Ok, i told Davie (Somatika), lemme ask you some silly questions and we’ll talk about this thing Second Life and what it is all about….Coz you see, i need to write this article about it so lemme interview you for inspiration… I didn’t edit this log on purpose ;p
Somatika Xiao: Or shall I just spew out stuff?
You: Ok, what brought you to SL?
You: Oh, spewing out is even better
Somatika Xiao: Well one day I was wanundering around the net
Somatika Xiao: Looking for something to keep my intrest.
Somatika Xiao: I came across second life before.
Somatika Xiao: But brushed it off
Somatika Xiao: so I came into second life for fun 
Somatika Xiao: But it has been much more then just that.
Somatika Xiao: So far in my Second Life I have learnd skills I can use in the real world. such as managing skills.
Somatika Xiao: Managing people in the real world is hard
Somatika Xiao: but the virtual is even harder to some degree
Somatika Xiao: I have had a good Second Life.
Somatika Xiao: Overall.
Somatika Xiao: might need to take the lead
Somatika Xiao: I could wander off to fast
You: well, so far you are not wandering
Somatika Xiao: I am about to
You: well, so what is actually this second life?
You: (as if i don’t know)
Somatika Xiao: Heh.
You: but you tell me
Somatika Xiao: Well Second Life is a 3D Online Enviroment
You: meaning?
Somatika Xiao: With everything in it basicly created and maintaind by the peopel in it
You: imagine i have no idea of such things
Somatika Xiao: Hmmm
Katya Koolhaas giggles
Somatika Xiao: If someone has ni ideas of such things
Somatika Xiao: they should start to know
You: like s’pose am someone who never experienced any virtuality at all
Somatika Xiao: Ok so second life from a non geek POV is
Somatika Xiao: A whole bunch of people use there computers to connect to a 3D Computer enviroment
You: and what do they get?
Somatika Xiao: Thease people can be anywhere in the world that has internet connections
You: nah… i don’t belive that
Somatika Xiao: Well you need a semi recent computer.
You: and FAST internet connection!
Somatika Xiao: And a semi decent internet connection
Somatika Xiao: Well
You: no?
Somatika Xiao: I can run it on low bandwith
Somatika Xiao: But Ping is a good thing to have
You: well, ok my computer is pretty old but am still here
Somatika Xiao: Low ping = good times
You: what’s PIng?
Somatika Xiao: The time it takes for my computer to reach yours.
You: just don’t go techy on me, pls
You: plus that’s wrong explanation of ping
Somatika Xiao: I know
Somatika Xiao: Lol
Somatika Xiao: Just did not know I would be hit with exsplaining this stuff
Somatika Xiao: Not the best at it
Somatika Xiao: I can see it work in my mind
Somatika Xiao: Saying how it works
You: lol, well, but why do pple wnat to do this at all? Isn’t real life enuff for them?
Somatika Xiao: dose not work out so well
Somatika Xiao: Well alot of people have the want for more.
Somatika Xiao: power
Somatika Xiao: money
Somatika Xiao: houses
Somatika Xiao: cars
Somatika Xiao: stuff like that
Somatika Xiao: This is a way to have that..
Somatika Xiao: You can buy the house ov your dreams with 1usd
Somatika Xiao: Or build it yourself
You: but well, if it’s not real what’s the use?
Somatika Xiao: There are many types of people in second life though
Somatika Xiao: Well it still hits people somehow right?
Somatika Xiao: People are here
Somatika Xiao: people are doing it
You: yeah, i know
Somatika Xiao: so it works
You: what’s this business with guys going around like gals?
Somatika Xiao: Not everyones cup of real tea
Somatika Xiao: Ah
Somatika Xiao: See this is a long subject
Somatika Xiao: much like any in Second Life
Somatika Xiao: There is no one side
Somatika Xiao: no one person
Somatika Xiao: Well type of person
Somatika Xiao: Well I guess for some
Somatika Xiao: It is more fun to look at a women when you play / use second life
Somatika Xiao: then see some guy in front of you.
Somatika Xiao: Sex Drive will do that
You: ok…..
Somatika Xiao: I have played many MMO’s and 1/3 of my Online people are probably female
Somatika Xiao: Not going to deny it
You: ok, are you emplyed in real life?
Somatika Xiao: Well, I am employed by The Wishfarmers LLC
You: which is?
Somatika Xiao: We do work for companys like Accuweather, Kelly Services and bring them into the virtual world
Somatika Xiao: Say create a 3D website
Somatika Xiao: More time
Somatika Xiao: more people
You: hmm…am not getting this at all…
You: 3D website?
You: and what is wishfarmers?
You: where is your office?
Somatika Xiao: Brain fart?
Somatika Xiao: Heh
Somatika Xiao: Well I am like
You: am not gonna edit it
Somatika Xiao: Do I need to tell you what A website it?
