Comments on: 3 weeks in SL – A Photographic Portrait of the Betaverse

By: Maklin Deckard

Maklin Deckard — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:24:03 +0000

“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.

By: Tootsie Humphreys

Tootsie Humphreys — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:07:40 +0000

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.

By: FlipperPA Peregrine

FlipperPA Peregrine — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:40:59 +0000

Hehe, I’m pretty sure a lot of these questions will be raised – often – at SLCC next weekend.

By: Obscure Doodad

Obscure Doodad — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:46:57 +0000

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.

By: zewb

zewb — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:21:48 +0000

FEAR THE P4TR10T1C N1GR4S

ANONYMOUS DOES NOT FORGIVE.

By: espresso saarinen

espresso saarinen — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:43:25 +0000

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!