Kay C Lan wrote:
As an aside, for Jacque who felt she needed to put a bag over her head, obviously in Second Life your Avatar can look really good.
It does. :) Well, sort of good. I didn't want to stray too far from reality.
But from my own perspective, thanks for not putting a bag over your head so I could put a face to one of the most helpful people on the List. Thanks also for providing a couple of other names to faces (and ears and forearms) of other Revers;-)
You're welcome. I hope the targets I named weren't offended. So far, no hate mail.
And lastly way OT, at the risk of offending some, IMO the only 'way cool' thing my wife's done in Second Life is go off and get a Tibetan flag and then proceed to visit every Beijing Olympic site...
What happened to me when I was a naive, SL noob: I met someone in SL who needed a programmer. I blurted that I was one, so they immediately hired me without checking my qualifications. At that point, I craftily deduced that I'd better learn the language. Linden Script is a strongly typed language similar to C++ in some ways, full of curly brackets and semicolons, totally foreign to me. It took me 2 weeks before my first SL script would finally compile, allowing me to create something I could have written in Rev in ten minutes. In the morning. Before coffee.
I got paid 1,000 Lindens for it though. I was so proud. That's about three dollars.
But to keep this on topic: I've recently heard of several businesses and corporations who are holding live meetings, conferences, and teaching sessions in SL. Many U.S. companies have a presence there, and some universities are holding accredited classes in SL. Teachers have found that students learn more when they have an instructor to interact with, even if it is a virtual one. Other companies use SL as an extension of the real world; i.e., selling products and services, and giving out small freebies as incentives. SL can link to the "real" internet too, so you can have (somewhat limited) interaction between the two.
What I really want, and I've thought about it, is a Rev stack that would produce Linden Script. But the languages and environmental behaviors are so very different that I don't see how it would be possible. But I sure wish.
If RR decides to open a presences there, I would love to get hired to staff the place. :)
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