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Friday Thread: The Buzz Words That Are Cool
Lias Leandros
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08-14-2009 10:05
I like to see when folks throw out those crazy Buzz Words. Most of which I have no idea what they mean - but I will nod my head in agreement and even use the phrase myself. What buzzy phrases do you hear/use that sound so cool?

I like "AVATAR MESH" - no idea what it is - why it is and why anyone wants it. But I want it too because it sounds good to me.
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Lindal Kidd
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08-14-2009 10:16
The avatar mesh is the polygons that make up your avatar. I've never looked at myself with Wireframe mode enabled, but that might show you the mesh directly.

The clothing layers are a part of the avatar mesh, and you can see those, laid out flat, if you look at one of the clothing layer templates.

There are lots of other cool buzzwords.

Throughput.
Bandwidth.
Rez
Ruthed
ghosted
capped
sculpty
prim drift
lindened
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08-14-2009 10:21
Bitchcakes.
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Lyla Tunwarm
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08-14-2009 10:31
From: someone

Main Entry: buzz·word
Pronunciation: \ˈbəz-ˌwərd\
Function: noun
Date: 1946
1 : an important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen
2 : a voguish word or phrase —called also buzz phrase


"lindened" is probably the only word I see yet that I would consider a buzzword the others sound more like jargon. All the others one's have significant meaning even if you don't know what it is.

I think a buzzword would be like: That was an "enormous" waste of time.

A buzzword phrase maybe: "READ MY LIPS" no new taxes.

Things that attract extra attention to a normal sentence.

I guess the buzzword would be dependant on what the context is also.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzword
Maggie McArdle
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08-14-2009 10:44
1 : an important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen.

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Boone Renfold
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08-14-2009 10:59
"slurl"..... asked my wife to send me a "slurl" of one side of the island I own ,she asked how do I get the "slurl" ....I said I use the "slurl generator" in my inventory of which she has no access to, so I have to wait till I get to my PC grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr away one week from sl hope she kept the houses tidy and no bums sleeping on the beach...lmao I love her
Brieanne Bomazi
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08-14-2009 11:02
From: Boone Renfold
"slurl"..... asked my wife to send me a "slurl" of one side of the island I own ,she asked how do I get the "slurl" ....I said I use the "slurl generator" in my inventory of which she has no access to, so I have to wait till I get to my PC grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr away one week from sl hope she kept the houses tidy and no bums sleeping on the beach...lmao I love her


Um.. easy fix for the slurl... stand where ever you want it made, open the map and click... copy slurl to clipboard and then paste it where ever you want it. Why use a scripted object?


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Argent Stonecutter
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Bingo!
08-14-2009 11:09
Why doesn't SL empower us to disintermediate the web browser from world vector resolution?
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Boone Renfold
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08-14-2009 11:09
YAY!!!!!!!!! Thanks for got about that !!!!!!
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08-14-2009 11:28
From: Lindal Kidd
The avatar mesh is the polygons that make up your avatar. I've never looked at myself with Wireframe mode enabled, but that might show you the mesh directly...
The templates by Chip and Robin contain tracings of all the polygon lines in the mesh. If you're wearing the template as a skin/clothing item, you're getting a representation of the wireframe you avatar is made up of. (^_^)

Most people asking for an improved mesh simply want their avatars to look nice or want the ability to be shorter/taller without all the squish, stretch, overlap, lump, ledge issues. (^_^)y
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08-14-2009 12:07
splines and NURBS.
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08-14-2009 12:11
Oh yeh, reticulate them splines, baby.
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08-14-2009 12:13
From: Argent Stonecutter
Oh yeh, reticulate them splines, baby.

:eek: sounds like a nasty knee injury or something.
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08-14-2009 12:30
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Lias Leandros
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08-16-2009 21:10
I have to add these tweets from M and Philip Linden at SLCC 2009, Classic Buzzing

To scale large, we need: More decentraliztion of services. But we have “right napkin drawings” (P.L)

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08-16-2009 21:13
Lag
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Daffynition time!
08-16-2009 21:28
Lag: Lag is an an abbreviation for Lagenorhynchus, a genus of small dolphins including the Dusky Dolphin and the pretty White Sided Dolphin. Nobody, not even marine biologists, can pronounce Lagenorhynchus with a straight face more than once a day, so they refer to these mammals as "lags".
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Gabriele Graves
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08-16-2009 21:59
I feel so discombobulated by it all :p
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Gabriele Graves
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08-16-2009 22:12
I get worried if I hear:

"Transmogrification Sequence Complete"
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Airt Pexington
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08-16-2009 22:12
Lag also refers to the time spent in prison. Apt I think.