How many lives you have?

wakizashi — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:03:07 +0000

Well, most of us usually have only one. Some of us, i will not go into that explanation, have two or more life. For various reasons, we escape sometimes to some other life. Sometimes for fun, sometimes because we cant handle it. Now, I know this is nothing new, but recently, by accident, I got into Second life. Colleagues were bugging me about it, and eventually I have installed client, revoked my old account, and started exploring…When I got there, I didn't knew what to do. Oh, well, its another virtual world, nothing new, little nicer avatars than back in old days – basically just another visual IRC.
And that was so wrong. After few days exploring, I realized that it IS another world, with all basic things world have. You have currency, Linden Dollar, which like any other currency has its value, you can have your house, clothes, vehicles and everything else what you can think of. You can have full time work there, off course, you will be paid in Lindens, but you can convert them to real life money and use it whenever you want to. There are universities so you can learn about second, but also about real life. Like I said, everything you can do in real life. Well, not everything, you cant feel your surrounding, you cant smell loads of people around you, you cant taste food or drinks there, but soon i guess you will have all kinds of emulators that will bring full experience (and i dont even want to think of THAT emulators if you know what i mean ).

But why am I writing this? Well, the way i look at it, its not ONLY second life. Simply because i stumbled on some sims (sim – simulation) where people having Role play. So, when you log in to SL, you are already in second life, but it doesn't ends there. Each sim can be different life. And believe me there are loads of different sims there. In one sim, you can be Star Wars Jedi, dreaded Bounty hunter, Sith or anything else from Star Wars universe, yet on another sim you can be pirate, dragon, escort, policeman, criminal or simply whatever you want to be. You can go very wild on one sim, being something like porn star, yet on another you can be noble samurai. Now, i don't know many samurai that will go porn star in different sim, but point is made.

So, again, how many life's you have?

To web or to Web 2.0

wakizashi — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:21:34 +0000

Ok, first post that makes some sense, i think…
Wtf is Web 2.0? Well read definition and after visit this site. Now really… Do we need this? Where else internet come to? It is already on our computers, as it intended to be in the first place, but it spreads like plague. You have it on consoles, tv, refrigerators, cell phones and God knows where not…

Now, in addition to this post, let me remind you to Johnny Mnemonic (yeah, another William Gibson's short story). Nerve Attenuation Syndrome – a disease that causes people to shake as if their circuits were overloaded. Could it really be possible? Could nerves can be overloaded? Well I hardly believe that my nerves were overloaded when I was 10 years old, and playing with matchbox and majorete cars. Nowadays, I saw movies of kids, playing games, and getting REALLY angry while playing them. Or very scared. So, back then, there was no reason to overload nerves. Simply go out and buy the bread and milk, instead of programing refrigerator to do that for you. Sit back and enjoy favourite show on TV, don't bother to go up and switch channel – use remote! I mean, what is the point of all that "integration" presented in Web 2.0?

Will it make pain go away? Probably not, but it will definitely make content more attractive. Now, what I don't understand is in what way?? It is already attractive as it should be. Internet is IMHO source for information, and I need that information quickly. Off course, it would look nicer if it is formatted in some way, but it still needs to be fast to get. Well, not! Try searching something that first crosses your mind. E.g. "candlestick". And what did you get: about 4,360,000 hits! Well that is informative enough, but it will take a few life spans to browse all that. I mean, this is some random item, nothing special, plain simple candlestick! What about plain and simple "sex": about 787,000,000 hits, and generated in 0.06 seconds. Google database is God knows how big, yet its there at the grasp of your click finger (its no longer called pointing finger, cause it doesn't point to anything, but clicks left mouse "ear") within blazing fast 0.06 seconds. And with Web 2.0 it will be faster? Damn, how faster will it be? Will results be shown before i even click search? Doubtfully, but it will join all current technologies into one great all knowing thingie that will make our lives easier. Ok, lets look at the "bigger" picture of how it is presented at O'Reilly seminar
Does it looks great or what? FYI, click on thumb to open bigger version of it, so You will see how simply that is. I mean, we are creating something ridiculously complex to make our lives easier?? Where will it end?

Well it will not be soon for sure, and Im afraid to think what Web x.0 will bring to us, poor souls…

Stay tuned it will be continued…

Samurai7 » Cyberpunk

How many lives you have?

To web or to Web 2.0