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very interesting; guess it’s good news that i have the EVDO card on board rather than an HSDPA - the prices still suck, however
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i’ll be attending this, in theory, although i’m a total Second Life noob; fortunately, i got the Linux alpha of Second Life working with a tip from the forums - on a totally different note, someone needs to explain to me why Second Life is cool
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trialling this right now - kudos to the JungleDisk folks for the Linux client
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this is an oversimplification, IMO; and while i can see both sides of this debate, only one thing is clear to me - they’re both losing here
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agree completely - think Iraq crossed with Vichy France
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interesting support for OpenSolaris & Nexenta
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Atom + XMPP = interesting
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wow, we’re only one year younger than Eclipse? but congrats to the Eclipse folks - think about what’s been accomplished in those 5 years…
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I think it is hilarious that Sun is holding a press conference in software that is only barely supported on an OS that they themselves only barely support. This is a good discussion of why SL might be interesting, or at least it is until the first comment by Prokofy Neva, at which point you should stop reading.
Uh, you’d need to start reading a lot of sci fi to really understand Second Life. Accelerando and John Wright’s Golden Transcendence both come to mind. SL is interesting for two reasons; the first historic; it is the first stable virtuality human kind has invented (interactive, manipulable, consistent). the second because the its the future new computing paradigm. Small script agents running at massive concurrency levels. Economic functions to allocate available computing power. Cross system process migration, untrusted code, its hte first computational environment complex enough to start really hitting the big deep problems of distributed systems.
I’d highly suggest the recent hour speech from the Lang.NET symposium this year,
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4/1/94138e2a-d9dc-435a-9240-bcd985bf5bd7/Jim-Cory-SecondLife.wmv
Keep in mind this is all heresay.
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