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Bragg vs Linden Lab - the first filing

Second Life Insider

Jan 10th 2007 10:51AM The damages sought are about USD $75,000. That's peanuts in lawsuit-crazy America :)

Just Askin': Open Source viewer - bane or boon?

Second Life Insider

Jan 10th 2007 10:42AM Mars, given your first impression of the code being impenetrable and thus difficult to maintain, what is your take on those, like Dave Winer, who already say it's only a matter of time until someone reverse-engineers the server code or builds an open-source implementation that talks to the viewer?

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1172#comment-114705

Just Askin': What's Squicky To You?

Second Life Insider

Jan 10th 2007 10:34AM I concur with just about all of the above, but I also think that almost anything in a virtual metaverse can look and feel disturbing, "Uncanny Valley-style" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley - if you look at it the right way.. I think it's curious enough that the Lab managed to design adjustable avatars that most users don't freak out over right away :)

Virtual Lab Rats

Second Life Insider

Dec 22nd 2006 10:30AM I think y'all might be interested in listening to this recent lecture by Philip Zimbardo, Stanley Milgram's high school buddy and conductor of the equally famous Stanford Prison experiment, titled 'The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people turn Evil'

http://tinyurl.com/yex4en

Under The Grid - Simulator Frame Times and Lag

Second Life Insider

Dec 19th 2006 10:25PM Great post Tateru - so well written. Perhaps we can get someone from libsl to tell us more about Images Time. If I was asked to share my thoughts on it, I'd tentatively suggest that it has something to do with the compression / streaming decompression of the various supported sl image formats into and from jpeg2000 via Kakadu. → see http://www.kakadusoftware.com/