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May 13, 2001, 6:47pm

I like the computer expert one myself :)

May 13, 2001, 6:43pm

Slam!

May 14, 2001, 6:37pm

*strange mummy's curse-ish music plays, there is a rattle, and a loud
BEWARE!*

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May 19, 2001, 1:15am

Oh yeah, the water? I think we had a problem at comit's pumping plant and
some of those darned radioactive chemicals leaked out of Server Island
again. You forgot to tell everyone that my brain sometimes gets all big and
buff and causes me to have big periods of creativity in which I spam the
wishlist NGs with ideas...

and this one is too long to "quote."


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My two cents,
Captain MAD Mike

Deleted it me O_O
What comit says that O_O
SW City lingo me O_O
Overuses SW City lingo and the O_O me O_O

May 20, 2001, 12:59am

At the factor tribe camp, where NG survivor players Syntax, Nornny, KAH,
Ananas, and other people live, there is a flamethrower. And this
flamethrower (as Syntax says) belongs to Nornny. Now, this flamethrower is
ON, and thus is a danger to the enviroment of the Syntax Estates forest, as
the flamethrower rests directly on the grass and is no more than 2 meters
away from nearby trees. A wildfire could decimate SW City and bring about
the end of AW as we know it!


--
CMM
"Crazy to the gluon!"

Jun 4, 2001, 7:24pm

No, wing, this happens to me too. I guess sometimes OE just really really
messed up (I bet the actual outlook doesn't mess up, its just this is the
free-er version of a Microsoft program). I like that idea of the memorial
though.
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Jun 4, 2001, 7:25pm

Man I wish someone made a program where when your comp says "_____ error
########" you can just copy and paste and it will give you, in
easy-to-understand English, what that error means.
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Jun 4, 2001, 7:17pm

Good god marcus...we've heard it. Lets see...1 man is going up against
999999999999999999999999999 (don't give me greif about that number, its an
exaggeration but it just shows how many there are) porno sites on the net.
Dude, is it AW's INTENT to share porno? No. In fact, as far as I know most
people on AW just pictures for non-porno uses (well, at least in AW's real
towns like SW City, Rosewood, etc.). But some users chose to do that. This
is almost like the Napster case. In my eyes, Napster was created to allow
anyone to share any music, and the courts beat them up for the copyright
stuff but they changed so they wouldn't get taken off the net. Even though
they still fight back I guess I could say it was NOT their INTENTION to
"pirate" copyrighted music, thats what the users did.
Hell I'll go even broader. Was the Internet created to share porno? No,
it was created to share INFORMATION. But some wierd person decided to share
some naked pictures of his girlfriend on it.

Key phrase here: "IT WAS NOT AW'S INTENTION TO SHARE PORNO." And besides, AW
is what we could call a "small company," as in it doesn't really have
offices all over the globe, and big company-like stuff. Its a company,
operating out of Newburyport, MA, with servers in Seattle. We're not talking
about Microsoft here, they could probably afford to screen out all the porno
sites on the internet for all I know (but probably not because the internet
is quite big). So dude, just drop it.


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-CMM

Jul 5, 2001, 12:31am

*brag* 295187, just on the end of the 29#### citnums, about 2 years old
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Jul 5, 2001, 12:33am

aaaaaaaaah comimt, you stealer, thats my name (first used in Crazily Insane
Emu Drive in CSWC)
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Jul 14, 2001, 12:49am

"an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

and obviously you haven't listened to the 1 million other posts that caused
uproar from HTML posting. Eep has his way of showing someone not to do
something by doing it I guess, if thats how he chooses to get the message
out to not post in HTML then so be it. Do you think you're the God-sent Soul
Who Will Reclaim The "Crumbling" Newsgroup or something?


:P

Aug 1, 2001, 2:47pm

Bleh the whole thing about the world pricing is wrong, the cheapest goes to
10nsew and has 5 people, get an extra 5 people in there for only....$50
extra a year! Thats only $10 a person folks, what a STEAL!
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Aug 1, 2001, 2:38pm

Bleh, we all know that this is just a guilt trick to make us feel sad for
bashing enzo and the rest of the AW management because they ignore their
home customers in favor of the corporate customers who have more money, yeah
so I guess since I'm only paying for E N Z O to sleep in his chair all day
I'm no much better than an ant to them or something...

