Comments on: Op/Ed: Linden Empire in Jeopardy??? http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Serendipity Seraph http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-57252 Serendipity Seraph Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:55:17 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=807#comment-57252 I very much disagree with the notion that SL will fail without Phillip at the helm. Any really viable enterprise of any kind whatsoever has to be built in a way that it can outlast any or all of its founders or any particular person. If SL was not so constructed then it was not well designed as an organization. A lot of this article is a very strong case of pedestal building and making even a very great and accomplished person like Phillip into a god. He is a wonderful human being and a great visionary and leader. But he is just one man, one human being. He is not the complete essence of something as deeply developed and complex as Second Life. No human being could be. Many a leader will eventually grow tired of the hero-worship and being the focus of so much attention that really belongs to what has been built and built by not only that leader but many many others. It is not a comfortable position to be in forever. Lastly, what SL becomes is up to its inhabitants, up to us, as well as up to its current Linden Labs corporate leadership. I very much disagree with the notion that SL will fail without Phillip at the helm. Any really viable enterprise of any kind whatsoever has to be built in a way that it can outlast any or all of its founders or any particular person. If SL was not so constructed then it was not well designed as an organization.

A lot of this article is a very strong case of pedestal building and making even a very great and accomplished person like Phillip into a god. He is a wonderful human being and a great visionary and leader. But he is just one man, one human being. He is not the complete essence of something as deeply developed and complex as Second Life. No human being could be.

Many a leader will eventually grow tired of the hero-worship and being the focus of so much attention that really belongs to what has been built and built by not only that leader but many many others. It is not a comfortable position to be in forever.

Lastly, what SL becomes is up to its inhabitants, up to us, as well as up to its current Linden Labs corporate leadership.

]]> By: Anon http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-15255 Anon Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:59:14 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=807#comment-15255 @ duh "Sniff and sobs". Poor greedy content creator..... @ duh

“Sniff and sobs”. Poor greedy content creator…..

]]> By: shockwave yareach http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-15254 shockwave yareach Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:33:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=807#comment-15254 LL is not doomed, SL isn't collapsing, Phillip isn't quitting to beg for C code outside Stanford, and we aren't being sold to Sony. Geez people, get a grip. Phillip is just hiring someone who is better at people wrangling than he is for that part of the job. That's all. I doubt any company would want to buy LL either because they know they won't be able to "sanitize" it without destroying it and losing all their money. IPO, maybe. Sold to Sony, not a chance. Sony or any other company knows they'd never get their cash back again. LL is not doomed, SL isn’t collapsing, Phillip isn’t quitting to beg for C code outside Stanford, and we aren’t being sold to Sony.

Geez people, get a grip. Phillip is just hiring someone who is better at people wrangling than he is for that part of the job. That’s all. I doubt any company would want to buy LL either because they know they won’t be able to “sanitize” it without destroying it and losing all their money. IPO, maybe. Sold to Sony, not a chance. Sony or any other company knows they’d never get their cash back again.

]]> By: Marc Woebegone http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-15253 Marc Woebegone Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:37:49 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=807#comment-15253 Good Riddens! To the Hawker outside the circus tent! Good Riddens... Good Riddens! To the Hawker outside the circus tent! Good Riddens…

]]> By: @anti http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-15252 @anti Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:14:04 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=807#comment-15252 "optimize the bic lighter generation" *cough*you owe your SL to that generation buddy*coughcough* “optimize the bic lighter generation”

*cough*you owe your SL to that generation buddy*coughcough*

]]> By: anon http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-15251 anon Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:56:54 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=807#comment-15251 Tenbux says "Anti-BDSM Demonstrator" is a furry. Tenbux says “Anti-BDSM Demonstrator” is a furry.

