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USQ patenting avatar emotional body-language
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Jun 10th 2008 7:57AM Oh..and Jacek..it's slow enough just scanning for words and matching them against a relatively small database. How long will it take to make calculations based upon some complex formula to decide which emotion might be the most important one? Do I really need to smile ten minutes later...^_^
USQ patenting avatar emotional body-language
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Jun 10th 2008 7:48AM I'm sure that there are ways of refining things, there always are...but it's just refining. Oh...and if they want to do it with voice..I have a good idea. How about..voice? As in.."tone of". Isn't that the only benefit of voice now? The fact that emotions are slightly more easily communicated? Otherwise, text has so much more to recommend it, like being heard even in a crowd, the ability to look back at what was said, the lack of possibly prejudicial cues like accents or age or gender....^_^
Tateru...I had to go back and look to see what 7 was talking about. Never even noticed them first time around..just common speech, but I certainly noticed what they must have been when I re-read...or else filled in worse ones on my own. I've never understood the mindset of those who want to call attention to the fact that someone used a word that someone else thinks is rude by blowing a foghorn each time it's said...thereby making sure no one misses it.
USQ patenting avatar emotional body-language
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Jun 9th 2008 8:03PM Definitely prior art. I've had a gadget for years, called Auto Emote, that listens to text and plays emotes based upon phrases..and the current version is modifiable to add your own words or phrases to the list, in any language you want. Limited to the basic emotes...but still..sounds a lot like what this group wants to patent...
Peering Inside: Pleading the fifth
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Jun 2nd 2008 7:17PM Pavig, I quite understand what you are saying..and agree...my point is only...they are going to be gone after anyway. The Thompsons, Kirks, and others of their ilk of the world will not stop just because you try and be reasonable now. They will just get you later. Remember, they are not really out to help any children, just line their pockets...and the only way they can do that is not to win too easily. LL needs to stand up now..while the law is still a bit amorphous..and shout out the truth. There are no children in world that are known. There is a strict, McCarthyesqe program of removing those that are even accused of being underage. Non adults in SL are not now, and will not be, tolerated. Everyone in SL is an adult to the best of LL's abilty to verify..taking into account the local laws and jurisdictions of all participating residents.
The lawyers are on the payroll now..they must strike at this now, get it all clarified that adult is adult and virtual is not real, while most of the country does not care. It won't be any easier once the wingnuts get their cart rolling and keep repeating the lies and slanders that they are now over and over. You have to remember..any traction they have is based on people not understanding that in a virtual world..if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it almost certainly isn't a duck.
If LL keeps saying over and over..there are no children here that we know of...there are no children here that we know of, we will be more than happy to remove any that you know of, we are not hiding anything..if you know of something, show us..then this can be nipped in the bud. They don't need to overturn pornography laws...they are not breaking any now. The rules are hard and fast about it, and people who break them are punished, and even reported if that breaking also has broken real world laws. In other words..they act just the same as a real world court against real world offenders. People now are being told it's lawless and children are crawling all over the place. Tell them it's not true. Call those who say otherwise liars to their faces. Tell them to put up or shut up. The only way to get them to crawl back under their rocks is to shine the light of truth on them.
Peering Inside: Pleading the fifth
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Jun 2nd 2008 3:26PM Yes..by all means keep kids out in the real world..where they are safe, and off of SL...which is full of pervs who can harm them by...hmmm, wait...how is it they can be harmed here again? Isn't this all...fake? Sometimes know as "virtual"?
Couldn't resist that..but..it's not the argument. I am all in favor of making it as hard for children to access SL as it is for a Chinese citizen to find an article on Tienanmen square...but..nothing can ever be 100% sure. Even a death penalty if caught doesn't prevent anything 100%.
Peering Inside: Pleading the fifth
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Jun 2nd 2008 1:25PM ..also Prok..no one here...or even at LL..is talking about "ageplay" in the context that you mean it...with a sexual connotation. That was settled quite some time ago as I recall, was ruled as at best..against TOS if not downright illegal in many jurisdictions, and banned outright from existing in any shape or form. Groups involved in that would not have been banned from the party..but tossed from the grid. IF it exists now it exists in the same way it exists in RL. Underground, hidden, covert. Not putting together public displays for birthday parties...