You: no, i’ll look up in the dic
You: how many hours a week do you spend in SL?
Somatika Xiao is Offline
Somatika Xiao: GPU went kuput
You: yewww
Somatika Xiao: I have no way of getting those….
Somatika Xiao: ?
Somatika Xiao: Not EWWW but YEWWWW?
You: getting which?
Somatika Xiao: Probably all of them
You: GPUs?
Somatika Xiao: I do not think about that stuff to much
Somatika Xiao: No the questions
You: okies, so say whatever you want
Somatika Xiao: Hmmm
Somatika Xiao: Aslo a problem I would choke then…
Somatika Xiao: I would need time to prepare.
Somatika Xiao: Ouch!
You: i’ll save you from sure death
Somatika Xiao: So yeah..
Somatika Xiao: GPU has craashed 7 or so times sense I have had it
You: ok, just tell me how much time on the average you normally spend in SL?
Somatika Xiao: need to look into it more
Somatika Xiao: Well SL or Work SL?
Somatika Xiao: I do diffrent things with SL
Somatika Xiao: Or all together?
You: hmmm… so how much SL and how much Work SL?
You: oh, that’s getting really interesting, which different things you do?
Somatika Xiao: SL would be about 8 hours? at max a week
Somatika Xiao: Work SL would be 20+ hours
Somatika Xiao: Give or take
You: ok, that’s more than me
You: i mean SL
Somatika Xiao: Well that is way high end
Somatika Xiao: Work / SL mix a little bit.
Somatika Xiao: Ok so intresting things I do with SL
You: yeah, but we don’t do it every week, i mean just chilling out in Sl
Somatika Xiao: Most of them are under a NDA so I cannot say…
Somatika Xiao: We should
Somatika Xiao: Chill
Somatika Xiao: but right now I am working on a for fun Cult of the Cyan Magic Marker
You: but am not asking you about intersting things about work, i also signed NDA…lol
Somatika Xiao: It is a creative group
You: am asking about interesting things about life
You: i mean S Life
Somatika Xiao: not a Cult Cult.. more light hearted.
You: but we are going to have a temple, right?
Somatika Xiao: Also I am putting together a classroom / meeting space with Katya
You: who’s that?
Somatika Xiao: Sorta will show you later.
You: ME?!!!!
You: oops
You: i forgot who’s me
Somatika Xiao: That is my SL Sis and close freind
Somatika Xiao: I have done many intresting things within my Second Life
You: well, if you claim that your office is in SL, if i read your mind correctly…do you manage to make ends meet with it in your sunny cali?
Somatika Xiao: some would say SecondLife Life goes 6 times faster then real life.
You: that’s not some, that’s lindenlab says
Somatika Xiao: With some help here and there but yeah i do
You: in fact they give the exact correlation of seconlife time to real time
Somatika Xiao: SL is not my only income.
Somatika Xiao: I have a strict monthly income I live off of ontop of that..
Somatika Xiao: SO I really do not need to work.
Somatika Xiao: But I would be living kinda poorly
You: ok, that’s fine, am just wondering if ppel in more xpensive countires than mine can have it so cool, just working in SL…
Somatika Xiao: SL is getting to the point of paying for my Real Life
Somatika Xiao: Almost there
Somatika Xiao: that would be without the other income source
You: hehe…already paying for mine, but can’t compare living costs here and there
Somatika Xiao: Well sure
You: Eloria still have to work hard in rl
Somatika Xiao: But I am not working for a company that is in SL
Somatika Xiao: I am working for a Real Company
Somatika Xiao: that uses SL as a platform for our clients.
You: Jess and Vega got some american millionairs in US for sponsors
You: what do you think about the future of SL?
Somatika Xiao: Well right now Second Life is very closed to the public
Somatika Xiao: as far as the server code wich runs second life
Somatika Xiao: So it is small
Somatika Xiao: but Linden Lab the creators of Second Life the GOds if you all them that
Somatika Xiao: Is working to redo the basckend server code that will allow second life to operate much like the Internet
You: yeah, agni, shiva, aditi, durga…durga was the first right?
Somatika Xiao: Much more open
Somatika Xiao: Hmm Sounds right
Somatika Xiao: As far as the grids
Somatika Xiao: There is 2 second life main grids
Somatika Xiao: one for Brazil
Somatika Xiao: and one for the rest of the world…
Somatika Xiao: Linden Lab has let another company runf another grid.
You: i know of at least 3 real life countires embassies in SL
Somatika Xiao: Wich is all parto f the plan.
Somatika Xiao: yeah SL is huge!
Somatika Xiao: As terms of space
You: u just said it’s small…
Somatika Xiao: It is ran on 3000+ servers I belive.
