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Jul 20, 2001, 6:52pm

Note the part "Well, into the filter you go in THIS newsgroup too."...

[View Quote] > geez, M a r c u s never stops babbling about his opinion... I'd suggest you
> let him alone, so he doesn't continue with another 50 posts containing the
> same thing, just rewritten...
>
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Jul 20, 2001, 6:54pm

No it doesn't. I LIKE long file names because they can be MUCH more exact and informative as to just what the damn file actually is. I can't stand being limited to only 8 characters and no spaces or special symbols (or even just the basic keyboard-listed ones!).

[View Quote] > still... having file names like "My Name Is Dorothy.doc" looks bad, but
> "mynameis.doc" allready looks better...
>
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Jul 27, 2001, 4:34am

Sounds like a hardware problem you should be addressing to Elsa...

[View Quote] > My computer locks up when stereo mode is enabled. Any way I could fix this?
> I'm using it with my Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 Pro 64mb ddr....

Jul 30, 2001, 4:22am

Max Payne is pretty good; reminds me of Kingpin but without the excessive swearing and location-specific body damage, but MP's environments are MUCH more interactive and its graphics blow away Kingpin (and most other current games): http://tnlc.com/eep/compare/mentions.html#maxpayne for more info.

[View Quote] > I am bored, I just got paid and have money to spend, I'm looking for a good
> game to buy or a good application.. something of that nature.. it better be
> worth it too..

Jul 31, 2001, 2:22am

http://www.maxpayne.com/

[View Quote] > What's behind MP? Seems everyone is talking about it.. I never heard of it
> before.. is it like DE or something? Do you run around killing people or
> what?
>
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Jul 31, 2001, 7:21pm

Duh...all adding to the so-called "unique user count" as stated on the stats page (http://activeworlds.com/company/statistics.html). Helps to read my AW history page (http://tnlc.com/eep/aw/history.html), Kah...

[View Quote] > Hmmm... I went trough the lowest cit numbers and I found that a lot of them
> are named after character from Snow Crash, and lots of others are named
> after other known fiction characters, for example some from the X-Files.
> Also I saw that the names would be divided into 2 cits after eachother, so
> is this the work of the AWC?

Jul 31, 2001, 9:38pm

Dunno but I've had mine for years...

[View Quote] > you have a history page too???? how many ppl actually have that?
>
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Aug 6, 2001, 12:42am

Dude, BBSes are so early 1990s. They're, like, obsolete d00d. I dropped them as soon as the Web became popular in the mid-90s. I stopped running my "Star Trek: The Next Generation On-Line" BBS around the time TNG went off the air (I was SO pissed to hear it had been cancelled supposedly because the actors wanted more money). <sigh> Too bad Enterprise doesn't look that interesting either...Paramount REALLY fucked up when they cancelled TNG and put on Slop (Deep) Space Nine and Boringer--er, Voyager...and the TNG movies haven't been much to be interested about either. :/

[View Quote] > I was wondering if anyone on ActiveWorlds actually has a BBS system which
> allows us to telnet to?
>
> If any of you actually KNOW what one is? lol
>
> If you have one, please let me know :D

Aug 13, 2001, 12:55am

[from worldbuilders]

Um, so what? Life's tough; get a helmut. Quit being such a newbie putz and don't post off-topic in this newsgroup.

[View Quote] > Hi everyone. I will be posting in the Active Worlds Community News
> Group. Be sure to read it. The post is important and made to help people
> as well as notify people to be aware of scams and bad people who have
> hurt others.

Aug 13, 2001, 9:19pm

Uh, news.activeworlds.com isn't a Usenet server since it's not on Usenet. duh

[View Quote] > Lanezeri,
>
>
> Just because he doesn't post here much doesn't make him a newbie at all,
> news.activeworlds.com isn't the only Usenet server out there...
>
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Aug 16, 2001, 8:53pm

Who cares? They're still crap...Compcrap!

Is it so hard for you to put a blank line between your reply text and quoted text??

[View Quote] > o_O Compaq reverse numbers their "computers" now? The 5000 is newer than the 7470?
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Sep 5, 2001, 3:05am

Of course you don't, newbie twit. Do you even know what a BLANK line is? It's a line without any text. Ever used a word processor? Ever used a text editor? Ever WRITTEN a letter with a pen? Ever take a graphics design class? Ever actually THINK before doing things? Hell, ever actually THINK at all? Didn't think so...perhaps you should start. You might just look like less of a fool then...but I doubt it. Suck filter, newbie.

