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Jan 13, 2002, 5:50pm

> i wouldnt mind $5 a month but $10 a month is what a highly entertaining
> online game costs which AW is not

Very true. Some working people cannot afford $120 a year, but they can
afford $60 a year. Since AW hasn't bridged the gab between application and
game yet, they can't charge that much for something so little as this. I
doubt even 3.3 bridges that gap.

--Bowen--

Jan 13, 2002, 6:17pm

Gap, if that's what you were trying to point out. Thank you is two words.

--Bowen--

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Jan 13, 2002, 6:41pm

LoL well if you were correcting me then I would've had to correct you ;). I
don't think most of us want AW to be a game. That would just take away from
the ambience of it all. $5 a month is fine for most of us on a chat
program, because let's face it, that's mostly what AW is. Like a vamped up
AOL chatroom. That's all they're paying for $5 for the connection and $15
for the chatrooms.

--Bowen--

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Jan 13, 2002, 7:40pm

An "Interactive chat environment" describes it perfectly. As for the games,
that's entirely controlled by bots. And a bot in any program that allows it
can do the same things. :) You could play checkers in half life, or trivia.
Albeit pretty stupid, it could still be done.

--Bowen--

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Jan 13, 2002, 7:43pm

> That's what I meant ... childish because you assumed everyone is
halfwitted
> enough to pick up on people's grammar/spelling and childish because you
felt
> the need to retaliate in that way.

Much like you are in defending your point of view? I saw no reason to quote
me in the previos post other then to point out "gab." Especially with the
added "Ummm no thankyou!!!"

> All too indicative of the level of maturity and impetuous posting in this
> newsgroup. For someone who (I seem to remember) is in college majoring in
a
> mature subject, I would have expected more.

Your memory is flawed, I'm not in college yet, but I am taking college
courses. It's easy to get confused with that. I never directly said I was
in college. You're assumption was just as bad as mine.

--Bowen--

Jan 13, 2002, 9:22pm

> I have a question, Fox. What operating system are you running? ;)

You mean which one does he use to run activeworlds? ;) I know for a fact
that Fox runs both Win2k and Linux (debian I think). He uses Windows
because some of the stuff he needs to do on a daily basis only work on
windows. :) But he never did buy any of the software which means he didn't
support the company.

--Bowen--

Jan 14, 2002, 2:06am

> I don't understand this. What do you expect already successful people to
aim
> for? If everyone is to be a grunt, we'll all end up living in one of the
> remaining communist states.

Well communism isn't the problem, the ideas behind it were great. The
implementation of it was very bad. Especially when it turned totalitarian.

> The bigger the company, the more they do for the world. Where the hell
would
> the world be if there was no ambition? Imagine the giants - where do you
> think any of us would be without the "greed" of IBM, AT&T, Microsoft et
al?
> Its their research into and experimentation with new technologies that
> enables you and me to reap the benefits through a better standard of
living.
> What would be the point of a company researching things like Virtual
Reality
> or life-saving drugs if they cannot recoup the extensive costs incurred in
> doing so through appropriate pricing when it comes to market? No-one would
> do it and everyone suffers. The problem is that you have to have the cash
to
> be able to invest in these things.

True, true. There's also the companies that don't require us to pay for
their products. NASA being one. Without NASA there would be no Microsoft
or IBM. :). Velcro being one of the products that we got out of it,
microprocessors is another, there's a whole bunch of junk that the space
race brought the public. Sure we pay taxes, but not directly to them :).
Your desktop is more powerful then all of the computers that ran NASA in the
70's (useless knowledge day).

> Also, I think it has to be understood that companies aren't there to
provide
> people with a job ... looking at it (very) simply, people are paid purely
> for doing something for the company. They are not paid because they have a
> right to a job or because they are entitled to a living. There is no sense
> in damaging a company by retaining unwanted or inappropriately skilled
> staff.

Hmm, if they're not, who would work without security that their job won't be
taken from them? Some are payed under contract so that could be a right to
the job? Yes some companies have that unwanted/incompetant staff, that's
what Burger King is for! LoL

> BTW ... glad to see we're back on the Microsoft subject ... I thought that
> was done to death already *yawn*.