Somatika Xiao: well it is small
Somatika Xiao: Compared to what is will be
You: but yeah, in terms of land it’s bigger than real earth
Somatika Xiao: Nah
Somatika Xiao: smaller
Somatika Xiao: like the size of..
Somatika Xiao: Hmmm forgot what they compare it to
Somatika Xiao: And forgot the size in miles
You: china?
Somatika Xiao: nah
Somatika Xiao: smaller
You: lol
Somatika Xiao: like texas
You: that’s pretty big
Somatika Xiao: yeah
Somatika Xiao: for how small it is
Somatika Xiao: for every 256×256 2m of land
Somatika Xiao: there is 1 server
Somatika Xiao: That is alot of power.
Somatika Xiao: Alot of computer power.
Somatika Xiao: Space
Somatika Xiao: There have been at most 50,000 pople on at once.
You: i saw more
Somatika Xiao: I joined when SL was max 5,000
Somatika Xiao: Yeah there probably has been more
Somatika Xiao: But that is not 50,000 people
You: you were lucky to miss that day…lol
Somatika Xiao: I can run 10 diffrent accounts at once
Somatika Xiao: so I can be 10 of that 50,000
Somatika Xiao: some people have “bots” wich do diffrent things in SL
You: well, on second life grid statistics it explains exactly how head count goes
Somatika Xiao: like Buy / sell land
Somatika Xiao: Sit in chairs to helps someones land traffic cout.
Somatika Xiao: Well It has never been spot on
You: what’s the use of traffic count and what’s the use for virtual land?
Somatika Xiao: Virtual Land
Somatika Xiao: Well you need a place to create
Somatika Xiao: or put a house you have always wanted to have
Somatika Xiao: you need a plot of land to plop that sotr of stuff down
Somatika Xiao: So it is like Real Land
Somatika Xiao: but computers run that land
You: so no property mafia?
Somatika Xiao: There is a huge court case trying to say Land in SL is just server space and LL has sold it wrong to people
You: ooOoo…we are on the sim border
Somatika Xiao: Well there are people who will drive property prices down
Somatika Xiao: Like
Somatika Xiao: Camp on them
Somatika Xiao: Protest
Somatika Xiao: Land areas do have diffrent calue
Somatika Xiao: Value*
Somatika Xiao: Like there is the fun thing in Real world
Somatika Xiao: Where someone can buy a old house
Somatika Xiao: invest in it
Somatika Xiao: turn it around
Somatika Xiao: and resell it for more
Somatika Xiao: Called flipping
Somatika Xiao: This is also in SL
Somatika Xiao: less money in it though
Somatika Xiao: Someone will buy some land
Somatika Xiao: put a nice house
Somatika Xiao: landscape it
Somatika Xiao: Resell
Somatika Xiao: Profit
Somatika Xiao: Traffic count is
Somatika Xiao: Lets say I sat on your roof
Somatika Xiao: And the land server records I am sitting on your roof
Somatika Xiao: it then dose some math
Somatika Xiao: that will say how much traffic a part of land gets
Somatika Xiao: SO more pople
Somatika Xiao: More traffic
You: yeah, but what’s the benefit?
Somatika Xiao: less people
Somatika Xiao: Less traffic
Somatika Xiao: Well in second Life there is this nifty search engine
Somatika Xiao: wich will show me popular places in SL
Somatika Xiao: Traffic will put places higher up on the list
Somatika Xiao: more traffic
Somatika Xiao: the higher you are on that list
Somatika Xiao: more people will see it
Somatika Xiao: BUT!
Somatika Xiao: Alot of those places have camping chairs
Somatika Xiao: wich are seats people sit on
Somatika Xiao: to earn money to be on a piece of land
Somatika Xiao: so it is creating false traffic
You: where’s that money comes from?
Somatika Xiao: The land owners probably
Somatika Xiao: I mean who ever owns the camping chair
Somatika Xiao: So the money is like
Somatika Xiao: 3 Linden Dollars
Somatika Xiao: per 10min
You: yeah, with dwell around, pple used to get money for traffic on their land…
You: from LL
Somatika Xiao: So 268 Linden = 1 usd
Somatika Xiao: well about 268 Linden
You: but people here really value L$
Somatika Xiao: Sure
Somatika Xiao: but it is just how it is
Somatika Xiao: 1 USD for me is nothing
Somatika Xiao: For someone else
Somatika Xiao: it could be alot
You: for me it’s 39 ruppees, i can buy a pack of cigarettes….10 sticks
Somatika Xiao: see it is diffrent
Somatika Xiao: But linden can buy
Somatika Xiao: clothing
Somatika Xiao: anything IN SL
You: okies, let’s go snap some pics for our Cyan cult group
Somatika Xiao: scratch just clothing
Somatika Xiao: Ok
Somatika Xiao: I will tp you
You: linden can also pay for account here