[View Quote] > funti have no idea what the heck you are talking baout a line? whatever
> eep! lol
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Aug 20, 2001, 11:42pm

[View Quote] > Looks like 3.2 beta has begun.
>
> Does anyone know what criteria Roland used to pick his testers this round? It seems to be completely unrelated to pursuit of bug
> detection.
>
> Between the 3.0 open beta, 3.0 final, and 3.1 final, I've come across and informed Roland via email, telegram etc. of more bugs than
> the entire 3.2 testing crew is probably going to find between themselves.

Roland just wants "yes testers", it seems. Agent1 fits the criteria perfectly since he doesn't disagree with anyone and smiles all the time, as if mocking everything you say to him. Oh joy. Makes me want to smack his ass into next week it does...

> Among these: (The more annoying ones)

> The INCREDIBLY MASSIVE floating point errors at high coords in Alphaworld (Corrected in 3.1, so I got Facter to delete a few garbage
> obs Roland left behind while fixing it)

AW 3.1 still has MANY floating point errors. Just try moving (flying slowly shows it best) in a straight line at high coordinates. Avatars jig-jag and seesaw back and forth as if moving through invisible stairstep tubes or something.

> An incredibly obscure login bug that seems to be related to my two accounts ONLY
> And now the changing of icons after using AW for an extended period of time.

I get this sometimes, too, but not sure it's because of AW or what.

> Since there are now THREE rendering modes, why not get people willing to do THREE times the testing on all THREE rendering modes
> that know how to properly report bugs (Unlike Agent1 who has omitted his tech specs in his posts so far)

See above.

> Perhaps my exclusion has somthing to do with this:
> Immigration Officer: Warning: your citizenship expires in 4 days. To extend your citizenship for another year, press the Renew
> button in the toolbar.
>
> *shrug* If Roland asked, I'd have gladly given him the citnum of the account I'll be using in the interim between my renewals.

Oh, so you ARE renewing now?

Aug 21, 2001, 9:25am

The problem is that Roland doesn't even ask for these specs to begin with (not that he seems to know what to DO with the specs once he has them ANYWAY...). Standard quality assurance testing dictates that ALL system specs are known BEFORE testing even begins. Then if those specs are changed, no matter HOW slight, the CHANGED specs are included in the bug report.

Submitted bugs also need to be reproducible and EXACT occurance/setting (what was going on at the time of the bug). If a crash/hang occurs, the crash details should be posted along with any other debug info (especially if it's reproducable; then, in AW's case, the ini file "debug" section should be enabled and the dump included in the bug report).

Also, bug databases (Lotus Notes, etc) are used to track bugs, let other testers know what bugs have been found, fixed, etc). While AW 3.1's testing had a makeshift bug list (that had screwy formatting most of the time) it still didn't let testers update it with other things they found or whatever. The beta newsgroup is limited because it doesn't actually create a list of the bugs found; Roland (or whoever) still needs to manually make (and continually update) a list, which takes time away from actually FIXING bugs; hence the need for someone in charge of all that.

In short, AWC needs an actual test manager or "lead tester" that can manage all the testers and report to Roland (the "lead programmer"). This is STANDARD in the computer industry and which something AWC needs to learn how to do if they want to EFFECTIVELY and PROPERLY test AW.

This is yet another reason why I get so pissed at AWC's incompetence; they just don't know what they're doing...and it shows in their floundering stock price (still around $1) and continually slowly developing product: AW.

[View Quote] > They don't. Plus, I'd think that Myrth's
>
> "333 mhz
> 128 mb ram
> Rage LT Pro 2x"
>
> would not be preferable to someone that has a wide variety of hardware laying around to do nothing but test with *shrug*
>
> Also, in a bug report of any nature for Activeworlds, there are certain information you should ALWAYS include, and more depending on
> what it involves.
>
> -CPU make/model/clockspeed/special attributes (Overclocked, underclocked, overheated)
> -RAM count and breakdown to how many on each stick (if it's all on one you don't have to specify) and RAM speed (Normally PC100 for
> Intel, PC133 for later AMD)
> -Virtual memory settings
> -3d card and it's VRAM count and interface to motherboard (VSA, PCI, AGP, ISA, onboard) and if there are any, any special attributes
> to the card (overclocked, modified, uncooled)
> -DirectX version
> -3d card driver version
> -OPERATING SYSTEM (Jesus, we have people on AW running Win95, 95C, 98, 98Se, NT4, 2k, ME, and XP, Roland isn't a mind reader)
> -Any other running programs at the time, including systray programs and invisible TSR's (hit ctrl-alt-del for the list)

Aug 21, 2001, 6:11pm

Um, ever heard of sarcasm?