]]> By: duh http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-15250 duh Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:20:02 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=807#comment-15250 The sims will never be open-sourced, because the security can NOT be guaranteed. Any object that passes into an "open-source" sim will be able to be copied. No questions asked. As for money? Talk about a joke there. Are sims going to be able to issue their own money to residents, and then have that money transfer over to the main grid when they teleport over? Anything that goes into the servers memory can be copied, modified, stolen and re-sold. It would be a great way to copy and stel every bit of content in SL to just start up an open-source sim, grab an item, and teleport into the new sim. Once it's in that sims database, just copy it down and disperse it. There is zero security with the open-sim concept as it's being developed at the moment. None at all. Item copiers and texture rippers are a main part of the reason I stopped making things, and refuse to make anything ever again. There's no point. None at all. The ONLY thing that can't be copied with these devices is scripts, and really, I expect to see that very shortly. The open sourcing of sims would only speed that. All it takes is one group of Woodbury residents or PN to start a "private" sim, find exploits in the software, grab any items they want to exploit onto their own sim, and let the havok unfold. An open-sim is an unsecure sim. No, SL has seen the good days, and now it's flailing in it's efforts to stay alive. The "pulse" is gone. Nobody has an interest in anythign anymore. Nobody wants to buy from content creators, because they can get a cheaper copied items elsewhere, and nobody wants to create anymore because their stuff just gets ripped off. Add in the investors wanting their return on their investments, and having to "keep the numbers up" to make the profit margins, and you'll just see climbing tier fees, climbing Linden exchange rates (after the current residents sell off their current holdings of them), and a mentality of "cheap cheap cheap" hits the grid. I've absolutely given up any hope in LL being able to reverse this trend. A few of the game mechanics might be fixed, and that will benefit the company that buys out SL greatly. But for the current residents, they're pretty much fucked. The first thing LL shoudl be working on is content protection. There is ZERO incentive to make anything anymore when someone can come along with a bot, make an exact duplicate, and run a texture grabber to grab the original textures. Permissions be damned. Content creation has already dropped greatly. Again, the ONLY people with any product security are scripters, and I see that security wall being broken very soon too. So with the current state of the grid, maybe replacing Philip was a good idea, but it wont' save LL. That chance has long since passed. Fix content security, or watch it all continue to slide away. The sims will never be open-sourced, because the security can NOT be guaranteed. Any object that passes into an “open-source” sim will be able to be copied. No questions asked. As for money? Talk about a joke there. Are sims going to be able to issue their own money to residents, and then have that money transfer over to the main grid when they teleport over? Anything that goes into the servers memory can be copied, modified, stolen and re-sold. It would be a great way to copy and stel every bit of content in SL to just start up an open-source sim, grab an item, and teleport into the new sim. Once it’s in that sims database, just copy it down and disperse it. There is zero security with the open-sim concept as it’s being developed at the moment. None at all. Item copiers and texture rippers are a main part of the reason I stopped making things, and refuse to make anything ever again. There’s no point. None at all. The ONLY thing that can’t be copied with these devices is scripts, and really, I expect to see that very shortly. The open sourcing of sims would only speed that. All it takes is one group of Woodbury residents or PN to start a “private” sim, find exploits in the software, grab any items they want to exploit onto their own sim, and let the havok unfold. An open-sim is an unsecure sim.
No, SL has seen the good days, and now it’s flailing in it’s efforts to stay alive. The “pulse” is gone. Nobody has an interest in anythign anymore. Nobody wants to buy from content creators, because they can get a cheaper copied items elsewhere, and nobody wants to create anymore because their stuff just gets ripped off. Add in the investors wanting their return on their investments, and having to “keep the numbers up” to make the profit margins, and you’ll just see climbing tier fees, climbing Linden exchange rates (after the current residents sell off their current holdings of them), and a mentality of “cheap cheap cheap” hits the grid.
I’ve absolutely given up any hope in LL being able to reverse this trend. A few of the game mechanics might be fixed, and that will benefit the company that buys out SL greatly. But for the current residents, they’re pretty much fucked.
The first thing LL shoudl be working on is content protection. There is ZERO incentive to make anything anymore when someone can come along with a bot, make an exact duplicate, and run a texture grabber to grab the original textures. Permissions be damned. Content creation has already dropped greatly. Again, the ONLY people with any product security are scripters, and I see that security wall being broken very soon too.
So with the current state of the grid, maybe replacing Philip was a good idea, but it wont’ save LL. That chance has long since passed.

