Tour of an all but abandoned 3D chat client that has been around since 1995

DJ_Deathflea · 2012-05-26T12:53:58.755438+00:00

Supposedly Linden Labs handed all new employees Snow Crash and told them that they were building a real life metaverse.

Monster-God · 2012-05-26T12:36:23.083780+00:00

Hate is a bit strong a word.

forteller · 2012-05-26T04:54:42.385338-07:00

http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/29/the-coming-era-of-brain-based-law-through-the-eyes-of-david-eagleman-video/

forøvrig har vi ett kroneksempel på "tøff mot kriminalitet" rett over atlanteren. Kan vi se at det faktisk utgjør noen forskjell (utover å ha satt snart 1/3 av befolkningen i fengsel)?

Edit: finner forøvrig ingen presseomtale av saken du trekker fram. men finner en som ligner fra 1. mai i år. Men der nevnes det bare en person, som var mørkhudet ja men snakket norsk. Og det kan se ut som dem få dager etter siktet en person for den saken.

edit2: ok, fant det nå. Ser ut som rapportene kom under voldtektsforsøk.

http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1629273.ece

http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1645577.ece

Gigedoir · 2012-05-26T09:57:52.252087+00:00

Interesting that the case for once covers over the logo.

As someone brought to my attention a while back; if one compare the otterbox defender for any other brand with the one for the Apple products, the latter has a window on the back specifically to show of the logo while the rest has a solid back.

forteller · 2012-05-26T09:53:35.847292+00:00

det er hovedproblemet med FRP. Så lenge det er "dem andre" så skal det piskes og brennmerkes etter den gamle skole. Men når det er i egne rekke (og jeg banner på at FRP er partiet med mest spektakulære svin på skogen) så skal det slås ring.

forteller · 2012-05-26T09:50:47.967539+00:00

Hva om vi heller en å bare bure folk inne og klappe hverandre på skuldrene tar å bruker den moderne kunnskapen og faktisk vurderer hver enkelt av dem angående hvor problemet sitter, og sjansen for gjentagelse og hvordan den sjansen kan reduseres eller fjernes uten at personen må fjernes fra samfunnet fullstendig (det vil fortsatt være ett alternativ om andre metoder ikke fungerer).

Er innimellom jeg lurer på hva det er ved voldtekt som gjør mest skade. Selve handlingen, eller hvordan vi som ett samfunn reagerer når vi møter på noen som har blitt voldtatt. Med det siste mener jeg at vi fortsatt har en moralistisk "uren" reaksjon ovenfor personen som har blitt voldtatt. Noe som gjør det vanskelig for personen å legge det bak seg.

forteller · 2012-05-26T09:42:53.837738+00:00

rene svovel-politikken. Ikke forsøk å finne ut underliggende årsaker, bare pisk folket til å oppføre seg. Dette er jo klassisk amerikansk, og har det fungert noe særlig der borte? Hvor mange har dem sittende på langtidstraffer pga rusproblemer? Dette sammenlignet med resultatene i Spania når dem fjernet straffen for bruk, og i stedet behandlet dem på lik linje med alkoholikere.

forteller · 2012-05-26T09:37:46.624784+00:00

Tror deler av problemet er at venstresia i norge har gjort det for godt siden krigen. Resultatet er at dem ikke har noen store ideer å tromme fram mens høyresia, da spesielt FRP, kan drive å flytte målet på sin side lengre og lengre bak. Med andre ord, amerikansk populisme oversatt til norsk.

forteller · 2012-05-26T09:34:48.325929+00:00

Vel når en har en partileder som elsker "Atlas Shrugged" så vet en hvor kursen ligger. Virker innimellom som FRP-drømmen er å gjøre Norge til en amerikansk stat, bare at dem skal via oljen få til en kombinasjon av amerikansk levesett og norsk velferd. Billig alkohol, billig bensin, intet ansvar ser ut til å være en god oppsummering.

64-17-5 · 2012-05-26T09:31:44.766874+00:00

And then there are those that make their name or place of birth into marketing:

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Mona_Grudt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Grudt

Monster-God · 2012-05-26T09:27:10.562829+00:00

And yet people go for the fruit again and again...

Monster-God · 2012-05-26T09:25:59.146440+00:00

Actually, MS was quite early in the Smartphone business. Tho their platform was a mutated PDA focused Windows initially called PocketPC. WinPhone7 was a radical rethink, tho one still find the older version in the form of WinPhone6.5. What they got blindsided by, as was Nokia and RIM, was the use of capacitive screens to allow tracking of multiple fingers. Never mind that capacitive screens have big issues in any weather or environment where gloves are recommended (tho Sony has something interesting in that area now), and so was unlikely to ever come out of Canada or Finland.

