Huge Innovator of Computers Speaking in SL!
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Hiro Pendragon
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11-17-2005 00:10
http://slfuturesalon.blogs.com/second_life_future_salon/2005/11/next_sl_future_.htmlJerry Paffendorf never ceases to amaze me at the big names he and his contacts are able to bring in for his monthly SL Future Salons. If you are at all interested in the history of computers, this is a guest you absolutely should not miss! On Wednesday, November 30th, Democracy Island plays host to Doug Engelbart, founder of the Bootstrap Institute, creator of the mouse and co-creator of hypertext among many other accomplishments. This guy and the team he worked with had more foresight about computers and networking in 1968 than most people had in 1988. And we have the opportunity to attend and ask his perspective on what may be in store for the next 30 years. Mark your calendars! p.s. I think I may ask him why he thinks it took Apple Computers 37 years to finally endorse more than one button on his mouse invention. 
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PetGirl Bergman
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11-17-2005 00:14
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.arsA History of the GUI Douglas Engelbart in 1968 Groups starting 1937... My I am born 1977.. he he..
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Moopf Murray
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11-17-2005 00:37
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Hiro Pendragon
bye bye f0rums!
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11-17-2005 00:41
Extraordinary non-profit events have always been an exception to posting rules, and allowed in General. Examples: - SLebrity auction announcement - SLCC - Relay for Life - Game Dev Competitions - Katrina Relief efforts - Chinatown - Ed Wood Film Festival - etc, etc.
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Eggy Lippmann
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11-17-2005 01:25
From: Hiro Pendragon http://slfuturesalon.blogs.com/second_life_future_salon/2005/11/next_sl_future_.htmlJerry Paffendorf never ceases to amaze me at the big names he and his contacts are able to bring in for his monthly SL Future Salons. If you are at all interested in the history of computers, this is a guest you absolutely should not miss! On Wednesday, November 30th, Democracy Island plays host to Doug Engelbart, founder of the Bootstrap Institute, creator of the mouse and co-creator of hypertext among many other accomplishments. This guy and the team he worked with had more foresight about computers and networking in 1968 than most people had in 1988. And we have the opportunity to attend and ask his perspective on what may be in store for the next 30 years. Mark your calendars! p.s. I think I may ask him why he thinks it took Apple Computers 37 years to finally endorse more than one button on his mouse invention. Oh my fucking god  I studied all about him back in 1999 or so, when I took a course on Hypermedia systems. I even wrote a paper about him! I had no idea the man was still alive, let alone coming to Second Life! |
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Moopf Murray
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11-17-2005 01:27
From: Hiro Pendragon Extraordinary non-profit events have always been an exception to posting rules, and allowed in General.
Examples:
- SLebrity auction announcement
- SLCC
- Relay for Life
- Game Dev Competitions
- Katrina Relief efforts
- Chinatown
- Ed Wood Film Festival
- etc, etc. Well extraordinary is kind of in the eye of the beholder. I can totally understand charity things (SLebrity, SLCC, Relay for Life, Katrina) being allowed and things that the Lindens are involved in (SLCC, Game Dev). But the last two on your list, I don't see the validity, and I'd put your posting in with those. In fact I've been suprised that the Ed Wood one hasn't been moved. Just done a search on Chinatown and none of the announcements threads ended up in General (they may have been moved, but they appear to have either started or ended up in....guess where now kids....Special Attractions!) I guess we can all blur the lines when it's of personal import, eh. |
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Candide LeMay
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11-17-2005 01:38
From: Eggy Lippmann Oh my fucking god I studied all about him back in 1999 or so, when I took a course on Hypermedia systems. I even wrote a paper about him! I had no idea the man was still alive, let alone coming to Second Life! Eggy, to quote the future salon site: "Doug will be at the Bay Area Future Salon that night presenting on Large Scale Collective IQ and we'll stream the video live into Second Life." So no, I don't think he's coming to SL as an avatar. |
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Hiro Pendragon
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11-17-2005 02:43
From: Moopf Murray
Just done a search on Chinatown and none of the announcements threads ended up in General (they may have been moved, but they appear to have either started or ended up in....guess where now kids....Special Attractions!) And plastered all over the SL webpage, New World Notes, and Linden announcements. From: someone I guess we can all blur the lines when it's of personal import, eh. That remains to be proven; this speaker is ... well, look at some of the other replies.
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Moopf Murray
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11-17-2005 02:51
From: Hiro Pendragon And plastered all over the SL webpage, New World Notes, and Linden announcements. Sorry, I thought we were taking about the General forum here, not other parts of the SL site. Not sure of the relevance of this. From: Hiro Pendragon That remains to be proven; this speaker is ... well, look at some of the other replies. I know exactly who the speaker is and that it's a video stream and he's not "appearing" directly in Second Life. It would be more extraordinary if he was doing this directly in Second Life, but even then it's still a Special Attractions posting. Again, it's personal import *shrug* |
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Martin Magpie
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11-17-2005 03:07
hmmm so is he speaking from within SL or just being streamed in via the media player like any old movie?
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Katt Kongo
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11-17-2005 03:55
From: Hiro Pendragon - technically, it really doesn't belong in the forum anyway. 
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Garnet Psaltery
Walking on the Moon
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11-17-2005 04:22
What time is this event?
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Khamon Fate
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11-17-2005 05:08
From: Garnet Psaltery What time is this event? If it's a video stream, there's no reason to attend an event. They'll just post the URL and let people watch it on their own land. Of course if it's being streamed, it will also be captured and posted on the Future Salon website so we can watch it in our own time. We don't need "events" for this kind of thing anymore. That's kind of Future Salon's whole point.
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Garnet Psaltery
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11-17-2005 11:48
Yes, but what time is it, this non-event?
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