I've got the steak, who's got the silver bullets? :)

--Bowen--

Jan 14, 2002, 2:44am

> This may be a point of some contention, but it's really clear to me that
the
> reason communism failed, while the principle of it that you've mentioned
> being a good idea, is because of the human condition. We're possessive by
> nature, folks. Supporting statement being: Why do we have to teach
> children to share? =)

Well we teach them so everyone has an equal share. Maybe some of these big
companies need that taught to them again, that they're not the be all end
all of the world. If they collapses a lot of us will not care, for a couple
of reasons. One being the mistreatment of the customers. The other being
that other smaller companies can arrise and offer better service for a
fraction of the price. That's an economic principle.. but I'm not to sure,
my economics teacher likes to drone on about her life so it's hard to stay
focused :).

--Bowen--

Jan 13, 2002, 5:14pm

> NO! Keep those metaphors coming!
>
> We need metaphors, they are like the flakes of show that collect in the
> corner of our window panes, framing our view of the world.
>
> Or something.

LoL it's harder for non-native English speakers to understand. It's better
to use small metaphor's that make sense, then to use abstract ones to prove
a point that no one understood in the first place.

--Bowen--

Jan 13, 2002, 5:41pm

I think he wants the browser to be stand-alone like a webbrowser, and worlds
would be standalone from a server. So you'd type the IP into a teleport to
and you could go to the world? It's too hard to decipher what it is exactly
he wants.

--Bowen--

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Jan 26, 2002, 8:26pm

Sounds like a company's trying to cover up their illegal operations. Good
ol' FBI shows them who's boss :)

--Bowen--

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Jan 24, 2002, 2:29pm

He's just a shareholder, it doesn't mean he wants anything to do with their
products. Maybe I own stock with female sanition products, doesn't mean I
use them personally :). They're just good investments LoL.

--Bowen--

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Jan 25, 2002, 3:10pm

LOL yeah, not like women are just going to stop using those products. So
it's safe to say it's a good investment ;). But as for Michael Gardner, I
don't know.

--Bowen--

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Jan 26, 2002, 2:20am

LoL doesn't use what? ;)

--Bowen--

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Jan 26, 2002, 2:42am

Oh right, my bad, I realized that after I read mine again. LOL Maybe he
does, who knows what's happening.

--Bowen--

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Jan 26, 2002, 9:27pm

Hey try to use this aworld.ini instead of the one you have now.

--Bowen--

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Jan 27, 2002, 4:25pm

Maybe it freezes because it's loading up the windows ;) it takes a little
while even for me to load them up on my 733 MHz machine. Give it a minute
or two, it might work.

--Bowen--

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Jan 27, 2002, 7:24pm

Is that it? I could've sworn it was the other guy.

--Bowen--

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Feb 3, 2002, 2:18am

LoL yeah and I shall be struck dead where I stand. Nope.. nothing yet. :)

--Bowen--

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Feb 6, 2002, 11:24pm

Reinstall it, it shouldn't happen. See if that fixes it..

--Bowen--

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Jun 7, 2002, 10:30pm

I've heard that 3.4 will be out soon, yes. It has some nice features too :)
One of which is equally as impressive as the terrain ;)

--Bowen--

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Jun 7, 2002, 11:53pm

Hehe, I'll tell you those walls around the world should be removed in 3.4..
and something really nice I've been wanting for a while is being added. (or
so they say) :)

--Bowen--

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Jun 8, 2002, 6:22pm

> 1. Ya is there a URL?

None that I know of.

> 2. what wall? what world?

All worlds, walls around the max building area.

> 3. which fetaure have u been waiting for that is being added?

Read the wishlist, you'll see it. Most likely recently.

> 4. lol

What are you LoL-ing about funny guy??? :P

--Bowen--

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Jun 9, 2002, 1:01am

Even though I didn't know her, I'm sorry this has happened. My condolences
to her friends in family.

--Bowen--

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Jun 15, 2002, 11:14am

None of it is messed up for me with my uber video card with 4.4 mb's of ram!

--Bowen--

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Jun 11, 2002, 12:38am

Lmao, nice one. Btw, it looks like I'm staying with bowen as the name I'm
posting with now ;) <~~ can't find the shift key.

--Bowen--

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Jun 11, 2002, 6:37pm

I still think they're double chinned smileys.

--Bowen--

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Jun 17, 2002, 12:52pm

How do you know he's a kid? Adults do this just as much as kids do.

--Bowen--

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Jun 23, 2002, 5:42pm

At least is putting it mildly. If eep had been here for this.. you would've
definately seen a crap storm hit.

--Bowen--

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Jun 24, 2002, 5:21pm

wth? If you didn't understand what Wonderland meant by the context of your
statement, you have some serious problems. Some that need to be addressed
if you think it had to do with child porn.

--Bowen--

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