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jim1 // User Search
jim1 // User Search
Apr 10, 2005, 11:06pm
Skepticism of websites is understandable.
A more thorough way to verify the credibility of a website is - not to
just go there - but to use a search engine to find what other websites
reference it. Then read what those websites say about it. Then, above
all, judge for yourself. :)
Jim1
P.S. The longer this thread lasts the more clicks the website gets. You
can click up to once a day! Thanks again, Callidus!
http://www.aquaplastics.org
[View Quote]Gnu32 wrote:
> I've been to the site, "pretty animated pictures" , "reasons why its a
> good cause", still not convinced its actually generating money. Its
> clear what its about.
> ubermonkey wrote:
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May 20, 2005, 7:09pm
Could someone please post the list of words that cause ejection at
AlphaWorlds GZ?
TIA
May 30, 2005, 2:02pm
That's very nice! Nice natural landscaping and water effects. I especially
love those tbtree objects.
If you sink a copy of the red and brown trees underground so that only the
very top is visible, it makes a nice pile of fallen leaves underneath. (Of
course, you wouldn't want to do that under green trees.) "Create sound
forest1.wav" always works well on trees too.
At 255N 172E, to your right, I made what we used to call a "traffic light
tree" containing red, yellow and green leaves.
(We need bird and squirrel objects.)
Jim1
[View Quote]"Marnie" <buzzard554 at fastmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> SW Comit wrote:
> I've got quite a big build, but I don't call it a town. Start at 1717s
> 6023e
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Jun 9, 2005, 9:42pm
Hey, thanks DeltaPHC! I can use this.
I often need to orient an avatar very accurately.
I first orient a long thin panel like pp31t_h.rwx to the exact heading then
sight along its thin edge.
In mouse mode the bullseye brightens when directly over the thin edge.
With "activate cursor on" in the panel, all I have to do then is click out
of mouse mode and fly away!
Thanks!
Jim1
[View Quote]"deltaphc" <deltaphc at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> While looking around aworld.exe (build 567) in a hex editor, I noticed a
> section of plain text containing the names of all of the action triggers
> and commands (create, activate, move, rotate, etc). They all looked pretty
> normal, except for one. The word "cursor" was among them, so naturally, I
> decided to play around with that.
>
> I found out that the Cursor command turns on/off your mousr cursor. For
> example, I made an object with "activate cursor on" in the Action field.
> When in mouse move mode, I clicked it, and it took me out of mouse mode.
>
> But this doesn't seem to work the other way around. "activate cursor off"
> does not put you into mouse mode if you're not in it.
>
> ...and while I'm at it, I found a couple other interesting things. I saw
> the words "seq" and "sdone" among the block of triggers and actions. Any
> AWI programmers care to elaborate on those? They seem to have no effect.
>
> =)
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> - DeltaPHC
> Citizen 355508
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Jun 14, 2005, 8:21pm
[View Quote]"TheMask" <ricky at whaletech.net> wrote in message
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> [my shift key wont work, going to buy a new keyboard today, so text may be
> a bit weird]
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I had the same problem. Get one of those compressed air cans at Radio Shack
and blast the crumbs out from under the keys.
> i am going to consider on maybe hosting a wiki, just for fun.. i will look
> into it. i seen that wikipedia is using mediawiki, so of course it would
> be using that, so it stays intact with the same type of thing as
> wikipedia.
I thought someone in one of these AW newsgroups already started an
AW-specific Wiki not long ago.
Sorry I lost the link. Please repost!
Jim1
Jun 15, 2005, 12:03am
Are you sure? I may be wrong but I seem to remember being surprised that it
was independent of Wiki proper. I lost the link due to a hard drive crash.
Sorry.
Jim1
[View Quote]"SW Chris" <chrisw at ksu.edu> wrote in message
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> No it wasn't a Wiki, it was just an entry in wikipedia.
>
> Anyways I've always been a fan of pmwiki. Anyone can edit it if they have
> the password, or you can let anyone edit it and it saves backups of the
> page so if someone vandals it you can just restore the previous page and
> ban the ip that vandaled it.
>
> Chris
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> "Jim1" <JimMoore2 at Cox.net> wrote in message
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Jun 15, 2005, 8:26pm
I guess I was thinking of http://activeworlds.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page
but it looks like that hasn't evolved at all.
Actually, I don't understand why that was even created when
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds already exists.
[View Quote]"Jim1" <JimMoore2 at Cox.net> wrote in message
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> Are you sure? I may be wrong but I seem to remember being surprised that
> it was independent of Wiki proper. I lost the link due to a hard drive
> crash. Sorry.
>
> Jim1
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> "SW Chris" <chrisw at ksu.edu> wrote in message
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Jun 30, 2005, 8:26pm
[View Quote]"pelican" <stout2 at verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Many times I have wanted to just walk though or fly through a world with
> someone but I cant chat and move comfortably at the same time. Usually you
> will find me at a complete halt when I chat. All movement stops (except
> for
> the 'wait' gesture). I would like to suggest a feature called "persistent
> move" whereby pressing a key combination, i.e. [CTRL]+'m', you would begin
> moving forward at a predefined speed 'hands free' of the computer
> keyboard.
