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Comment Intresting... (Score 1) 77

by pyrote (#26036475) Attached to: Reuters Pulls Out of <em>Second Life</em>, Army Heads In

I find it quite interesting, the most dogged article of the month, and it's about a program that allows Social interaction... On Slashdot?! Go Figure.

A few Stats for the naysayers:
50,000-75,000 players at any given time (24/7)
Well over a Million US Dollars spent daily in world.

Personally, I run 4 'sims' (16 acre chunks of land) and pull in a profit of well over 200-300 US Dollars a month. My community has well over 250 members, and atleast 50 of them are online daily and interact. To the (seems barren, and your always alone) crap, we usually average about 10 - 20 people in-city at any given time, around 40 at bi-weekly events. Personally I pull down 30 bucks in tips whenever we have a gathering.

No Sex/Furry/Slave/camping bullcrap.

The community is a Thriving place for friends, and hell I even get a chance to blow stuff up. Usually disassemble old buildings by Demolition (fire, boom crash).

Reuters Leaving Second Life, well cya. All they tended to do was report on useless stuff and their 'feeds' in world, lagged the hell out of servers.

As for crappy graphics... Hand any amateur a set of 3d tools, you shouldn't expect Fallout 3. Personally, I see graphics in world that blows away any MMO/RPG.
Microsoft

Microsoft's Mundie Sees a Future In Spatial Computing 89

Posted by Soulskill from the i-can-only-see-the-future-with-my-magic-8-ball dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Speaking at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference, Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie explained that he sees the industry evolving into 'spatial computing,' and he envisions a 3-D virtual world populated by virtual presences, using a combination of client and cloud services. 'In a few months, the compay plans to test a new virtual reception assistant in some of its campus buildings. The assistant, which takes the form of an avatar, helps schedule shuttle reservations to get people to various locations across the 10-million-square-foot Redmond, Wash., campus. The system includes array microphones and natural language processing by which the avatar listens to the subjects and then interacts with them in real time. The system has been programmed to differentiate people by their clothing. Someone in a suit, for instance, would more likely be a visitor and not a potential shuttle rider.'"
Image

Rotterdam's Littlest Fan Screenshot-sm 8

Posted by samzenpus from the start-them-young dept.
The winner of the annual hooligan jr. contest.
Earth

The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us 578

Posted by timothy from the until-the-end-of-days dept.
narcberry writes "The BBC reports on a scientific community still holding to flat earth theories. From their article: 'Are there any genuine flat-earthers left? Surely in our era of space exploration — where satellites take photos of our blue and clearly globular planet from space, and robots send back info about soil and water from Mars — no one can seriously still believe that the Earth is flat? Wrong. Flat earth theory is still around. On the internet and in small meeting rooms in Britain and the US, flat earth believers get together to challenge the 'conspiracy' that the Earth is round.'"
Security

Does Anonymity In Virtual Worlds Breed Terrorism? 295

Posted by samzenpus from the threat-of-the-week dept.
An Anonymous Coward writes "The Washington Post has an article about the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's take on the numerous virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life) that have cropped up in recent years. IARPA's thesis is that because the Government can't currently monitor all the communication and interaction, terrorists will plot and scheme in such environments."
Microsoft

Is Windows Vista in Trouble? 879

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the shooting-feet dept.
Ken Erfourth writes "The Inquirer.net is running a story about what they consider two powerful indications that Vista is failing in the marketplace. One, Dell has reintroduced PCs running Windows XP on its website due to customer demand. Two, Microsoft is conducting a worldwide firesale on a bundle of Microsoft Office 2007/WindowsXP Starter Edition. According to Inquirer.net, at least, these are signs of serious problems selling Vista. Are we seeing the stumbling of the Microsoft Juggernaught with the slow adoption of Windows Vista?"

Long Dev Time Equals Better Game? 88

Posted by Zonk from the not-always dept.
Via a GameSetWatch post, a piece on Treyarch Producer Stuart Roch's blog. He discusses the long development time of Shadow of the Colossus, and what four years of work did for that title. From the article: "Granted, it's a bit of a stretch to make a simple correlation between more development time and higher quality product based on this tiny product sample, but I have to admit, there is certain attractiveness to the argument. Can it be that in a given number of development cycles, those that had more time with less resources would create better games than those that had short dev cycles with monster teams? One might think that having more time would allow for more polish and iteration and therefore yield higher quality product, but as I'm sure you're thinking, examples can be made of both good and bad games that were in production for long periods of time."
User Journal

Journal Journal: My first famebait! 2

Journal by pyrote

I finally got my first flamebait! well I guess it was inevitable, eventually i'd snap with all the sensationalisim in the world.
User Journal

Journal Journal: WOOO Karma

Journal by pyrote

Yay, karma's up to the point i can post at level 2! lets hope I don't just wind up with a bunch of -2 overrated's :)

Goin outa-town, Vegas calls. should be for 2 days.

Actually got a copy of GTA1! had to goto a disued server in the netherlands and wait a half hour, but I got it. lets hope it's as addictive as I remember.
User Journal

Journal Journal: I've been had.

Journal by pyrote

Applejacks apparently had this scheme in mind all along.... if it wasn't for those medling kids.

anyways, I'm using the journal now to keep a public profile of my life. It should be brief and confusing, but I'll try and make it intresting.

Today, not a bad day, not a great day. started a logo for a client. prolly sucks, but I'm happy with it's result as of now. I'll post it when it's a little further along.

Bored most of the day, not much more to say.
User Journal

Journal Journal: It's over....

Journal by pyrote

My ploy to put:
CHANGE THE WORLD! VOTE: YES! Change my applejacks!
in my Sig seems to have helped. Applejacks (which is made of apples BTW), has stopped their absurd marketing ploy of feigned ignorance about kids need for applejacks to not use apples.

Success for people with atleast half a brain.

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