10 minutes with 3DXplorer- not ready yet?

Having a quick look at 3DXplorer a promising online MUVE environment, lead to frustration in the first couple of minutes.

A free account lead to an Avatar editing space, that did not persist (“auto save”) changes, but not only that you can click a button to edit your World and LOSE all your edits on the Avatar, there is no prompting to “Save” , if you do not know that this will happen, well that’s all folks, you have to start again.

Then suddenly after attempting to return to my Avatar , I was logged out, when I tried to log in again , my account had disappeared.

HMMM this IS NOT a BETA , is this an Alpha ?

Back to the future – SL 2007 or earlier when does information fit?

Pottling around wondering why we are looking at a discussion on the relevance of SecondLife in the context of our now 12 months since initially applying for funding and more than 6 months since the start of the project. All sparked by a post in our Google group about a blog entry “gsiemens” February 27, 2009, . Why are we holding this discussion, when this conversation was being held in January 2007 Fashion , August 2007 and perhaps even earlier?

Here is one thread that seems more relevant from the i-Anya blog Big fat lily white SecondLife .

Abstract Data Types

Funny how those abstract data types just wont be buried, and in the end it all comes round again … follows a brief conversation between two colleagues, that such and such a book would be a good text for the 2nd year programming course in Java , due to its coverage of data types such as stacks and lists.  Isn’t “generic programming”  sort of about using abstraction in a number of ways,
alpha x beta -> alpha and all that?

c# links while looking at Lists and Stacks

• Jon Skeet’s C# and .NET articles and links
• C# Online
• List methods at MSDN

Ethical dilemma? Real Cyborg Moths – Argh!!

An article in the IEEE Spectrum online attracted my attention “Cyborg Moth Gets a New Radio” low powered radio communications would be helpful in the development of digitally enhanced interactive environments. But wow, suddenly the horror of the article crept up on me! These Moths are having electrodes to an external Cybernetic “ex-plant” inserted into them while they are pupae. Yuck, the moth is undergoing its transformation from early life to adulthood, reaching for its ultimate goal and purpose, when it is interfered with, and usurped, and coerced in  becoming essentially a weapon. I feel disturbed.