Re: Second Life restores education discount
The first abrupt abandonment of the Education and Cultural sectors was a total disaster for me as I was amidst research in SL via my University's THREE sims. I had to then fund my project at the full...
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This part still puzzles me. Why don't more grids offer OAR exports? Kitely donated this code to the community around two years ago: http://www.hypergridbusiness.c...Any grid can now offer OAR exports...
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I agree as well with you joe I even got a mainland home again...Just got tired of being alone on a grid...With 99 people online and 1000's of regions just to hard to find and connect with anyone.
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Lynne --If you are able to save an OAR, you might be able to box up your stuff and save a copy of it that way. If your vendor filters the OAR export, you won't be able to save some items, of...
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This is what I mean when I say that educators and non-profits should be using Second Life for networking. That's where the large mass of users are.But for classes, say, or internal meetings, where you...
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You are so right Ric they are not same lindens as years ago ...Also a price drop could come for all residents soon and no matter whatlinden labs did even if they offered free land they still will have...
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I personally think it is all to do with profits. Because, as you point out...they CAN do it..and easily.As well, it would open the eyes of some folx to what they can actually do in opensim, something...
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I'm not quite sure how allowing filtered OAR exports will affect profits, since you're giving people the ability to make backups of their own work.Maybe some grid managers fear that the only reason...
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which is why, imo, they are not doing so well....more and more people are seeing what they can do...short term it worked [as in a matter of a couple or so years] only due to most not much knowing...
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I actually don't ever expect anyone to tell me their real name in virtual worlds. This extends to grid owners. If you've been in virtual worlds long enough, you know what you're getting into. Yes, we...
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It's one thing when fellow residents, in-world merchants, or owners of personal, group, for-fun roleplaying, or hobby grids use pseudonyms. But if a grid owner accepts real money -- whether for virtual...
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Yes and no, but I'll agree to disagree. I think in this world we hand over our cash to faceless corporations all the time. I personally don't look up who owns every company I make purchases from in the...
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ans it really hardly matters, seems to me, if we have some name or company name or whatever...not much on the net has much permanence.i recall some thing i was in once that was big at the time, that...
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I have been developing a virtual world since May but not alone. I include the hypergate community and the grid residents. Grid development is not a get-rich-quick scheme or an opportunity to boss...
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Still too expensive. And still no OAR backups nor logging for private regions. So if anything goes wrong with LL policies or we lose funding for it, our builds disappear. And there are far cheaper...
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The top 5 listed above is only in a perfect world, Being there is no such thing a few grids been running for some time now with just 2 of the above mentioned.
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I will never understand why there is so many SL bashers in the few opensim blogs. In no way shape or form will opensims profit in any demise of SL. The way most see it, going backwards is not a option,...
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It may be a faceless corporation, but it is a documented legal entity. And that is significant.I doubt I would run a grid, for all sorts of reasons, but something that I expect people to pay for, that...
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I will never understand why a handful of people like you Joe make it your mission to hangout in Opensim grids bashing them and putting Opensim down at every chance you get. And of course your...
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