Re: What is a grid?
I would agree with some that we could call even a one sim hypergrid enabled standalone a grid IF it wasn't for the stats that you post. When you are going to use statistics you can't lump them all as...
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The problem with this approach is that there are some company and school grids that are very large, without being social virtual worlds.Take the MOSES grid, for example, which has around 200 regions,...
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Maybe you can call the commercial social grids "virtual worlds" to separate them from generic grids. The word "world", to me, indicates community, society, governance -- all aspects of big social...
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I don't get what a "social" grid has to do with what I stated. It doesn't have to be a social grid to have registered users. It can be a completely closed educational grid but the people still have to...
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First Maria, good article. Well-written and well-thought out. I don't necessarily agree with it, but that's not a requisite of writing a good article. It presented food for thought and basis for a good...
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All I am saying is that if I have to make an account on a grid such as Craft or Metropolis in order to get to your place then your place is NOT a grid. It's a "place". It's just another region or set...
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Maria: "To me, a "grid" is any immersive virtual environment laid out in a checkerboard pattern (as opposed to room-based virtual environments with no map, only teleport connections)."And that's part...
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Gaga: "Arguing that a grid is not a grid unless it is a registered company or charitable none-profit is basically the same as the Second Life business model which has a vested interest in confining...
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Follow-up:In regard to reference to comparing grids to "websites"... this brings up a good point. Everyone knows what "website" means... because that term is well-defined. A website is a website if:1....
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Good article. I feel the root of the situation stems from the possibility that "grid" has become a generic term associated with VR. Mention grid to someone unfamiliar with VR in general, and you're...
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Sounds to me like the easiest thing to do is to rely on the technical name of grid mode whereby a grid is simply something that instances can attach to remotely. Then standalones like Diva's distro...
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So you're saying that an OpenSim installation that doesn't allow the public to create local avatars is not a grid?For example, my grid Hyperica has only a couple of local avatars -- me and my business...
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I welcome anyone else to collect statistics based on different criteria than mine. In fact, I wish more people would do so -- the more data points we have, the better!
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No, websites don't have to register with anybody. You only need to register if you want to have a nice domain name instead of an ugly IP address.But you can download Apache now, set up a Web server on...
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In this discussion, I haven't seen any practical alternatives to the use of the word "grid" as a generic name for a grid-based virtual environment. The word "standalone" only makes sense to people who...
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And say you have a tiny museum grid. They're probably not going to want to manage avatars and inventories, either. They'll have their own staff accounts, but other wise, people can just teleport in...
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All the grids I list are, in fact, grids. Their regions may not be adjacent to one another, but they all have coordinates on a grid. By comparison, you go to, say, Cloud Party or Utherverse or another...
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One other issue I haven't addressed, but which will come up, especially as Kitely joins the hypergrid: What do you call a subsection of a grid that's its own separate little entity?Ener Hax, for...
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Yes I am saying that an OpenSim installation that doesn't have "registered" users is not a grid. It doesn't have to be an "open to everyone" public registration. Schools would only allow their staff...
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I'm sorry it if seems that I don't value the work you do in collecting the statistics. I do value it (the effort you put into it that is). I don't put much weight in the numbers though. For one thing I...
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