Aug 1, 2001, 2:39pm

Aaaaaah, I think aw explorer = hired by AW to try to brainwash us into their
beleifs.......
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Aug 7, 2001, 2:12am

random that
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Aug 10, 2001, 6:52pm

The voting is way unfair, citizens can just be brainwashed or be biased to
vote for "x." i.e. pokemon lovers voting for a tourist-shanty
pokemon-related thing in some category with a much better build because the
shanty involves something they *gulp* love. Plus theres the whole stuffing
thing, creating tourists, multi e-mail addys. The Award Should Be Given
Through Using RELIABLE Judges!



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My two cents,
Captain MAD Mike

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Aug 10, 2001, 6:32pm

Yes we would probably pick B, but not flat out advertising...I kinda like to
have more of a "personal" level to it (ooo look at Mr. Advertising Exec over
here, hehe)...I've done it at AWGZ before (Bleh the last thing we need is
the people at AWGate to come to an event at SW City, hehe). But yeah,
sometimes the AW Universes "law enforcement" can be a little annoying
*cough*g.e.t.*cough*


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My two cents,
Captain MAD Mike
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Aug 10, 2001, 6:27pm

O_O
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Oct 20, 2001, 1:39am

Well at least after a month of being wihtout a computer, AW's newsgroups are
still the same :D
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Oct 20, 2001, 1:44am

Well just to keep this off-topic (I'm feeling mean O_O) That is scary.
Microsoft is evil, and now I'll say Madonna has moved from the "Don't Care"
list to the "Evil" list


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-Captain MAD Mike

Jekyl and Hyde...or Android?
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Oct 30, 2001, 6:41pm

Maine needs some tech companies. Maybe we can get old retired men who are
rich (my neighbor has a 5000 square foot house for crying out loud) to band
together and raise the $1 million AW is worth so we can get some competent
management in. But I guess we could keep Roland since he actually takes time
(plus he could at least HELP with the programming since he's been doing it
for a while) to at least LISTEN to the community. E N Z O just listens to
anyone who offers him a breifcase full of money. Guess us Mainers should
snatch up AW before Micro$oft does and uses all the worlds to advertise
Winblows XP.

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-Captain MAD Mike

Jekyl and Hyde...or Android?
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Mar 19, 2002, 7:31pm

Haaaaaalelujah!
THANK YOU! That is exactly what I've been waitint for someone to hear...now
we all need to tell AWC to try this approach, I'd like to see Comit hang
around another year :)


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Captain MAD Mike
-Governor, PC Addict, Odd Man

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Feb 13, 2003, 8:32pm

SW Chris already mentioned some pretty good arguments, but here goes anyhow.

No matter what you do, there are people who like having ________ changed,
and those who don't. I myself loved it when AW had the periodic "night
modes," because I find that nighttime settings look pretty cool. That big
brown mountain backdrop in AlphaWorld can just get, well, dull after being
on 24/7 for more than 3 years straight. I've been a citizen for 4 years (and
about 5 days today), with 3 of those years being centered in alphaworld
itself. That aside, I've found that most of the people *I* know are FOR
changes in AW. Theres a few differences in the changes that could be done to
AW and those you outlined in your post.

Firstly, yes changing the look of AW does affect everyone, (any world
settings change does really), and some will like it and some will not.
However I don't really understand how a simple background change, or change
to much better-looking skyboxes, could really make too many people angry (I
personally just want to see something else besides those same brown
mountains all the time).

Your second example, turning on the fog with 1m vis......well..... why would
you do that? I think most people would be very angry at that move (of
course, some probably wouldn't). After all, AlphaWorld is a building world,
and you can't build if you can only see 1 meter in front of you. That is
just, well, dumb.

Yes, there are problems with move and rotate commands, but aren't the
encroachment problems being fixed in 3.4 anyways? But until then, like Chris
said, AWTeen hasn't had many problems with move/rotate related vandalism.
Besides, there IS the GET team, and the last time I checked their JOB was to
delete vandalism in AW. The benefits outweigh the problems, though. Firstly,
smart builders cover their land, and all one has to do is just cover a
little more land to push move/rotate vandalism out of their visibility (if
theres an object that moves into someone's house at 80m, vis can be set to
70m). And in instances where covering more land isn't possible (like towns),
then the GET can be brought in and with a few mouse clicks the object is
deleted. But with move and rotate, we can create more and do more with AW
than without the commands. I personally have seen VERY creative uses of move
and rotate in AW to create interactive builds like games that don't need a
bot to be played.

