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Big Data Is Watching

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:33:00 -0500

Big Data Is Watching

Schrödinger’s cat

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:27:47 -0500

Schrödinger’s cat

autopsi-art: :)

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:41:12 -0400

autopsi-art:

:)

Spooky Gothic chapel

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:44:02 -0400

Spooky Gothic chapel

Hey, did you know Oktoberfest in Germany runs from Saturday,...

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:13:48 -0400

Hey, did you know Oktoberfest in Germany runs from Saturday, September 22, 2012, and ends Sunday, October 7, 2012? Well, ya do now.

Gangnam Style. Everyone’s doing it.

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:51:15 -0400

Gangnam Style. Everyone’s doing it.

the-imaginary-boys: Coincidence? I think not..

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:58:17 -0400

the-imaginary-boys:

Coincidence? I think not..

SL needs to junk the review system. What do you think?

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:44:00 -0400

I am rather cheesed at receiving yet another unjustified one-star review on one of my best products. In my case, the feedback was because the customer “bought the item for a large sim” and thought the item “looked bigger”, even though the ACTUAL DIMENSIONS for the build were clearly indicated in the listing description. I know other merchants have had similar issues, and several others have reported receiving “bad” reviews for Marketplace non-delivery issues and other technical matters that are totally out of control of the merchant. I have flagged the review as inappropriate content, but this just underscores my perpetual gripe about the current state of the SL Marketplace review system, which I have enumerated below:

1. Customers can (and often do) leave unwarranted bad reviews for reasons that are not related to the quality of the product itself.

2. Reviews are one of the first things potential customers see when shopping. Review stars show up in the search listings, and original-posting review comments appear in the item listing itself.

3. The only immediate way for a merchant to defend an unjustly-reviewed item is to post a reply to the comment. However, these replies are buried in the interface and require additional clicks to view.

4. Unwarranted bad reviews damage the reputation and business of hard-working merchants because busy customers will often pass over an item as soon as they see a low number of stars rather than reading details. Thus, a customer’s experience can (and often is) unfairly flavored by these unjustified “bad” reviews.

5. When an item receives a review, the review appears on the listing and in search immediately. However, the merchant does not receive a notification that a review has been posted. The only way a merchant knows that a review for one of their items has been posted is by periodically scanning their SL Marketplace listings.

My conclusion: the current state of the SL Marketplace reviews is counter-productive to an efficient customer and merchant experience. It adds computing overhead to the already busy Marketplace servers, as well as the labor and maintenance required by SL in order to police the flagged reviews. Moreover, If the purpose of reviews is to provide feedback to the merchant, but the merchant does not even recieve notification that feedback has occurred, how is this a productive thing? Thus, until something better can be put into place it would be in everyone’s better interest if the SL Marketplace review system would just go away.

What are your thoughts? Feel free to post replies here or in the SL Forums.

luminousenchiladas: Olympics vs Mars

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:18:13 -0400

luminousenchiladas:

Olympics vs Mars

Photo

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:55:02 -0400

@gridcache thanks — yes its an original work. It weighs in at 115 prims.

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:58:27 -0400

@gridcache thanks — yes its an original work. It weighs in at 115 prims.

Looks great!

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:58:25 -0400

Might you think about sharing them on gridcache? It’s a new community website dedicated to virtual world development. me.gridcache.net

Photo

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:47:59 -0400

Gothic Church

Sun, 06 May 2012 02:59:30 -0400

Gothic Church

8bitfuture: Algorithm creates vector art from pixels. An...

Sat, 05 May 2012 10:17:48 -0400

8bitfuture:

Algorithm creates vector art from pixels.

An algorithm created by Microsoft researchers upscales 8-bit graphics and converts it into vector graphics, able to be upscaled to any size.

The algorithm identifies pixel-level details to accurately shade the new image — but more importantly, the algorithm can create smooth, curved contour lines from only-connected-on-the-diagonal single pixels.

Check out their full gallery here.

Photo

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:53:47 -0400

8bitfuture: ‘Faster than light’ neutrinos may have been a...

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:06:31 -0500

8bitfuture:

‘Faster than light’ neutrinos may have been a technical glitch.

Last year scientists at CERN made news claiming to have found neutrinos travelling at superluminal speeds, arriving 60 nanoseconds earlier than expected when sent between two laboratories.

Now a source close to the experiment has claimed that the result was because of faulty wiring.

The report in Science Insider said the “60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos’ flight and an electronic card in a computer. “

“After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed,” it added.

“Since this time is subtracted from the overall time of flight, it appears to explain the early arrival of the neutrinos. New data, however, will be needed to confirm this hypothesis.”

Photo

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:52:06 -0500

woolandwax: Hands across the water… The HANDS series, filmed in...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:33:42 -0500

woolandwax:

Hands across the water…

The HANDS series, filmed in Ireland in the late 70’s and 80’s, captures the final years of traditional rural and urban life in Ireland. Inspired by a sense of urgency to record crafts in their natural surroundings before they disappeared completely, film makers David Shaw Smith and his wife Sally, travelled the length and breadth of Ireland and it’s islands, to document the series of films on traditional Irish crafts and lifestyles, where the emphasis is on the skills of human hands rather than on machines.

This film of boat builder and former eel fisherman, Jimmy Furey (parts 2 and 3 linked below), shows the construction of a Shannon One Design, a wooden clinker-built, eighteen-foot racing dinghy. SOD’s are traditionally built on the shores of Loughs Derg and Ree in Ireland and are unique to the Shannon river.

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XELPt_x08Os

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPNePCOZSZo&feature=related

Irish lighthouse

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:59:00 -0500

Irish lighthouse