[View Quote] > Talk of harming Roland or anyone else is inappropriate in this newsgroup.
>
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Aug 23, 2001, 6:54pm

AW has already lost a LOT of important older citiens like Little Bull, Grover, Dataman, Rjinswand, Dean (Challagar), Spring Dew, etc, etc. AW's worldbuilding community has really gone to the shits in the past couple years because of it, too... :/

[View Quote] > We have perhaps 100-200 people that truly give a rats ass about the community and it's future. Inevitably, the community as a whole
> will grow as an infux of n00bs is stacked on top. However, the core of the community, people like Goboer King, ABP, Eep (Yes, he has
> his place, have any of you even met him inworld?), will continue to shrink. Take for example Xelag. We nearly lost him yesterday
> because of the actions of a little BRAT. These few core people will undoubtedly fulfill their purposes and simply dissapear from the
> light, or become so overwhelmed by the n00bs that they will simply vanish. We all have our limits.

Aug 24, 2001, 2:40am

-300a = -3000m

[View Quote] > don't worrk for some reason and it's also located -300a = 300 meters
> below ground lol

Aug 24, 2001, 7:02am

There aren't new worldbuilding citizens that communicate anywhere NEAR as much as we used to in the newsgroups and in-world.

[View Quote] > But there is always new citizens popping up in their places. I don't know if
> I can list the new up-and-comers but I think Goober King can, he usually has
> the best view over the community and what's going on. How about a list, GK?
> ;-)
>
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Aug 26, 2001, 11:26pm

It's still the old 3.0 beta one...

[View Quote] > For those of you that hate the new 3.1 splash screen, Basix converted the
> 3.0 beta splash screen to say 3.1 and removed 'beta'.
>
> It's at http://zionworld.virtualave.net/31splash.zip

Aug 26, 2001, 11:46pm

http://www.geocities.com/l00ber/3beta.zip for the correct one.

[View Quote] > It's still the old 3.0 beta one...
>
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Sep 1, 2001, 7:52pm

Fucking newbies...

[View Quote] > Maybe it is time to put this issue with Ryan to bed, I talked to
> Ryan last night, he tells me he 11 years old. I personally disagree with
> warez sites (I found out what they were only last night) but this is a child
> for goodness sake!!! has any one of us ever done anything wrong when we were
> kids? I interpret Ryan's 1st response to EEP's post as a childish way of
> defending his self. I saw his apology as a much more mature way to handle
> what he did wrong. I saw that anana's (whom I believe a decent human being)
> had mentioned cross posting. What the heck is that? And am I doing this
> also?
>
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Sep 1, 2001, 10:46pm

<chuckle> I have "people skills" with people I deem WORTHY enough to have people skills with, Donna. If you act like an incompetent twit, well, I have no patience for you. <shrug> Evolve and perhaps I'll think you're worth relating to.

[View Quote] > If you are allowed to talk like you do, then I will interpret what
> I believe your meaning is in your choice of words. Poor EEP, you just has
> no people skills at all :( so sad .. what a huge handicap for you.But I
> really do like to help people out so this is how I interpret your meaning to
> be.......
> "hello new people, I am irritated by your not knowing how to work this NG,
> please get someone to help you out" <shrugs> Donna (AKA now as
> EEPinterpretress)

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Sep 2, 2001, 1:29am

Oh please...what the HELL does an 11-year-old add to the community? What has Ryan added so far aside from off-topic crossposts and (most likely) a badly built (IF he's even built anything) house or something even less recognizable as anything of substance? Puh-LEAZE. If you don't know what I've added to this so-called "community", perhaps a trip to my AW website (http://tnlc.com/eep/aw/) will clue you in a bit, Miss Newbie.

[View Quote] > <Shrug> your opinion, eep is of no importance to me. I see it this
> way myself, You may know a lot more about AW than most people do, but how
> valuable are you really? What is your true worth to our community? . you
> said "I have "people skills" with people I deem WORTHY" My opinion is that
> you and a few others that are like you are keep new people from immigrating
> into our community with the rudeness you use by making fun of people when
> you see a weakness in them. so what is your worth to the community EEP?
> Minimal at best! EEp i look forward to the day that a NICE person with
> brains joins our community, or better yet, maybe rick (who I have always
> called Jeff for some reason), and JP will realize just what your true worth
> is and put a stop to your constant badgering and tormenting of the
> tourist's and new people!!!! EEp i ask you to please please leave the
> kids alone at least, a 11 or 12 year old does not have the maturity to deal
> with your demeaning, senseless chat.
> respectfully (as i can possibly feel at
> this moment) Donna
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Sep 2, 2001, 9:40am