Peering Inside: Pleading the fifth
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Jun 2nd 2008 1:09PM And as for Prokofy's rant, anyone in SL for longer than a week or so knows of the resident ditto-head. It's ability to ignore the simple concept that virtual is not real is legendary. It actually think's child looking avatars are children. Poor old Prok....but..a great indication that you are right comes when Prok weighs in against you. Personally, I've never had the problem before..but I welcome it now. Prok will only be happy in a world where everyone is Prok, because everyone else is a commie pinko terrorist. Must have looked under it's bed this morning and found the commie menace still there.....
Peering Inside: Pleading the fifth
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Jun 2nd 2008 1:00PM Even the above precautions are silly and wrong. If you "keep the child avies off the mature areas", you are tacitly admitting that they may be actual children. This is not the truth. Everyone here..is..first and foremost, an avatar. A drawing. A walking cartoon. The grid is limited to adults over the age of 18. It does not matter what type of body parts they are wearing at a given moment. This needs to be pounded into the brains of anyone who says any differently.
Appeasement will not work with these people, as the article above clearly delineates...they will introduce bills and laws over and over and over..regardless of their truth or lack thereof, in order to promulgate their lies and distortions. They have no moral standard whatsoever, and do not care who or how many they hurt in the process of reaching their goals, which is purely the lining of their own pockets with as much money as possible. They must be fought with the truth...spoken over and over again whenever their lies are disseminated.
There are somewhat over 13 million residents or former residents now...all of whom have a better idea of what "virtual" means than that Kirk wingnut will ever have. Somebody must have something on him. These guys are never clean. Get that information to the media. Fight fire with fire. Just keep telling the world the truth. Children are not allowed. Any children found are removed. If he knows of any children on the grid, and is not telling so they can be removed, he is in violation of US law and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Serve him with subpoenas, cease and desist orders, defamation of character suits, everything in the legal arsenal possible. Make it unprofitable to continue to lie and slander your company. Do you think Disney would let some minor league politician say things like that about them? Same with any so called "news gathering" organization. Don't cower in your holes like gophers. Attack those who want to profit from fear and lies. Make it unprofitable to continue to do so. Force them back to attacking more amorphous areas..like the devil..you know..things that can't really fight back. Attack attack attack. Make your lawyers work for their retainers.
As far as the birthday celebration goes. An easy way out is to stop referring to the groups you are worried about as child groups, as that is a clear misnomer, since there are no children involved. Call them groups with child-like avatars. First thing we can do to help LL is to stop calling them children. This confuses the great masses...to call them children in one sentence and say no children are allowed in the next. A new euphemism is needed to keep those with extremely low IQ's (like politicians) from getting confused. I throw open the floor for ideas. The euphemism needs to be short..clearly understood..yet clearly not confusable with a real child.
Calling all cultures? Not any more
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May 31st 2008 2:13PM Everett, let me try to articulate our feelings here.
Lindens are welcome to attend, but we respectfully decline to participate. (Note I use 'respectfully" with the same love in my heart that you did..^_^).
Second Life rated one of 3 worst HUDs by GamePro
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Nov 30th 2007 4:29PM OK..I've been inworld for close to 2 years, and I have to say I have never had a screen that looks like that. Never found a need to tear off menu's and plaster them all over the screen..and unless I'm doing something slightly out of usual actions...don't need those menus even one at a time. I can think of building and scripting projects where some more complex abilities might be useful being on screen all at once...but then I tend to think that maybe if you are doing those things and finding the system a bit obtuse maybe you should continue to learn your craft. I've had to keep books open next to me learning photoshop also...the more complex the functions I need to know the the higher the learning curve. I do not enter any new program expecting not to have to invest some time learning it.
As for the average user..there is nothing particularly complex or different here. Movement keys are pretty standard (arrow keys), maybe the flight keys are off standard (pg up/pg down) but that places them close to the arrows on a standard keyboard...which I like. The cam moves with the same keys..just holding down alt...and you don't really need to know much more than that to get along at the start (including reading those signs over 10M away..^_^) Just keep right clicking and clicking on things, and you should learn the rest in a short time, without even having to dig into those menus until you are ready. If you don't understand the terminology in them, you might consider leaving them alone until you do...or else certainly only make changes 1 at a time.
I have never seen a system that makes something complex easy for a newbie and does not make it harder for an expert....photo manipulation programs are a great example. You can find a simple point and click one...or one that has power...but the power one comes with a price...learning.
