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Once burned twice shy, screwing over the non profits and educators in 2011 as they did I doubt any of those burned then will ever return now, especially since the sims on SL they built usually by...
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to Minethere.To get that "Fool me once" joke, you must really watch the video of your fellowTexan, President, Dubya Bush. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...go to 00:40 to see the joke.
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yea, he fooled me once, but not twice, too!! but by then I realized he had way to many fooled for my one little non-vote to make any difference....sighs
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and let's not forget, for the education argument, that SL has an age limit on it - so for K-12 use, it's rather limiting
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Kitely's a pretty good place, one of the better one's, actually.Regarding its costs. I have had an account on Kitely for almost exactly 1 and a half years. When I joined, I spent $20 for their Kitely...
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Good articles and good comments.However, "One positive sign is that this time, Linden Lab got the timing right, with the announcement coming before the start of the academic year" is not quite true for...
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All of that, plus, the ease of making a world public or private, as and when you need, or setting up an access list allowing individuals to enter your private world. Kitely has features like this which...
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I especially highly regard transparency with commercial grid owners. Ilan and Oren give this and as well, they have no problem talking about opensim in general [and even contribute core code back for...
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Zetamex has recently updated their information http://metropolis.zetamex.com/Concerning my favorite free opensim grid and server provider-))Options are such a nice thing to have...
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Yes, I think kitely is a nice resource. But I do not really like the concept of the regions being offline when not in use. I mean I guess I am old fashion in the sense that I prefer to keep my head...
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Yes, but the on-demand concept they have is how they keep costs down. It also works into how they are able to offer up to [and more in the case of at least one region I went to] 100k prims and 100...
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I can agree with the transparency issue, also I feel I am really the ONLY provider to offer an actual number for people to call. Now even offering the phone support free of charge.Most these providers...
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I would like to point out, that a popular choose and recommended choice for educators who come to me is to use a Standalone. Which you can go http://standalones.zetamex.com... as standalones give the...
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I so agree Hack, your Zetamex Service is excellent and only keeps getting better.
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let's also remember that a "grid" isn't the only educational way OpenSim is used (or as an alternative to SL)with 20,000 SoaS downloads and Diva D2 at 22,000 and 100s of teachers touching base with me,...
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I do have to say that Zetamex is definitely on a par with Kitely when it comes to quality of service and personal involvement. I have said it before and I will say it again, Zetamex is where Excelsior...
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As a chapter focuses on protected grids for minors, it may be interesting that also Metropolis offers protected areas (using a special viewer) for projects with children and young people. The main grid...
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I myself base my choice on Ping alone, Numbers there don't lie. Better the Ping numbers better the experience.
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