> Thus, 2 people could chat while their walk progresses. (Long walks on a
> beach with your other half for example) Maybe make the left / right arrow
> keys still available so one could turn and continue heading in the new
> direction. THEN, avatars like automobiles, and helicopters all of a sudden
> take on a new angle. AW Raceway Park with formula 1's all vying for
> position. The many 'horse with rider' avatars...a mountain horseback ride
> for a group where everyone can still discuss things.....I think it would
> be
> a significant enhancement. A simple re-press of the key combination would
> turn the 'persistent move' back off again and the user would stop. I don't
> think it should be that difficult to add on.
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>
I actually found myself moving in this way right after a teleport the other
day. Only problem was I couldn't stop. It was just a forward glide at
about walking speed. Turning, etc. worked normally. Maybe the feature's
already there and I triggered it accidentally.
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Jul 1, 2005, 7:10pm
Thanks, SW Comit. That is a very useful tip!
Here's another that surprised some folks: Click in the chat window and hold
Ctrl while scrolling the middle mouse button to make the type larger or
smaller.
Anyone know any other little tricks?
Jim1
[View Quote]"SW Comit" <sam at usamedia.tv> wrote in message
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> You can activate "cruise control", as I like too call it, by press
> forward+ctrl+alt and releasing at the exact same time. It might take a
> few times to get it, but it works, I do it all the time. Its a bug I
> guess, but it has its uses :D
>
> - Com
>
> "pelican" <stout2 at verizon.net> wrote in message
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Jul 1, 2005, 9:17pm
I tend to use precise movement normally (Options/Settings.../General/Precise
Movement) but I see your point. Too bad numpad 5 doesn't slow down avatar
rotation. Precise rotation has been a major problem for me. I can do it
now without much trial and error but it's still labour intensive.
Hehe. You can lay down and half-bury yourself. How gruesome. That will be
handy next Halloween! Thanks, SW Comit!
Hey, here's a question. Occasionally I'll find myself in an "Al Gore"
mode -- stiff as a board. The whole avatar moves around at ground level but
doesn't show any walking movements (swinging arms, etc.). Restarting the
browser fixes it of course but does anyone know a simpler way to fix/avoid
it? (I'm not sure what causes it.)
[View Quote]"SW Comit" <sam at usamedia.tv> wrote in message
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> Hold numpad 5 down while moving for precision movement. Useful for taking
> screenshots. Also stops you instantly if your floating around, or stuck
> in a warp movement (or want to abort it).
>
> Also useful for laying down - float up a hair, and click any gesture to
> get out of the float sequence mode. After the gesture is done you'll be
> standing in the air. Then lay down by looking up or down. Then hold
> shift and move towards the ground (no shift = will cause you to land and
> stand upright again). Hold numpad 5 down for percision :D
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> "Jim1" <JimMoore2 at Cox.net> wrote in message
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Jul 17, 2005, 12:33am
I just wanted to express my appreciation to SW Comit for announcing this
feature in the newsgroups. I've been using it ever since and it is *very*
useful.
Moving in reverse (so you can view what's been rendered versus what hasn't
yet been rendered), it's convenient for hands-free exploring. You can eat a
sandwich with two hands while watching the world fly by!
Thanks, SW Comit!
Jim1
[View Quote]"SW Comit" <sam at usamedia.tv> wrote in message
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> You can activate "cruise control", as I like too call it, by press
> forward+ctrl+alt and releasing at the exact same time. It might take a
> few times to get it, but it works, I do it all the time. Its a bug I
> guess, but it has its uses :D
>
> - Com
>
> "pelican" <stout2 at verizon.net> wrote in message
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Jul 15, 2005, 8:50pm
Not a parable, but one of my favorite Deep Thoughts:
"If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my
holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy
said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started
laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's
right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody
would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering
iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink." --
Jack Handey
[View Quote]"Shalimar" <shallie at charter.net> wrote in message
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>I don't happen to remember any nice little parables like these, but I sure
> am enjoying them! :)) Anyone have more?
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> "CoLor" <mensa at execpc.com> wrote in message
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Jul 22, 2005, 9:53pm
[View Quote]"Andras" <andras at andras.net> wrote in message
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> Imagine wrote:
>
> <snip good explanations>
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>
> Hi All,
>
> There are some of us who have a different language so those words are not
> offensive to us. Interestingly enough I never saw any hungarian using any
> bad words in AW (and trust me - if we start to swear - we can go on for 35
> minutes without repeating a single word we used before!).
> We learned something in our culture: Not the word counts but the intention
> the person who uses it. It can be a simple emotional expression or can be
> a really bad cussing - it depends on the circumstances.
>
> Thank you for your excellent post!
>
> --
> Andras
> "It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)
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"So, what makes a word bad? Only the person using the word."
Also, perhaps, the person interpreting, or deliberately misinterpreting, the
word.
I recall once using the word "peanut" in a absolutely innocent context.
