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Affordances in virtual worlds

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:26:42 GMT

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I recently attended the 3DTLC conference, as I reported before. Chuck Hamilton presented on his (IBM’s) take on affordances on virtual worlds. Given that I’ve opined before, I asked for more detail on their take, and he was kind enough to forward to me their definitions. I like what they’ve done, but it led me to try to refine what I see as some confounding (they actually separate several of their 10 into two separate ones), and try to capture what I think are core, what can be enabled, and what then arise from those capabilities.

By being active, you can also enable practice opportunities such as simulations, scenarios, and games. If agency includes not just interaction, but creation, and you have social, you can have co-creation (one of the most exciting opportunities for informal learning). The persistence of your activity creates the opportunity to capture traces for reflection, e.g. ‘after-action review’.

Add Privacy to Facebook

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:05:29 GMT

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Clip Source: digg.com

1. Add a new group. (I call mine "Lockdown")
2. Place all "sensitive" people in your Lockdown group.

3. Go to "Privacy" Section and update security of EVERY item. Use the DropDownList next to each item to select "Customize" and then add the Lockdown group name to the "Except these people" area.

I recommend you create a another test account on Facebook and place this test user in your Lockdown group so you can test the security settings to confirm that they are working.

Fixing Flash problem on firefox

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:54:05 GMT

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Clip Source: news.cnet.com

He, I found a great solution for this problem.
To update or install. Download only plugin (Firefox) and update it by Running
C:\Win....\Macromed\NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe. It will update both of the flash players or install if the activeX is not installed.

how to use poser to create custom animations

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:26:56 GMT

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Clip Source: wiki.secondlife.com

you will want to download the SL avatar model files. These models can be used to generate more accurate animations for upload into SL. You can download the models from: https://secondlife.com/community/avatar.php Installation instructions are in the zipped file.

After you install the SL avatar figures in Poser you will want to select the male or female figure from the Library to use in your workspace.

To export from Poser, choose File/Export/BVH File. Save the file as a BVH file.

To import to SL, choose File/Upload Animation and select the BVH file you've just saved. The preview box gives you options for renaming, setting the priority, looping, hand positions, expressions, etc.

For users of Poser 7, the procedures will remain the same. If you decide to use the non-linear features of Poser 7 to animate, consider saving a Poser document of the animation as well for backup - exporting an animation to BVH will flatten it to a simple linear animation, making further NLA tweaks difficult.

Heart sutra III

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:00:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.shambhala.com

however interesting or wonderful the speech and words are, if you just understand them conceptually, they cannot help your life.

Everything that you see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and think is the truth, just as it is. Nirvana means attaining emptiness, which has nothing to attain.

using the experience of emptiness to attain truth. With an empty mind, reflect this world, just as it is.

But if you attain something, you must do it.

Step by step, we attain how to function compassionately for others, to use truth for others, spontaneously, from moment to moment.

Heart sutra II

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:52:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.shambhala.com

form is emptiness, and emptiness is form.

This thing that seemed so solid and strong and real is now just a pile of cinder and ash which the wind blows around. This example shows how the chair is empty: it is not a permanent, abiding thing.

We must begin by showing that names and forms are not real and permanent: they are always changing, changing, changing.

If you are attached to fame and other people’s approval, you must see that these things that you struggle and suffer for are empty.

By perceiving that all things are originally empty, you can put it all down and just live, without suffering over these impermanent things.

But to teach people still caught in words-and-speech delusion, sometimes words-and-speech medicines are necessary.

It’s not this or this or this or this or this. It’s not like that or that or that. Understand?” Ha ha ha ha! This is a very interesting technique.

Heart sutra

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:43:55 GMT

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” This is a very important point. The universe covers and surrounds our world and everything inside it, so it must be truly big. But in the instant that you think of the universe—”universe”—you have already covered the whole universe with your mind. Therefore our mind is bigger than the infinite time and infinite space of this universe. How wonderful!

When we realize this—that suffering is merely the product of our minds, and does not have some independent existence—then there is no longer any suffering and distress.

If you cut off all thinking—which means if you cut off all attachment to your thinking—then your true nature appears everywhere.

We never get out of the suffering world. This is because we believe that these things are real, and that they are the real “I.” This is a central teaching of Hinayana Buddhism.

Mind is completely empty: where can suffering possibly stay? So this teaching about emptiness is very, very important to attain.

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Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:47:12 GMT

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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:25:14 GMT

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Using Google Code with TortoiseSVN

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:23:34 GMT

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Clip Source: code.google.com

Here's how to import your project using TortoiseSVN, the most popular Windows SVN client.

I assume you have created your Google Code (GC) project and it is called PROJECT and that the local source you want import is in a directory tree rooted at SOURCE.

a) Go to your GC home page and select the "Profile" menu - this will give you your UID and then click the "Settings" tab to find your PASSWORD - this is not the same as your gmail password.

b) In Windows explorer, right click n your SOURCE directory to get the Tortoise context menu and choose "Import..." This will pop up a dialog asking for the repository url. Enter the following:

https://PROJECT.googlecode.com/svn/trunk

c) You will be prompted for a userid & password - enter UID and PASSWORD described above.

Your project should now be uploaded to the GC repository. From now on you can use the Tortoise repo-browser and other tools to access it via the url above.