Monster-God · 2012-05-26T09:19:48.116463+00:00

Wireless has improved greatly, and the initial troubles were likely of similar nature to the winmodem of ages past. Basically different parts of the world has different channels available (North America, 11. Europe, 13. Japan, 14). But to keep costs down one produce one chip that can talk them all and limit the available channels via firmware/driver. This means companies are less than enthusiastic about some third party mucking about with the internals and discovering that the can violate FCC, and similar, rules via a change in the software.

Sleep mode one can thank the insanity that is ACPI. This in particular because Microsoft maintains a test suite for it that is slightly off from how the intel reference functions. But as MS is the major provider of OSs in the world, everyone targets that slightly off test suit. End results are things like that Foxconn motherboard that basically handed out garbage data if the OS id-ed itself as anything other than Windows.

Audio worked fine, and works fine, until Canonical tried to chase MS's tail with pulseaudio. Hell, using JACK i suspect one can get better audio out of a Linux box than a Windows box these days. But the benefit will mostly be for audio professionals (or dedicated amateurs). With pulseaudio, Canonical tried to emulate MS by providing a volume slider for every program that produced sound. This so that your IM alert did not blow your ears out while watching a movie. While a noble goal, using barely beta code in the shape of pluseaudio did more damage than it was worth.

3D is likely comparable to wireless in terms of where the real problem is found.

But all this really boils down to one issue, that you can buy a pre-assembled and tested computer from any number of brands at your corner store with Windows preinstalled. With Linux, your only real option is location specialist online stores like Zareason or System 76.

And it does not help that MS plays dirty. When Asus made Linux available on netbooks, MS put XP on extended life support and dropped the price thru the floor via specialized licensing. This then turned netbooks from being something special into underpowered ultraportable laptops, and the bottom basically fell out of the market. And i really do wonder what was going on in the boardrooms right before Wall-mart pulled the Linux computers off their shelves.

And things will only get worse as Win8 is used to leverage UEFI onto motherboards everywhere. Yet another place for MS to practice their EEE.

Monster-God · 2012-05-26T09:00:41.177304+00:00

hipster? Meh, it needs a glowing fruit for that.

ssommer01 · 1 day

Yep, it seems to mostly produce a sense of debt and scale to something that is actually much smaller.

ssommer01 · 1 day

If Bonix comment is anything to go by, there seems to have been a large water export going...

ssommer01 · 1 day

A mountain of buildings covering or supplanting what is today Manhattan island.

I_27_04 · 1 day

Very much so. Note that the "glasgow kilt" also started out as a joke product, but has become a stable part of the company lineup.

sammymaine · 2 days

The most interesting one is the food printer. Consider cartridges of basic substances that can be turned into any number of dishes, both hot and cold.

colacube · 2 days

It is funny how the retrofitted tubing adds to the feel.

That seems to be the major part separating Cyberpunk from classic scifi, the retrofitted, patched up, make due solutions. 2-300 year old brick buildings with cheap conduits carrying who knows what bolted on the outside to carry the minimum of services for the time period.

And then one get the high polished towers, armors and weapons of the neo-aristocratic and their enforcers.

ssommer01 · 2 days

so the island/hill was leveled, and a tower was built in its place. As for the elevation, either a design issue with the tower or some trick of the perspective.

justateburrito · 2 days

How about beaverchucks?

http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlockes-guide-to-azeroth/episode-17-if-a-tree-falls/717261p1.html

I_27_04 · 2 days

Funny enough a april fools joke seems to have taken on a life of its own.

http://www.511tactical.com/Tactical-Duty-Kilt.html

Or how about a variant on the theme from a Swedish workwear company?

http://www.blakladerusa.com/catalog/workpants/glasgow_kilt/

sailornoob · 2 days

Tja, en kan jo også ta en titt på skattekronene som forsvinner ut av landet via slikt som konkurranseutsettelse av alders- og syke-tjenestene. Adecco er vel rigga slik at overskuddet ender hos ett moderfirma i Luxemburg, mens her til lands oppgir dem akkurat nok til å ikke gå med underskudd. Noe som er samme modell som Microsoft har benytta seg av i Europa i lengre tid. Alt av salg og tjenester ble ført til avdelingen i Irland, mens her til lands gikk dem i null.

forteller · 2 days

Tja, det er jo også en gjeng nær Halden om jeg husker rett.

Jeg bare undres på om vi vil se mer av dette nå som kirka har fått slakkere tøyler.

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