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Re: Logicamp grid falls victim to ransomware

Frans — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:07:28 -0000

It's also relatively cheap to automatically push your backups to cloud hosting, by amazon, dreamhost, etc.

Re: Phasing Out Premium Accounts, and a Limited-Time Offer

Frans — Thu, 07 May 2015 16:52:57 -0000

I don't quite understand what happens after June 1st.

Re: GW2 Pumpkin Carving Blood and Madness 2014 Achievement Guide

Frans — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:20:29 -0000

Awesome!

Re: GW2 Pumpkin Carving Blood and Madness 2014 Achievement Guide

Frans — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:09:30 -0000

There are also Pumpkins in Plains Of Ashford

Re: Do we live in a computer simulation?

Frans — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:43:18 -0000

So if we are in a simulation and are developing to create similar simulations, it is possible the computer we are simulated it in is simulated as well.
Like the old Indian woman said: "It's turtles all the way back" with the added rule that is also turtles all the way forward.

Re: Do we live in a computer simulation?

Frans — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:41:59 -0000

We our selves are a part of the simulation, the bad things happen to us. There is no going back to try again for us, we are not operating it from the outside. If the simulation is restarted from a earlier point, it would not but us who had that bad thing happen, but it would be a younger version of us, who is different from the older one.

Re: Firestorm opens office in OSGrid

Frans — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:43:30 -0000

I will stand corrected on that, if there is. As this is a opening message in public, I can criticize the design choice.

Re: Firestorm opens office in OSGrid

Frans — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:53:03 -0000

I'm not suggesting such themes as a cave or a space station, that is the wrong starting point for design. You start with what you are trying to tell people or have them do and then what you minimally need to accomplish that, and for VR where you locate that in space. You will have to come up with a design sauce that things will be themed in, sure.

A office is just a bunch of rooms stacked on top of each other, I would object to that if it was set in a cave or a space station too. That very literally stacking on top of each other is a necessity for RL offices that is not really the case for a Virtual locations. Specifically when you see the amount of space in front of it that seems to be without function, other than framing a rectangular building.

Re: Firestorm opens office in OSGrid

Frans — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:33:44 -0000

Wow, they made a actual office building?
You would think that the makers of a Virtual World client would have some clue on what would make a good virtual experience. Office buildings are generally the least engaging environment you can create.

Re: Win een bèta key voor WoW: Mists of Pandaria!

Frans — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:35:53 -0000

Een Panda, die net zo badass als in het filmpje te keer gaat als hooligans en ander tuig de politie te lijf gaat. ;P

Re: Should we gamify the hypergrid?

Frans — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:42:01 -0000

I think doing something like 'best' hair, would be a mistake, that would just be a contest of having the most friends who says x brand is best.

I think a foursquare model would work well though.

Re: Cloud Party is a social platform, not a business venue

Frans — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:12:52 -0000

There are basic shapes in the library that you can rez and edit, though it much more limited then SL in that manner.

Re: SXSW 2012 - This Spartan Life @ SXSW: Frag Me Gently

Frans — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:09:46 -0000

What a excellent and imaginative way to address important topics inside the addressed medium it self. It should give a sense of familiarity to the audience, and at the same time put the guest far outside of what they are used to, that it might result in a paradigm shift in their thinking.

Re: Some thoughts on the first-hour experience, on the Herald

Frans — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:36:47 -0000

That's a excellent post, much to think about, and it's presented as being so obvious.

Re: King of Spades Out, Ace of Hearts In

Frans — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:51:07 -0000

Sadly, several of the long time Lindens who understand what the residents needs, got let go the past months. Which is quite confusing, either we over estimated them, the lab undervalued them, or the the return to the consumer market was a very recent decision.

Re: A for Apologies?

Frans — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:26:14 -0000

I think you apologized more than was needed or warranted. I want to congratulate you on a excellent piece of 'improve theatre'.

Re: DEMO: VenueGen lets businesses stage quick and easy virtual meetings

Frans — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:40:17 -0000

Second Life has a integrated webbrowser inworld, Which means it runs flash, javascript, youtube, etc.
LL offers a secondlife version behind the firewall, which means you can have all the security you would want.

You also must have used Second Life with somekind of animation overrider. The normal avatar/cartoon look where you are looking, by following your mouse and interactions inworld. A lot of people don't really like that, and rather have static animations for some reason, but that is like you said, something you have to setup to your own preference.

But again, visually what I see here can be set up in SL too, and is available. All the posibilites of LL does not exclude very real-world like meetings. Though I will admit that you don't see those much. because a lot of people try to create something better then a real world meeting, and don't go for 1 on 1 replication. This might give the impression that SL can't be used in a similar matter.

Re: DEMO: VenueGen lets businesses stage quick and easy virtual meetings

Frans — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:54:25 -0000

I would suspect the same kind of hardware requirements for this as Second Life. Running in the browser will put more load on your machine as something that runs independently.

This is exactly the same toolset that Second Life has too, and more. And there are service providers that will create Life like avatars for you. I don't see any advantage of this compared to Second Life, only draw backs.

Re: Finding Your Way with Second Life Viewer 2.0

Frans — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:29:46 -0000

Odd that the new search was released with so few features. It is totally web based and could be developed independently.

Re: SL 2.0 Beta still running too slowly on your Mac? No worries!

Frans — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:52:33 -0000

I did find a occasion where fast alpha gives a less desirable results. I didn't take a pic, but with certain flexi hair, layers of flexible strands. Like this. http://www.flickr.com/photo...
With fast Alpha you will see a alpha out line around them, seeing right through the other strands, the background coming through.

Re: Back?

Frans — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:29:43 -0000

Hey Eshi, I just catched up with your blog. I'm glad you seem to be doing well on all fronts.

Re: SL 2.0 Beta still running too slowly on your Mac? No worries!

Frans — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:20:53 -0000

As it turns out, Fast Alpha is in the 1.23 viewer too, and works like a charm there as well, seems to be faster and better.

Re: Half the Grid is Gone!

Frans — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:41:45 -0000

Surprisingly we didn't had too much issues yesterday on Vesuvius, where we were streaming State of Play 09. Besides people having trouble logging in, everything loaded fine on the sim.

http://blip.tv/file/2266300/

Re: Opensim Texture Patch - Outpreforming Second Life

Frans — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:37:49 -0000

No where in his blog post does he say it outperforms Second Life. It out performs the old Opensim module.