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O – noez! Torley the sales man! LOL

{ April 14, 2008 @ 9:30 am } · { Is the News }
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I CAN HAS SPACENAVIGATOR? New bundle of unexpected tutorials presented by Torley Linden today. Unexpected because his ‘quicktips’ usually surface on Tuesdays and Weekly Tips are usually Fridays. But today in Monday and there is now another set: the Infomercial Tutorials! Woot!

At the end of his post is where the ad comes in:

“You can buy the SpaceNavigator Personal Edition (which also works with 100+ other applications like Photoshop and Google Earth) at a typical price of US$50-60 at a number of places…”

Now I know at first glance it looks like I’m complaining. Not at all! :)

Actually, I thinks it great that these versions of tutorial appear. There are a lot of add-on hardware peripheral devices that are finally starting to appear with Second Life functionality built-in (even if the product itself has been around for awhile.)

I have a similar device that is designed for video editing (my first life forté) and it’s basically the same thing, except the dial doesn’t rock forward and back or side-to-side and doesn’t pull-up (it does act as a button, though). It’s specifically designed for Finalcut Pro and Sony Vegas among pther higher-end video editing apps, not “gaming’ software. Yes, I said it. “Gaming” software, because we all know the manufacturers of these devices lump SL into the same bin as WoW.

Oh well.

Check out Torley’s awesome as usual tutorials, even if you don’t already have one of these things. The presentation is always so entertaining whether you want the info that’s presented or not.

And I wish Torley would slow-down. I promised him a DVD with all these tutorials. It’s all I can do to keep-up! Hey, Torley… slow down and give me a chance to take a breath! LOL

4 *fun* SPACENAVIGATOR (3D mouse) video tutorials! « Official Second Life Blog

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Estate Owners Lose BIG BUCKS! OMG!!! Pffft.

{ April 8, 2008 @ 1:48 pm } · { Is the News }
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http://s3.amazonaws.com/torley-linden/slgrid_logo.gif Okay – so Linden Lab is lowering the price of Private Regions, A.K.A. “Islands”.

It’s really pissed-off a lot of people. Though I really don’t know why. The same is happening with mainland regions, often known simply as “mainland sims”. Now, for those land barons who stay entirely away from private estates and do all their business on the mainland sim – this will eventually hurt.

But for the estate owners – please – don’t whine. I saw a comment on Your2ndPlace today, where someone actually tried (yes, tried) to proclaim they lost $17,000 (U.S.) value by that announcement. What bunk and drivel.

First of all, where do you derive that amount from to begin with? Are you saying your name is Anshe Chung? Excuse me while I roll my eyes and sigh insultingly.

And here’s the funniest part of their comment – they ended with this (The following is my reply – with a bit of reediting for this post:):

“And through all this, I have never taken a dime out of SL for myself – I wanted to grow something, build something neat.”

Ummm… okay, so continue building it. Does the sudden price in private estates have some unexpected effect that is causing you to not build things and grow your dream? It’s just like the stock markets. When they take a nose-dive, what do you do? Do you bail as fast as you can and dump everything for whatever you can get from them to salvage it what you can?

Or, do you remain calm and simply sit on what you have?

When the stock market takes a nose-dive, you haven’t lost a single cent… until you sell.

The same is true with private islands. Until you sell – they haven’t lost any value. Unless of course, you are a land-flipper like Sarah Nerd on the mainland. Now, I really do feel for her because she was playing the actual real estate business. Anyone doing the ‘land baron’ thing with estates got hurt, though I haven’t heard of anyone doing that, because private regions usually sell for less that the cost of a new one, no matter what.

I own an island and the price drop doesn’t bother me a bit. In fact, it’s encouraging me (read; making it damned tempting) to buy that second island I’ve been thinking about for so long.

What I’m worried about is the statement that “maintenance fees” (read: estate tiers to Linden Lab) will be “reevaluated in Q3″ So, I can hold my breath and chew my nails worrying about it, or just take it in stride, trying to enjoy as much fun in SL as I can muster.

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A Second Life ‘era’ ends, to the detriment of all

{ April 7, 2008 @ 7:18 am } · { Is the News }
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“The Moment of Truth”

Among the more popular, and better known open sourse Second Life Viewers was the Nicholaz versions. They are stable, rock solid and lacked so many crashing and other bugs. For instance, Nicholaz was able to find and fix the problem of attachments ending up in your rectum after a teleport. He found many a memory leak and plugged them. His viewer was a pleasure to use and a model for the lindens to follow.

However, apparently, the Lindens follow no one. Even if it means they travel a bad, bumpy path that leads into toe wrong direction.

Unfortunately, the Nicholaz Viewer is being put to rest.

It’s a very sad day for the Second Life experience.

“Putting off this decision and hoping things would change again did work for some time, but eventually I can’t ignore the facts. So let me be straight and say that they way things look now there won’t be any new builds from me.”

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