Re: The Sweet Smell of Desperation
There is also a very obvious question in all this. If you want an academic virtual world, why bother with Second Life at all?OpenSim is good enough that the equivalent of any of the academic regions...
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Dave --We're doing a survey now of how people use OpenSim, and with over 111 responses so far, about a third use it for personal stuff, and the rest use it for work. And of the work-related users, the...
View ArticleRe: Linden Lab allows third-party currency sales
There is an API that works on GridSurvey website. So there are multiple avenues where an automated data collector can collect stats, in addition to the Second Life login screen.Second, GridSurvey posts...
View ArticleRe: Navigation versus immersion
My usual answer to the hug-frackin-download problem is to leave the download running overnight. Though if Microsoft decide to put out an update that can fail.There's sometimes some smart thinking on...
View ArticleRe: Linden Lab allows third-party currency sales
Exchange rates are one of the ways that bankers make money. There's the published headline exchange rate which is set by a rather artificial high-speed speculative market, and then there are the rates...
View ArticleRe: Survey: How do you use OpenSim?
hey Maria, next time you do an ad showing an Avatar, give me a ring and I will model it for ya. In Metropolis, of course, 'cause she is fine lookin'!! Heck, I will even do it for free-))
View ArticleRe: Survey: How do you use OpenSim?
I'm always worried about licensing issues. With my own avatar, I know where everything came from -- in this particular case, my own modifications of Linda Kellie objects. (The avatar skin is based on a...
View ArticleRe: Survey: How do you use OpenSim?
Photographer? Actually, I might like to do that myself. Some of my photos can be seen here:http://minethere.blogspot.com/...I will leave it to you to contact me if your interested. You know...
View ArticleRe: Survey: How do you use OpenSim?
Wow, you do take some great pictures!For editorial content -- the pictures used to illustrate articles -- provenance is not an issue. So, say, if you went out in the street and took general pictures of...
View ArticleRe: Survey: How do you use OpenSim?
ty-)) I like taking photos of regions, especially other peoples-)) mainly to showcase the talent in the metaverse.Most of what I wear nowadays is by Avia Bonne and some by Lani Global....dunno, really,...
View ArticleRe: Survey: How do you use OpenSim?
If you -- or anyone else -- wants to take pics of cool destinations, just email me the pic (or URL of the Flickr page or set), and its hypergrid address. My email: maria@hypergridbusiness.comI'll add...
View ArticleRe: Survey: How do you use OpenSim?
Ah, 3rg was my home for a time. I still have a shop there. I used to live on the Elsewhere region that Linda had rented.I like that grid and I terraformed around 30 of their grid-owned regions for them...
View ArticleRe: Lost Paradise tops in third annual grid survey
Interesting how things change in such a short time-)) Just wanted to say that....lol
View ArticleRe: AviWorlds moves to self-hosting
and is the uri the same? and is my shop still there? lol
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