Someone contrived offence to that particular word and threatened to tell the
authorities. Shocked that anyone could possibly interpret such an innocent
word as something vulgar, I began to understand that those who object to
language sometimes have an ulterior motive. Contriving offences can be a
means of enlisting authorities in an arbitrary, mean-spirited assault.
Thankfully, that strategy is transparent to mature adults.
With all due respect to parents trying to ease their children into this
modern and unfortunately vulgar world, please understand that there are
those who pretend to side with you, not because they care about your
children, but because they're desperate to find fault with others.
You'd rarely find me using bad words, even in X-rated environments among
adults, simply because they carry little meaning. They carry the most
meaning within the minds of those who wish to contrive offence.
With Respect,
Jim1
Jul 24, 2005, 2:44pm
"I don't know how many people are left with citnums in the <= 5-digit range,
but ..."
This list looks helpful: http://68.144.33.148/citizens.html .
[View Quote]"ubermonkey" <ubermonkey at wcalliance.com> wrote in message
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> I'm personally going to suggest a structure like so:
>
> 1) Nominate judges.
> 2) Elect judges by popular vote.
> 3) Judge review and voting on all award nominees.
> 4) Popular review and voting on all award nominees (before the results of
> #3 are available).
> 5) Give out 3 grand prizes, which could technically all go to the same
> entry: Community's Choice (winner of the popular vote), Judges Choice
> (winner of the judges' vote), and of course the actual ... whatever, the
> first prize, whatever it's officially known as (overall winner by total
> points).
>
> Of course, judge votes are worth more points than popular votes (the
> relative scaling would need some thought), and only the real winner by
> points gets the actual CY award (and prize? Assuming there are prizes),
> however the other two get "official" recognition (unless one entry gets
> both or all three spots, which is highly possible), which is probably what
> most people want out of the CY's anyway: a chance to have their work seen
> by the community.
>
> If it seemed appropriate, you could go back and do a revote with the top 5
> entries from the first voting cycle, though I don't honestly know if
> people would rather have the voting process be less or more involved
> (national statistics say 1/3 of the people who register to vote don't
> actually bother to show up for presidential elections -- why did you
> register? O_O).
>
> Judges would have to be the types of people who would have no reason to be
> biased, so it can't be anyone from a specific AW community, and it should
> probably not be anyone who's particularly active in AW development these
> days; It would be best if we could get a lot of semi-retired AW cits who
> know the territory but no longer have a direct interest in what's going
> on. I don't know how many people are left with citnums in the <= 5-digit
> range, but that's probably about who you'd be looking for (Builderz comes
> to mind immediately, citnums aside, as well as quite a few people who are
> likely no longer here).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> "Strike Rapier" <markyr at gmail.com> wrote in message
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Aug 4, 2005, 9:26pm
Wow. Tip of the hat to Disembodied. That was very big of you!
Jim1
[View Quote]"Disembodied" <cyrus at rexfenris.com> wrote in message
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> You're definitely right, chris... I let my worst enemy, a bad mood,
> deflect my better judgement :( I am ashamed that I said such cruel things
> about GSK's movie... though I certainly wouldn't like to assume he's a
> newbie. There's Always room for improvement and I always used to pride
> myself on believing that Everybody can do better if they try. I lost sight
> of that and quite frankly this has already been made into one of the
> flashbacks amid all the others in the slideshow of Wrong Things I've Done.
>
> I'm terribly sorry, GSK. You did the best you could. and the effort ALONE
> is more than respectable ^_^
> "SW Chris" <chrisw10 at gmail.com> wrote in message
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Aug 6, 2005, 4:21pm
Something must be down. My bots just stopped working.
[View Quote]"Ciena" <nikona at comcast.net> wrote in message
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> or is it just my puter?
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Aug 6, 2005, 4:23pm
Oh yeah. And now the browser won't even connect. Oh, well.
[View Quote]"Ciena" <nikona at comcast.net> wrote in message
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> or is it just my puter?
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Aug 6, 2005, 4:46pm
Hey! Maybe they're installing that new 4.1 version! YeeHAW!
[View Quote]"Ciena" <nikona at comcast.net> wrote in message
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> thanx :)
> "Jim1" <JimMoore2 at Cox.net> wrote in message
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Aug 7, 2005, 12:09am
Does anyone have the Google Earth Lat/Long?
[View Quote]"GC" <will2003 at comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Their Headquarters is on Parker Street in Newburyport, MA
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>
> :p
>
> -GC
> 296894
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> "Heu" <heu at alusion-fr.com> wrote in message
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Sep 3, 2005, 12:13am
Cut our losses. Reverse the flood. Save us from more destruction.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01279059.htm
[View Quote]"Strike Rapier" <markyr at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "CoLor" <mensa at execpc.com> wrote in message
> news:4318ED58.29479D3C at execpc.com...
> <snip>
>
> As nice as the sentiment is, if you want to do something; ensure someone
> like Bush never gets in again, that way that person wont half the funding
> to the flood protection schemes again.
>
> --
> - Mark Randall
> http://zetech.swehli.com
>
> "Those people that think they know everything are a great annoyance to
> those of us who do"
> Isaac Asimov
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