Heh, dude, I've been in AW a LONG time (over 4 years) and HAVE had discussions with Rick, Roland, Shamus, HamFon, and even Protag (tho not many) about AW and its future. I filed a Better Business Bureau consumer complaint when Meta, Mars, and Atlantis didn't open when paid citizenship took effect because AWC PROMISED they would (they were opened about a month later). I've taken down my RW site in protest for being banned from AW simply for talking about GEL. I've emailed companies AWC has "teamed up with" in business relationships (as per their press releases) in order to clue them in to AWC's business practices and customer interaction (or lack thereof). What else...eh, just check my AW history page (http://tnlc.com/eep/aw/history.html).

I've done a LOT for being behind a computer, thank you. The point is: what has RYAN done for AW compared to me? Not much, if anything except caused a stir in these newsgroups by acting like an ignorant newbie kid. <shrug>

[View Quote] > Hmm... let's assess your supposed value to the community, shall we?
>
> 1. Created a website that contains vast amounts of information
> concerning modeling and RWX commands
> 2. Created (with the help of others) two very detailed, reality-based worlds
> 3. Avid contributor to newsgroup discussions and debates
>
> Now, is your website extremely helpful to those trying to learn the
> finer points of modeling? It is indeed. Are your worlds one of a kind
> and worthy of multiple CYs? I'd certainly say so.
>
> However, if these worlds were to suddenly disappear, and your website to
> go down, (as it did a few years ago) what exactly would the effect be?
> Would people be left scrambling, trying to fill the void you left
> behind? Would people be clamoring and petitioning to bring your works
> back? Frankly, I think the only thing people would miss would be your
> presence here in the NGs.
>
> The phrase "actions speak louder than words" comes to mind when I think
> of you, Eep, for you are merely a man of words, not action. Yes, your
> site and worlds have added to this community, but every time you have a
> gripe, every time you have some chip on your shoulder, you do nothing
> but complain. I have yet to see you see you actually act on your
> complaints in order to enact change.
>
> Don't like newbies posting in the NGs? Perhaps you could write up a
> NG-FAQ for people to read in order to learn what to do and not to do.
> Don't like how AWC runs things? Perhaps you could try dropping the
> attitude just long enough to actually converse with Rick and Co on a
> professional level and see how far you get. (You might be surprised) And
> I don't recall seeing you step up to the plate when the Union idea was
> getting tossed around...
>
> The fact is, until you start doing more than just complain, then your
> "value" to this community will continue to diminish until all that's
> left is a little gold statue that says "Eep: Can't live with him, Can't
> live without him"...
>
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Sep 2, 2001, 11:49am

Uh, where've YOU been lately, Ananas? There hasn't been much evolution, new ideas, or enthusiasm in AW for a while now...the newsgroups used to be a LOT more interesting, informative, and technical. But then a lot of good people left and they turned into shit with all the Juno users and other crap. There are FAR too many kids in AW and not enough SERIOUS people into worldbuilding and objectmaking--THAT is what's really keeping AW going: the hope that it will someday be worthy enough to make some REAL interactive entertainment with (i.e. games, and not the shit "games" AW current has; I mean action and action-adventure games et al equal to that of Tomb Raider, Trespasser, Half-Life, Thief, Deus Ex, No One Lives Forever, Max Payne, etc, etc). AW needs to actually be versatile enough to even BEGIN to create games like these.

Right now AW is still too "artsy" to do any REAL game development with it...and while game development is not the only possible use for AW, I believe it's the only real use that will ever get any return investment for AWC and world owners/builders. For example, people could pay for entry into game worlds since the world rights list can allow selective entry. Or everyone could enter but be restricted to certain areas ("demo" areas if you will) and a bot (blech) could control passage through certain points or something.

But before all that happens AW needs to add more gamelike features like true avatar/player character moves besides "walking" and "running" like jumping (among many others, but jumping alone would offer a lot more possibilities for environment interaction). Better physics (avatars need more weight so they don't bounce and bound down slopes/stairs), collision detection (avatars NEED to be able to ride things and "stick" to moving things without having to move to stay on things; avatars need to slide along vertical polygons instead of just "sticking" to them), being able to pick up and drop objects (not necessarily throw ala Thief, Deus Ex, or even Trespasser, but of course that would be great), etc, etc, etc.

