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Re: Pirillo on Second Life, Take Two

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:55:38 -0000

"And finally, did Linden Lab miss an opportunity to engage in an important conversation?"

No, they didn't. There's no point in talking with someone whose mind is already made up.

Re: Second Life Historian Chris Pirillo Tells All

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:48:06 -0000

You're not to blame for SL/LL's ills. You're to blame for an ignorant rant. How can LL be overrun by people addicted to gambling when gambling's been banned from SL for over three years? Doesn't intellectual integrity entail basing one's opinions on actual data?

Re: In the name of science, I offer my boobs

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:06:31 -0000

Do virtual breasts count? I've already suggested a Second Life Boobquake on my blog, and would be happy to participate.

Re: F for Fail

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:36:40 -0000

And in what mathematicians would call either the trivial or degenerate case, they're the first resort for those incapable of rational argumentation.

Re: F for Fail

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:19:40 -0000

Perhaps the term "Proktogenic" should be coined to describe statistics such as the "97%".

Re: Step UP! for Content Creation Theft Awareness

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:05:53 -0000

Perhaps "narcissistic" would be the better term.

Re: Flowers in your hair

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:08:12 -0000

I remember the 45. It didn't just say "Scott McKenzie", it said "The Voice of Scott McKenzie" on the label.

Re: Google’s Ultimate Mashup, The End of Web 2.0, and More Metaverse Wannabees

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:15:47 -0000

A quick scan turned up "...given that her lefty views aline..." in "The Fog of Blogs".

Re: Politics and Interoperability Standards

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:51:36 -0000

Thank you for an insightful post. I would differ on one issue: an object with full perms is public domain, which is very different from many Open Source licenses and from the GPL.

Re: FICbert

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:36:43 -0000

I've been experimenting with feeding dadadodo, a Markov-chain based "travesty generator", extensive samples from Second Thoughts. The results rival the original:

"I got to have an outrage to prevail"
"The geek told, the amateur told me, that nobody is just FUD."

Re: A Tale of Two Companies

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:58:15 -0000

I think Mr. Jones retraced the path taken by Richard Gabriel in his "Worse is Better" paper.

Re: The Biggest Emerging Technology Disappointments of 2007

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:33:57 -0000

Correction: almost no one spends tiime talking to businesses that haven't done their homework in virtual worlds, e.g. real world clothing stores whose overpriced Second Life products are inferior to average SL freebies. Residents of virtual worlds aren't awed by a big RL name; deal with it, and learn what people really want.

Re: Hell freezes over!

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:55:20 -0000

Very neat... now, once they get scripts to run with the C# bytecode, things will really be nice.

I just hope there's a good Open Source physics engine that can be slid underneath in place of the proprietary Havok engine.

Re: From Welfare State To Laissez-Faire Capitalism

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:55:48 -0000

I'm not sure it's proper to conflate libertarianism with anarchy. Though there is some difference of opinion (vide Marc Stiegler's _Earthweb_ for not only an entertaining read, but also in passing a view of a very libertarian future that has the notion of private police forces), the libertarian notion of government I most often read of is a minimal government that protects against fraud and initiation of force--not anarchy.

That said, as many have pointed out, incumbents in the US have such an advantage that their re-election likelihood rivalled that of members of the Supreme Soviet, and election laws are such as to make it nearly impossible for "third parties" to gain a foothold. Alas, there's nothing about being a politician that renders one noble.