Comments on: How Many Lindens Will It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?

By: JohnnyWishbone

JohnnyWishbone — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:07:27 +0000

I’m a little disapointed with them touting that 76,000 number. Half of that number consists of bots. When are they going to fix the bot problem?

http://greendots.typepad.com/green_dots/2008/11/index.html

By: JayR Cela

JayR Cela — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:40:54 +0000

Well I am willing to stick it out for one more year / see what happens in Linden Land / however I have all ready established an account on OSGrid / i guess i will float back and forth between the 2 and possibly 4 different virtual worlds over the course of the next 12 months / and make a decision then

JayR Cela :_)

By: Harke

Harke — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:38 +0000

remember when the blog was used to communicate to the residents? when it had updates and new features and apologies and relevance to the residents? now, it’s introducing, X Linden or “Manager Soandso” head of Nothing Particularly Exciting Phase II…

By: tucker Quandry

tucker Quandry — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:24:55 +0000

I meant nice screw job on the Open Space islands. Not OpenSim. OpenSim is free, and how does 45,000 prims sound and still great performance.

By: tucker Quandry

tucker Quandry — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:23:52 +0000

Joy to the world. Nice screw job on the OpenSim. Great good ole boy network being created.

Switch to OPenSim, and really be on the cutting edge for less the cost…like free..free is good.

By: Aimee Trescothick

Aimee Trescothick — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:43:24 +0000

Well, now they’ve found the Look, they just need to find the Feel!

Obvious pun, but someone had to make it

By: What the?

What the? — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:07:36 +0000

He recently left Pixar? (you must ask yourself why anyone would leave Pixar to go to Linden Research)
He was part of the Tivo team? (if that UI is indicative of what this guy has in mind - pffft!)
A SGI guy from way way back.
SGI = Failure!

M Linden and his “cheers” is just more of the same BS we’ve come to expect from these clowns. M - want some advice? Fix your organisation, sort out your Goverance Team and whilst your at it - pull your head out of your ass with regard to this commercialism speak you put out on the 2nd Life blog!

By: Mm

Mm — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:48:50 +0000

I think you’re reading too much into the quote about modularization. I’m pretty sure it refers only to the UI widgets. The UI is in the process of being converted to XML definitions. The functions that those widgets can perform is still hardcoded. So you’ll be able to rearrange the deck chairs, but you won’t be able to make the freighter look like a clipper ship. And working with the XML code is probably as hard as working with the C++ code. Have a look at it in the skins/*/xui/*/ directory. It surely makes internationalization easier, but building the panel you show above would still require an expert.

By: Nicolo Luminos

Nicolo Luminos — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:28:31 +0000

I think you over simplify not only Howard Look’s credentials, but make a broad sweeping judgement of how movies are made (not to mention the added complexity of computer-animated movies.)

I dare say there was never a single camera necessarily used in the conventional sense on WALL-E, or Ratatouille, so then who is the director?

Look has a long running experience in managing and working on cutting edge design teams, and even if you don’t want to give credit to the Linden’s in this fabulous free agent pick-up, believe me, you should.

Nicolo Luminos

By: Daniel Regenbogen

Daniel Regenbogen — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:47:41 +0000

I’m with dandellion here, more PR from the Lab instead of some hard facts and words we could count on. A couple of days ago I told you in chat that I’m watching the blog for new staff additions - waiting mostly for the introduction of “DamageControl Linden”. I don’t think this one here is it.

What is needed are some goodies for the residents, goodies that come into effect quickly, better immediatly - not again promisses for a bright future sometimes in the middle of next year. Some more advantages for premium users. Upping prims to lets say 20,000 per region. LL has to GIVE something instead of just taking and taking more again and again. And not something mystic, not some background gimmick or shiny display, but something that each and everyone can really feel and count and take advantage from himself. And as I said, it has to happen quickly. The UK was able to drop the VAT by 2.5 percent within 2 weeks, to fight the effects of the economic crises right NOW when they happen, not sometimes next year when even more damage is done. LL should be able to give something right NOW, too, to show the residents that they really are as appreciated as all the hot air comming from M’s mouth claims.