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Sep 25, 2002, 7:40pm

The Active World's Video 4 video has come out out, it is about 3mb download.
You can click on http://awtaz.net/airtv/videos/aw4-384.wmv to view it
directly, or go to the website at http://www.aw31.netfirms.com for release
notes, downloadable banners, play all 4 active world's videos. Later on I
will have different formats like real and mpg

Sep 25, 2002, 8:08pm

wow, awesome...so much more smooth too, great job. One comment though, you
spelled Active Worlds with an apostrophe -- doesn't that show possession or
compound active world is? I'd leave it at Activeworlds :)

maki awmaki.com
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Sep 25, 2002, 8:21pm

Its the Active World's Video, its the Active World that's taking possession
of the video. lol flashback to the 5th grade



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Sep 25, 2002, 8:23pm

[View Quote] Active Worlds' Video would be correct then?

--Bowen--

Sep 25, 2002, 8:57pm

Authorized V4 Mirror now up:

http://www.iceflare.net/aw/v4.wmv

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Brock - 308723
AW 3.4 Build: 433
Brock at iceflare.net

Sep 25, 2002, 9:34pm

Only if you were signifying that the worlds within activeworlds had
posession. Since you are showing that it is the ActiveWorlds program (only
one), it is Active World's.

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Sep 25, 2002, 9:55pm

If you people really want to get technical, it should be ActiveWorlds's,
since there's no such thing as ActiveWorld.

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Goober King
Leave the semantics to the professionals...
robrod at prism.net

Sep 25, 2002, 9:56pm

I of course have no clue about what would be correct but I find this video
very nice


"bowen" <thisguyrules at 7k2.4mg.com> a écrit
news:3d92377c$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

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Sep 25, 2002, 11:03pm

Very nice, I must say you got some talent at doing this :)

So in support I contribute a mirror lol :)
http://www.darkbirdie.com/aw/aw4-384.wmv

keep up the good work

-Mod

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Sep 25, 2002, 11:09pm

LOL, look at this. :-P
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html
That website says that there should not be an apostrophe showing possession
unless it is a person. In this case, it should be described as "ActiveWorlds
Video 4". :-P

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Sep 26, 2002, 12:04am

The video could have some improvements, but thats like all of us, we make
things that can't be changed, and then we say "not bad".


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Sep 26, 2002, 12:54am

Wow, that video really looked nice. I wish the blurrier areas were quite not
as blurry, but I know you were working withing constraints. Really liked it
though :) Good work!

Sep 26, 2002, 1:34am

Very, very nice. Now if you could only get AWI to run it as a TV ad...
;)

-Builderz

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Sep 26, 2002, 4:12am

Havent got far yet, lol, I havent even time to catch my breath!


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Sep 26, 2002, 9:03am

No no no, Goob..... Any possesive ending in the letter "s" is always
punctuated with just the apostrophe at the end of the word ( ActiveWorlds' )
ActiveWorlds's is incorrect.. that would be considered a conjunction of (
ActiveWorlds is ), which also would be incorrect btw.

And any noun, (person, place or thing) which "ActiveWorlds" IS, is correctly
used AS a possesive....

* thinks..... english teacher would be shocked I actually REMEMBER any of
this crap* ;O)

JB


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Sep 26, 2002, 9:08am

Terrific job Pine !!! :O) Tres' Cool !
A high res version of that with some of the greater AW worlds' stuff, plus
some of the more elaborately built worlds would make a pretty neat
commercial !

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Sep 26, 2002, 9:43am

Not sure what your English teacher is smoking but both ActiveWorlds's
and ActiveWorlds' would be correct. If a noun ends in "s", you have the
option of using the second "s" or not. Not using the "s" might be more
proper, but no one's going to kill you if you do.

At any rate, it shouldn't have been used at all, since there was no
"Video" in the actual video; it just said "ActiveWorld's" and nothing
else. There's no way to tell what "ActiveWorld" (which isn't even a
word) was possessing, so it shouldn't have been there in the first place.

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Goober King
See previous signature...
robrod at prism.net

Sep 26, 2002, 9:54am

Great work once again, pineriver! I know you're probably not going to be
handing this to AWI any time soon, but if you ever plan to make a
serious commercial out of this, I'd like to offer a couple suggestions:

- I don't think anyone's going to go ga-ga over Chess and Checkers. If
you want to mention them, just mention games in general and include
other stuff like Bingo and AWGames.
- Be sure to mention more community aspects, like some of the
AWCommunity orgs and events. Gotta let people know that there's more to
this place than just worlds and building! :)

Other than that, keep up the good work! :)

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Goober King
You paying attention, AWI?! This could actually HELP you!!
robrod at prism.net

Sep 26, 2002, 11:46am

This is making me think of when my English teacher drilled it into my head that
"fishes" was not the correct term to describe more than one fish. It seems both are
accepted and I'm completely lost as to what's right.

