying this week. The Deploys thread had not updated as of 12:30 SLT 5/16. – OK, later in the day Caleb got the post stickied and out where people can find it.
And now for something a little different
We do know the server operating system update of the previous week on Le Tigre was rolled back.
My update tracking at my home, main channel, shows no restart today (2:40PM 5/16).
The Deploy post, now that Whirly pointed me to it and now that someone changed the stickiness of the posts, shows no roll for the main channel.
I’m in my ninth year of exploring and playing in Second Life™. There are some things I think are still difficult to accomplish within the Second Life framework. One of those is finding interesting and beautiful places to visit, very much like real life. Another is meeting interesting people and being able to see them… not just look at them or see their ‘hello’ face, but seeing them in moments of their life. iRL that is usually only possible with close friends.
There is the Lab’s Destination Guide, web and in-viewer, and now Places Pages. Plus, a number of ‘travel’ blogs. They show us various places in Second Life. But, they still don’t do Second Life justice and it can be tedious going through those sources.
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People… meeting interesting people is not really hard, there just isn’t any simple… fast… easy… ok, lazy way to do it. Well, like real life you can go to clubs and parties and join groups. Like iRL you can participate and meet participating people with similar interests. My point is you have to put out some energy and spend some time iRL or SL.
Flickr provides a bowl of vignettes of places and people. There the challenge is finding people that can see those places and moments and capture them. These are moments from SL. They are only clues to where you may find people or places in SL. But, Flickr is a rich source of people and places hidden by the nature of life and the virtual world
If you have paid attention to the news, you know the world is in a cyber war firefight running from Friday to today. No one is going to protect you. To make it worse, some are claiming anti-virus software is making it worse. Sheesh!
The First Evil
The current primary problem is older operating systems; Windows XP and Vista. Microsoft quit supporting those old systems. But, many businesses have chosen not to update to newer systems. For some like the healthcare industry and industrial manufacturing their complex applications were dependent on features in the old operating systems. It was difficult and expensive to update.
You can enter as many pictures as you want, but if you do, only the one with the most faves will be taken into consideration to win a prize; so share as much as possible!
Post-editing is allowed, and even encouraged.
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1st Prize : 1000 L$ (lindens, to spend anywhere in SL)
2nd Prize: 500 L$ worth refund on your next purchase in the Moustique Heartsdale Marketplace Shop
3rd Prize : 20% refund on your next purchase in the Moustique Heartsdale Marketplace Shop
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[su_spoiler title=”When”] The contest run from Saturday 13th May until Sunday 04th June. [/su_spoiler]
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