[View Quote]Rolu <rolu at bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:378e455e.0 at homer...
> Let's buy out AW and put Eep in charge.
You laugh but that is exactly what must be done.
If AWLD is of the mind that money talks an bullspit walks then community
isn't going to ammount to a pile of wreaking, steaming dung to them. My
suggestion? I absolutely love AW and its concept of an immersive world where
people can talk and create and do all the things that the real world used to
be capable of. Now though, as in the real world there are only a few people
who would seemingly seek to assume the needs and wants of those who are
clearly telling them otherwise are ignored, There is only one single choice.
Boycott. That's right, boycott. A simple technique of consumerism that is
the ultimate in effectiveness. It is sometimes the only tool we as consumers
have when nothing else works. Not renewing and not using and not
volunteering to help and even not complaining (because you aren't there
anymore) works. When there are no consumers there is no bread on the table
and so if one needs bread or the money to buy it, one will need to do
something to refresh the faith that the consumers once had.
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To the "Powers that Be" . . .
The biggest wish on my list is that the Active Worlds product would include
an ear that listens. Not just to the chatter that sometimes gets in the way
of hearing what's behind the chatter. There are many, many talented minds
here and it seems no one is listening. If there is listening going on there
isn't much communication to relay that fact, Frustration runs rampant among
those who might become the greatest assets to your company causing those
same frustrated geniouses to become a liability. Those that would be your
greatest allies are your adversaries not because they have no belief in you
but because they do. And because that belief is shattered each time a letter
is ignored, each time an ear is deaf, each time one who means well but
doesn't have the right words is not taken seriously, each time someone who
seems uneducated, slow or unaware goes unheard, each time genious is
unemplimented.
In this virtual world we have come together to form a community. It's an
interesting thing, this community, for in it we find power in our numbers.
If our numbers were to reform in a different community would then the
"Powers That Be" finally give us audience?
--
CyanAura /Aesthene
[View Quote]> Eep² <eep at tnlc.com> wrote in message news:378DB793.EB387998 at tnlc.com...
this,
> don't just blurt it out.
> development, I would be concentrating on getting RW3 implemented (which
> Roland is supposedly doing finally) and if I didn't feel it could live up
to
> a performance improvement, I'd dump it and go with another 3D engine. I
> would not have added file transfer or done the lame at mart wanna-be
> "e-commerce" thing and would have instead focused Roland's energy towards
> getting OLD AW bugs fixed, including most listed at
> http://tnlc.com/eep/aw/improve.html
CREATED
> AW...and I probably never would've teamed up with Cryonics. ;) I'd keep
> Shamus and Cal though, of course. E N Z O is up in the air though...I'd
have
> to see if he still had the AW vision I once thought he did at one time
long
> ago.
that
> butt-ugly seamed grass texture, and possibly raise the ground up .3m so
> things actually look LEVEL, providing the effect didn't destroy everyone's
> creations. (If necessary, all panels--or everything) at 0 or -.3m altitude
> could be raised .3m to accomodate the ground height change.
> causing more harm than good. Instead I would "preach" common sense when
> dealing with idiots, and make sure everyone knows how to mute someone. I
> would also have Roland implement a mute option for people listed in the
> whisper list, and add a "mute all tourists" and "mute all" options.
> dialog between them, me, and AW's developers (Roland and HamFon) to move
AW
> in a direction more towards the community and not to faceless
> corps/organizations just because they may have more money. Money doesn't
run
> AW; community does. Without community (what little AW may have), AW would
> die. Period. I would have Roland give me status reports of exactly what
he's
> working on to see that things are actually being accomplished. With HamFon
> working on AW now, hopefully things will get implemented/fixed faster, but
> we'll see.
> in here...they don't. They have their own priorities and agenda for
AW...and
> it ain't to fix all of these annoying bugs to make AW life easier, either.
>
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