--Bowen--

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Sep 26, 2002, 2:06pm

Erm, "fishes" isn't correct either. The plural of "fish" is "fish", just
like the plural of "moose" is "moose", not "mooses". Anyone who says
"fishes" is either trying to be funny or failed English. :P

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Goober King
Thinking that AWUniv could use an English course...
robrod at prism.net

Sep 26, 2002, 2:09pm

Go check a dictionary, it's there. Want me to scan in the page?

--Bowen--

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Sep 26, 2002, 2:12pm

Taken from dictionary.com and from the American heritage dictionary on my lap:

fish Pronunciation Key (fsh)
n. pl. fish or fish·es ( <~~~~ fishes is the plural of fish... we were lied to)
Any of numerous cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates of the superclass Pisces,
characteristically having fins, gills, and a streamlined body.

--Bowen--

Sep 26, 2002, 2:17pm

Must be a British thing then. They're the ones who always have the
messed up words. ;P

(Note to all anal Brits: I *know* American English is derived from
British English. It's called a "joke", go look it up.)

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Goober King
Maybe Brits spell it "jouke"...
robrod at prism.net

Sep 26, 2002, 2:22pm

[View Quote] LoL :). Why's it in our dictionaries?? *burns british fishes* Apparently it's the
plural for finch too, and finch falls under the same rule, you have many finch. I
guess everything that's like that is pluralized to fishes. The moose plural will now
be refered to as fishes, marklar (south park thing)?

--Bowen--

Sep 26, 2002, 2:39pm

Nice. Very high production value I think. It would make a nice commercial.

The Good:
- Sped up footage removed a lot of the jerkiness of mouse-controlled camera
movements.
- Used more than one transition effect.
- Nice choice of music

The Needs Improvement
- Stick with one font. Nothing says professional like a standard font for
use throughout your commercial, if indeed that was what you were going for.
- I've never really been a fan of the glass breaking transition, probably
because I've never seen it on TV. Again that might go back to
professionalism, but I really don't know. To each his own. :)
- If you're trying to market AW, people probably aren't going to go nuts
over Chess and Checkers, especially since Internet-enabled versions of them
have come with the last few generations of Windows. That part struck me as
kinda cheesy. Focus more on community oriented things. The Cy Awards could
get some airtime when things get straightened out over there. Chat of
course is an all important staple of the active worlds experience, just like
building.
- Your water may be mistaken by potential customers as something that you
can see in Active Worlds itself.

The Bad and the Ugly
- Nothing!


For any other promotional videos, I can give you a teleport to a Titanic
recreation an a recreation of Hyrule (which is the one I built). And of
course who can forget New York? :)

All in all a good effort.

SW Chris
Self-proclaimed film critic and Rama Mageesh of Guru :D

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Sep 26, 2002, 2:44pm

I agree completely, the chess and checkers thing weirded me out too. :)

--Bowen--

Sep 26, 2002, 3:16pm

>_< I posted my siggy wrong.

SW Chris
Self-annointed Rama Mageesh of Film Critics everywhere.

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Sep 26, 2002, 4:39pm

It the video was owned by Active Worlds then it should be "The Active
Worlds' video".
If the video instead is about Active Worlds: "The Active Worlds video"...

In my humble opinion.

Rocambole
(born French, was taught English by Norwegian teachers...)



"goober king" <gooberking at utn.cjb.net> skrev i melding
news:3D92ECC0.8050700 at utn.cjb.net...
> Not sure what your English teacher is smoking but both ActiveWorlds's
> and ActiveWorlds' would be correct. If a noun ends in "s", you have the
> option of using the second "s" or not. Not using the "s" might be more
> proper, but no one's going to kill you if you do.

Sep 26, 2002, 5:42pm

"goober king" <gooberking at utn.cjb.net> wrote in
news:3D92ECC0.8050700 at utn.cjb.net:

> Not sure what your English teacher is smoking but both ActiveWorlds's
> and ActiveWorlds' would be correct. If a noun ends in "s", you have
> the option of using the second "s" or not. Not using the "s" might be
> more proper, but no one's going to kill you if you do.

The way I know it, you have only the apostrophe when nouns (except names)
end in "s". When it's a name, you *always* have apostrophy-s, even if the
name ends in "s".

KAH

Sep 26, 2002, 6:56pm

ummmmm I don't know why we really care about this ownership stuff... at the
end of the video is says "Active World's <next line> See what you've been
missing" -- now, I don't see how that's showing ownership of any worlds, any
videos, or anything. I'd leave it at Activeworlds or even just activeworlds,
since it's saying to come see the program you've been missing, which is
activeworlds.

maki awmaki.com
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