AW has a LOT of potential, but with only one true programmer (Roland, but one more on the way in a couple weeks, supposedly), development is slow. Also, Rick and JP still don't seem like they know what to DO with AW. They've tried chatting and building (which work to a limited degree, but there needs to be more), e-commerce didn't pan out, their advertising model is flawed (see my past "subtle advertising" threads, et al), distance education isn't happening (probably because of the lack of interactivity--see gamelike features above), and what games AW DOES have aren't that complex and are fairly simple-minded (board/card games, some rather pathetic "RPGs", etc).

AW needs a marketing and development SHIFT towards something that has been proven to be a viable industry for the past 20 years or so: gaming. I shouldn't need to quote sales figures and all that crap, but, trust me, gaming is hot and it ain't going away ANY time soon. AW has the potential to really revolutionize how 3D games are created by means of the "multi-user level editor" model I see AW one day becoming (hopefully soon).

But, really, AW would be a LOT more than a simple game development tool; it would (and basically IS) a holodeck ala Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond. And if you've watched any of the Star Trek's starting with TNG, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager, you should be VERY aware of the potential holodecks can have. It's simply a matter of applying that 24th century "fantasy" to our 21st century REALITY...and making it happen. I see it happening. It WILL happen. It's just a matter of will AW BE the next step towards MAKING it happen.

[View Quote] > Freaking out new community members does NOT help AW
> very much. It will be a community of elderly people,
> some cobol freaks and some who always dream about the
> good old times, but no evolution, no new ideas and
> no enthusiasm anymore.
>
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Sep 2, 2001, 11:52am

I could have just as easily compared myself to Donna or practically anyone else in AW for that matter. All I'm saying (and trying to prove) is that I have done a DAMN lot for AW and it's so-called "community" over the years and would appreciate it if newbies took the time to learn the ropes before acting stupid like they OH SO OFTEN do. I don't care if the newbie is 10 or 100--they BETTER get on the up-and-up on things or they're gonna get shitkicked by me if they're lame enough.

[View Quote] > It's just that R y a n hasn't been in AW for 4 years, and he hasn't had TIME
> to do a lot for the community yet! You can't compare against him at all!
>
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Sep 3, 2001, 4:02am

Yo, idiots, stop CROSSPOSTING! God damn...

[View Quote] > well its twice as long try downloading 30 or 40 on
> a 28k modem and each text message can take up to
> 10 seconds for me almost a minute if its html
>
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Sep 3, 2001, 4:45am

Um, I expect you to pay attention and read people's posts (like Ananas where he EXPLICITLY mentions how newbies like you unknowningly, and mindlessly, reply to crossposts). Take responsibility and pay attention! Stop cluttering up the newsgroups with junk!

[View Quote] > stop complaining if you dont like crosposting that
> much just ignore crossposted threads you cant
> expect everyone to never reply and if they do
> never forget to change the newsgroups
>
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Sep 3, 2001, 5:28am

Well, I can see that you haven't evolved yet in here so it's back into the filter with you. And you seemed halfway respectable in AW...ah well.

[View Quote] > well like i said you can complain all you want but
> eheres always gonna be someone replying to a
> crosspost and i am not a newbie i knew i was
> replying to a crosspost im not stupid
>
> i see nothing wrong with repkying to a crosspost
> if a crosspost is posted its already there boohoo
>
> and if youre gonna flame me for this question then
> i dont know why im bothering but if i reply to a
> reply to a cross post wouldnt it only be visible
> to that newsgroup? on ns the group says
> general.discussion thats it
>
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Sep 5, 2001, 12:57am

Uh, so what? Whether or not Ryan (or anyone else in these newsgroups, for that matter) is a citizen of Dreamland Park (or any other universe) isn't the issue here, JFK2. If the little shit is going to participate in these newsgroups he needs to learn no to post off-topic (or at least post in the correct off-topic newsgroup: general.discussion). I tire of all the idiots in these newsgroups (and AW)...

[View Quote] > Actually Ryan has opened our eyes to Dreamland Park Universe as i'm
> doing now. BUT there is this sweetheart of a lady in Dreamland Park
> Universe by the name of ANNE... [She is the world owner where i helped
> to obtain the added avatar gestures for CY Awards world] and she said
> something... Why do the people of AW act so stupid towards those in
> dreamland Park when they try to post on the AW NGS and they have
> accounts in BOTH Universes or someone posts for them. Dreamland Park
> Universe still uses the same AW Browser that AW people use. And that is
> so true. And for those NOT informed people out there... Outerworlds
> Universe uses the SAME AW Browser as AW people use. So too does
> City4All, Galaxy Worlds Universe, Cybernet Universe, and the old
> Vectorscape Universe.
>
> "eep" <eep at tnlc.com> wrote in news:3B91A520.81910952 at tnlc.com:
>

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