I understand the problem of data storage, however. But you say that its
getting hard to store and back up the database? Was AW's cell data limit
always set to Normal, and has Normal always been the same amount of data? If
so, then wouldn't you all known how large the database could become at the
very beginning, and planned accordingly? I've never actually ran a server
like those required for Active Worlds-related applications, but it just
seems like something that could be planned for.

Most importantly, AlphaWorld is a good world for people to see. Tourists
should be allowed in, because many buildings are in AlphaWorld and so they
can see what can be made in Active Worlds, and not just view it as a 3d chat
room called "AWGate." And AlphaWorld does need to be given the new commands,
during the period of time where all the infamous move/rotate exploits were
found, I made some builds that I thought were really cool due to what I
could do with the move and rotate commands (working clocks is one example
that comes to mind).

Bottom line? I beleive most of AlphaWorld's community today is in favor of
having the features like 3-axis rotation and the move/rotate commands be
allowed.
-Captain MAD Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "e n z o" <enzo at activeworlds.com>
Newsgroups: community
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: question? (deserves another)


> If we turn off the panorama a effectively change the entire look and feel
of
> Alpha, it affects EVERYONE
>
> If we turn on fog and limit vis to 1 meter, it affects EVERYONE
>
> If we replace the panorama with clouds that move... it affects EVERYONE
>
> If I don't use create move but you do and your house sneaks up on me ...
it
> affects EVERYONE
>
> If the database grows to a size that is impossible to back up (it is
already
> to large to run mapper) ... it affects EVERYONE
>
>
> Try to put a tad more thought into this discussion if you want it to be
> productive?
>
>
> E
>
>
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Feb 13, 2003, 8:32pm

Not sure why exactly having your video rendering capabilities stressed a lot
would cause a disco. Like you I use cable so I can't really test this, but I
do remember that with my 800Mhz machine and its Radeon 7200 (2 year old
video card, is that what you mean by recent?) I could see fogged worlds just
fine. My initial guess is that maybe the CPU is being used so much that it
somehow drops the information that hte modem needs for processing...but then
why would that only affect modems, and not network cards or sound cards.
Have you checked if there was anything in common with the people who got
crashes upon entering your world? Did they use the same ISP? (well, if its
only a handful of people, they could all be on the same ISP...)

Did you ask if they have the latest drivers for their video cards? Sometimes
updating those can solve major problems.

-Captain MAD Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "screb" <paul_zelf at hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: community
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: disconnected when fog enabled


> Who knows what is going on when ppl on a 56k modem get disconnected when
> they enter certain worlds. This happens in the new worlds that enable fog.
> Some of the visitors in my world have that problem and tell me it happens
in
> more worlds...
> Now I can not test this myself since I am on cable. The weird thing is
that
> u would expect the puter to crasch if it could not handle it, but that
does
> not happen. Its the telephone connection that gets lost. (sometimes right
> away, sometimes after about 2 minutes...)
>
> The ppl I am talking about have 800mhz machines or up and use recent 3D
> acceleration cards....
>
> Hope there is hope for these ppl... plzzzz let me know if u know the
> solution.
>
> screb
>
>

Feb 13, 2003, 9:45pm

Does he have the latest drivers from nvidia?


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Jun 5, 2003, 8:30pm

Yes! I think all AW needs is just some advertising and maybe more people
would join as cits. I've NEVER seen an ad for AW on a site, but I bet that
if some more people (people other than those who hear about it through
word-of-mouth) found out about it, we'd get a couple more cits, and more
cits means more moolah for AWI, which means (hopefully) things get better.

-CMM

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Jun 6, 2003, 7:16pm

*pats Linux Mandrake 9.1 box*

-CMM

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Jun 16, 2003, 5:12am

OK, so we were all told that AWI would give us a feature vote for new
alphaworld features, right? Well, its been quite a few months (over 3-4 at
LEAST). Where is it, AWI?

I think that 3-axis rotate is what AlphaWorld needs. That sounds weird, yes,
but it REALLY unlocks some potential for great builds. I have an example
that I posted up in the SW City forums. There are images, though, so
dial-uppers beware.
http://swcity.skywalkeronline.net/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=826

-CMM

Jun 16, 2003, 3:00pm

Exactly. Plus the fact that AWI has SAID that they'd do this, and as of yet
they haven't come through.

-CMM

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Jun 16, 2003, 8:01pm

Well theres always the street signs....those'll do in a pinch :D

-CMM

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