Fix content security, or watch it all continue to slide away.

]]> By: DinkyHockerShootsSmack! http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-15249 DinkyHockerShootsSmack! Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:48:34 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=807#comment-15249 ZOMG! Someone get me a case of Kleenex. No, not for tears of sadness. For these tears of laughter that are streaming down my face after reading this. The kicker for me was when Prok only had a very short reply. That alone tells you just how fucked up this "article" is. When Prok doesn't write a furious and long-winded reply, especially when it's about one of her pet peeves, you KNOW your stuff sucks bad. I keep getting this mental image of an alley cat turning it's nose up at a meal because it smells so bad. Please won't someone think of the BDSMers? Lawlz ZOMG!

Someone get me a case of Kleenex.

No, not for tears of sadness. For these tears of laughter that are streaming down my face after reading this.

The kicker for me was when Prok only had a very short reply. That alone tells you just how fucked up this “article” is. When Prok doesn’t write a furious and long-winded reply, especially when it’s about one of her pet peeves, you KNOW your stuff sucks bad. I keep getting this mental image of an alley cat turning it’s nose up at a meal because it smells so bad.

Please won’t someone think of the BDSMers?

Lawlz

]]> By: Anti-BDSM Demonstrator http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-15248 Anti-BDSM Demonstrator Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:46:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=807#comment-15248 @Everyone that are ALL OF A SUDDEN siding with Prok on the BDSM angles: Hack hack, Cough cough, Puke puke I hate to say this but...I DO TOO! "BDSM has its place in the world of analogies, but this is not it." I like this statement as well. Speaks volumes. BDSM, like Gemini Rotaru and her Zodiac freakshow, optimize the bic lighter generation and other *** packing junkies that polute the metaverse. But remember, BDSM has no voice - they are all bound and gagged. :O Second Life will continue on and the disposables will be cast out. "SL is NOT all slaves and masters, Agreed. We're just the only part that counts." I disagree with this statement - everyone is ENSLAVED to Lab that joins the Life. And the BDSM folks that ****-off with rubber gloves behind their crusted keyboards only stay collared for insignicant moments of their vacuum based RLives anyhow. That isn't slavery in the classical sense. It's more like a sickness Good Luck Philip! Realplayer the Sequel is waiting to be reinvented for YOUR master @Everyone that are ALL OF A SUDDEN siding with Prok on the BDSM angles:

Hack hack, Cough cough, Puke puke

I hate to say this but…I DO TOO!

“BDSM has its place in the world of analogies, but this is not it.”

I like this statement as well. Speaks volumes.

BDSM, like Gemini Rotaru and her Zodiac freakshow, optimize the bic lighter generation and other *** packing junkies that polute the metaverse.

But remember, BDSM has no voice – they are all bound and gagged. :O

Second Life will continue on and the disposables will be cast out.

“SL is NOT all slaves and masters, Agreed. We’re just the only part that counts.”

I disagree with this statement – everyone is ENSLAVED to Lab that joins the Life.

And the BDSM folks that ****-off with rubber gloves behind their crusted keyboards only stay collared for insignicant moments of their vacuum based RLives anyhow. That isn’t slavery in the classical sense.

It’s more like a sickness

Good Luck Philip!

Realplayer the Sequel is waiting to be reinvented for YOUR master

]]> By: ichabod Antfarm http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/03/linden-empire-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-15247 ichabod Antfarm Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:20:33 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=807#comment-15247 "SL is NOT all slaves and masters, Agreed. We're just the only part that counts." Meh, furries can count also. Heck, I have been known to count on occasion. Check it out: 3 2 1 - pwned. “SL is NOT all slaves and masters, Agreed. We’re just the only part that counts.”

Meh, furries can count also. Heck, I have been known to count on occasion. Check it out: 3 2 1 – pwned.

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