What I been sayin'

I guess you don't believe me, Enabran. But it's the truth. And it is never a matter of typing an extra two and a half words, as I work on contract, with a certain number of articles a year, at a certain price. That price works out to approximately $4 a word.

coco

P.S. Haha - just think of all the money you guys owe me! Just look at my post count! rofl

heheheh


anyway... cocoa-- my three point post -- did that make sense? has this issue been clarified for you enough?

Yes, you have Dnate, and I didn't mean you. You'll notice that I generally start off pretty mild-mannered, too.

And considering all factors. Note, for instance, in another thread, where I suggest that the 30% crash factor probably isn't as bad as it sounds, since it probably includes many people trying one time to play with a sub-par system, even though they know they can't, and then crashing.

coco

Yeah, I could definitely see myself consulting until I decided on a really killer business plan or career path. Which is not to say that I don't like what I'm doing now -- I love it, but I'm way too career-minded not to be looking at a much more lucrative future, probably based on what I'm already learning.

Also, damn, talk about stockpiling frequent flyer miles!

Oops - did my usual trick of replying to a posting at the beginning of the thread not realising it went on for a further eight pages.

Lousy analogy. I am not in your field.

Let's say a neurosurgeon was asking about SL. Would you treat him like crap, tell him he was an idiot, and all that, because he didn't know what "client"meant, and he was trying to understand?

Or would you treat him with respect?

That same respect should be given not to just him, but to the waitress at the local diner, or ANYONE.

Knowledge isn't something you use to make yourself feel superior to those without it; else it becomes not only useless, but obsolete, as there are others willing to share theirs.

coco

Depends. Does this hypothetical Neurosurgeon constantly whine and repeat the same questions over and over until they get the answer they obviously wanted from the beginning?

I honestly believe if ppl logged on to another world/game/platform they would see the "professional" differences.

I beleive it is abundantly clear that the 8 million dollar investment could of been spent more wisely. Professional support for one.

Mar

The analogy has nothing to do with my field. It's about establishing credibility and not relying on the crutch of a framed piece of paper. If you want to be taken seriously, back your argument with facts. Don't they teach that in Writing School?

Also, you're not really one to be talking about lousy analogies today.

Yes, it did. And that was kind of what I have been saying, about TSO. What I was originally saying is pretty much what Martin just said.

And you are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO RIGHT about me getting sidetracked!

I'm post-it-noting that to the foremost top area of my brain and gonna try to remember it!

And to that end, I will shuffle off now to pay rl bills. Thanks for the discussion, such as it sometimes was, y'all.

coco

She knew her shit well enough to charge you a months worth of your salary too Chicks rule!

LOL

Mar

Thanks Coco

Mar

I have to agree with Cocoanut, even though I loathe her dick whipping posts. Why does a discussion of this topic include painting her as an idiot? She may not be the most techinically savvy person, but so what? While I often disagree with her, even strongly, she does not need to constantly have her intelligence demeaned. No one deserves that, yet some people seem to take sport in doing so to a variety of people in the forums.

That said, it is important that if you are going to take a position like "They should not be working on LindeX while other stuff is broken", you should understand the development process enough to know if that is a valid statement to make. In this case, it wasn't. That, however, does not make Cocoanut stupid, it makes her ill-informed.

What have we learned today, folks?

When you have neither facts nor experience on your side, argue with your 25-year-old piece of framed parchment.

This is very true. I cannot say enough bad things about Linden Lab's support department, though again, it seems to be a resource issue, along with them keeping one person who shall remain nameless who is the most condescending jackass I have ever dealt with as a customer of any company.

i was hoping they haven't spent all that money yet... the road is long and we have miles to go... but given the infrastructure they have to maintain and their growing size, it will probably go quite quickly. I heard a rumor they did another round after the 8 but haven't bothered to investigate.

You've pretty much answered your own question. It's one thing to lack information and to seek some background as you form an opinion. It's quite another to thrust an opinion out while being obviously ill-informed, and then try to defend that opinion with the authority of "I'M RIGHT AND I DON'T NEED TO KNOW WHY" arguments.

Knowing the knowledge that you lack is so important. Maybe that's something you forget as you age.

I don't automatically make sport of someone for what I might consider being "stupid".
I make fun of sanctimonious people by employing the issue that seems to most tweak their buttons.

In Cocoa's case, I find her self-righteousnous so amusing and her fear that she comes across as less than intelligent an intoxicating elixir.

For the record, I don't actually think of Cocoa as stupid. Far from it.

What, worse than some of the people who have been posting in this thread?

I seriosly must be playing a different version :/

Yes, I'm not paying $300 a month to anyone in this thread. Well, I am paying an undisclosed amount to Kendra, but that is irrelevant.

It is amazing how vastly different people's experiences can be. I experienced some lag and some jumpiness when trying to walk, but other than that, I have not had much of a problem in 1.7 at all.

Two ageist remarks, Enabran. You're gettin kinda desperate.

coco

It is very strange. I have some friends that have so much trouble with 1.7 that they can hardly move, and most of them have far better computers than I do. I keep pestering them with questions about their specs and settings, hoping to find some connection, but haven't found anything yet. Very weird.

Dude, WTF is your problem?

You are absolutely _berating_ Coco because she not tech savvy. There is no reason why someone who is pretty much just a user of SL to know that the software installed on the PC or Mac is the "client". Most people just call it the SL "program"



How incredibly condescending and quite rude as well.

The ONLY reason she mentioned her accomplishments is because of a condescending comment about "grunting" being as effective as "talking" (or whatever the exact quote. She wasn't waving it around as some sort of attention whoring.

Perhaps you think she's stupid, I don't know. But that's no excuse for being.

A USER of SL doesn't need to know even the most basic "workings" as you call it. All they need to know is they install the "program" and log into SL.

Coco has been really open about her lack of technical knowledge and has seem to be genuninely interested in learning more about the big picture "workings" of SL.

Even if she's not really "getting it" (and I'm not saying she isn't), there's no reason to give her a hard time.