Today I got my hands on the latest and greatest addition of Second Life, Windlight. Lindenlabs bought the company behind it — good to see that LL has some money — and there’s already a Firstlook viewer available to get the first impressions of how it might look like. It’s available for all platforms unlike voice and you …
Monatsarchiv: Mai 2007
Mai 31
What I hate: howling in clubs
It happens at some places more or less, depending where you go to dance: howling of the guests. Some consider it fun. Well, it is — the first time. The second time you can live with it, but the more and more often you hear it, the more annoying it gets over the time. Why? …
Mai 21
One of the best kept secrets: Philip Linden’s office hours
While most of the Lindens have office hours on a regular base and you can look them up on the web, it is of course some kind of different matter, when you want to meet the CEO of Lindenlabs, Philip Rosedale better known as Philip Linden in world. Yes, he’s got office hours, too, but normally on …
Mai 21
Howto find out object creators without the owner noticing it
Well, have you ever wondered from where your friend has this nifty new hair, shoes, skirt, whatever (s)he’s wearing, but (s)he’s not telling you from where this stuff comes? There’s a simple, builtin mechanism into the client to find it out without the owner noticing it at all. First, let’s take a look at an typical, advanced Second …
Mai 19
Blame Europe?
The Second Life Herald is running an article named “Blame Europe” about the “virtual child pornography” by Carl Metropolitan (who dislikes it clearly) reported by German reporters. The main thesis is this: Sexual “ageplay” in Second Life–as repulsive as it is–would almost certainly be legal under current US law. In the United States, only virtual child …
Mai 16
About virtual rape
Wired.com asks: “Virtual Rape is traumatic, but is it a a crime?” Well, it is written behind the background of such a thing happening in Second Life and the Belgian police investigating it right now. The author of the article disagress that it is a crime, to quote her: Rape is the ultimate perversion of sexual intimacy. Like …
Mai 15
A feature I’d like to see: Mute a certain group
We all are members of more or less big groups, some are really spammy in the time being. I’d like to be able to mute all or certain groups e.g. during a meeting, so that I am not disturbed by them at all. When the meeting is over, I want to be able to unmute them, so that …
Mai 15
JIRA Tutorial
If you ever wanted to use the bugtracking system JIRA, but were afraid or confused about it, then fear no more, here is a nice introductional tutorial about how to use it.
Mai 15
Things to come
A few things to come in the future in my opinion, sooner or later: income tax paid to your national government on virtual earned revenues, more CAD tools like now this exporter named Henshin (AutoCAD to SL), strict enforcing of this adult flag, a 3rd party API to extend the client with plugins like importers, adding client side …
Mai 15
Growth has slowed down
When you take a closer look at the key metrics of April or make diagrams out of them like here by Tateru Nine, who has been interviewed here about the growth, you can only come to one conclusion: growth is still there, but it has stalled. What are the reasons? There could be many. Perhaps the …
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