Well after 3 hours of trying to work in SL I am calling quits for the night. 5-10 crashes this evening make me want to bail on this software as soon as the class is over. I hope to make my way into game building and development and SL will be an example of what not to create. A good idea in theory, it just annoyes me to no end that now my floors move on touch and refuse to line up, and when everything is right the viewer crashes. I hope SL gets fixed soon or I am afraid UF should look else where for virtual technology.
Maybe open source with mono is the way.....
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Haha, very funny!, no, seriously, you brought me back to ancient times (early 80's to early 90's) when applications, particularly Microsoft's, who has always used users as guinea pigs, crashed constantly taking all you data with it.
The only computer that never crashed (not that I remember) with ANY application, game etc, was the Commodore 64. Perhaps it was because of its inherent 64k limitation and open architecture that made programmers be extremely careful and efficient, and also because no game or application company or software garage entrepreneur could afford to have a bad review on their product which would simply sink it to software's hell.
In contrast, Microsoft's applications from very early on were bundled into PC's and there was no way out of them for the common folk, even today.
The amount of humanity's wasted time and energy due to faulty. bogus, bloated (add your peeve here...) software has never been calculated, but I have the feeling that it would surpass the most fertile imagination.
Long live Open Source!
As software evolves into more complex systems we will see a lot of these events that you mention happen. I can only imagine what it must be to deal with millions of users all of which have different hardware and communication configurations, not to mention mega-server problems as well. Add to this internal squabbles and political and economic pressures and you will begin to feel a little compassion. Not that it alleviates your prim woes, but hey! ask (if you could) the early pilgrims or West bound pioneers if life was easy on the road. Hmmm...
sblackberryhelpwell if anyone is following this post, check out active worlds you can get up in running in about 5 min...but its aweful...makes you glad we use second life.
I really don’t mind Second Life crashing every once in a while, but it really gets hideous when it recurs every other minute. But what makes me madder is the fact that my computer crashes every time Second Life crashes, and I am always forced to restart my machine.
But like Arturo said, virtual worlds are in the development stage and we are the first adopters of these technologies. It is us—through our expertise, our knowledge and our experiences—who will work together to develop the ideal virtual environment for the laggards to adopt.
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