3 weeks in SL – A Photographic Portrait of the Betaverse
by Pixeleen Mistral on 18/08/07 at 3:46 pm
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
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…same as it ever was…
espresso saarinen
Aug 18th, 2007
i do not disagree that sl is not your ideal stable platform.
as one of my jobs has been a few decades in internet operations, i need to say that no one ever blogs “the net is working.” like our cars and other objects we expect to just work, we only notice when it does not. the ny times makes a big deal about skype being down for a day. but did they publish a lot about skype being up? no, it’s not ‘news.’
otoh, the sl platform continually shows symptoms of hokey ops architecture, single points of failure, lack of standard redundant practice. i suspect this is inherited from sl’s very hokey ad hack roots, and is slowly being fixed. i sure hope so!
zewb
Aug 19th, 2007
FEAR THE P4TR10T1C N1GR4S
ANONYMOUS DOES NOT FORGIVE.
Obscure Doodad
Aug 19th, 2007
It may be worth considering that everything that can be economically done is being done, or worse, has been done. It is very common in tech to encounter certain crushing events that go something like this:
A system depends entirely on a piece of hardware. Time passes. The company making that hardware item moves on to “next generation” hardware, and the costs of making it backward compatible are not recovered by new pricing — so the “next generation” is simply, explicitly not backward compatible. The costs of adjusting software or systems in general to be able to use this next generation face the customers of this device, and only the customers.
And sometimes the customers can’t afford to adjust the software or systems. The investment required simply won’t ever earn a return at current pricing, and higher pricing won’t be accepted by end users.
That is a grim situation. No telling if SL faces it, but given how many years the same design has been in place the odds start to increase that something like this unfolds.
FlipperPA Peregrine
Aug 19th, 2007
Hehe, I’m pretty sure a lot of these questions will be raised – often – at SLCC next weekend.
Tootsie Humphreys
Aug 20th, 2007
Funniest thing, I last logged out on July 28th, and as RL unfolded, I was unable to log back in until August 18th. I’m glad somebody was able to show me that I didn’t miss anything.
Maklin Deckard
Aug 20th, 2007
“Hehe, I’m pretty sure a lot of these questions will be raised – often – at SLCC next weekend.” FlipperPA
But not acknowledged or answered…I am pretty sure.