Chaihanas were all over Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Far East, etc. I could just say "thruway rest stop" or "truck stop" if you'd rather.
Uh, yeah, there's a pretty simple idea: a call for free enterprise and democracy, not corporativism as the model for Second Life. I guess the facts about the land *services* business just sailed right past you because you prefer your oligarchic/company town/corporativist model. Ok! : )
Your belated addition that "some rental agents" work quite hard with thankless work is just that -- a belated addition, tacked on, to an overall ideological hatred of free enterprise of the really democratic sort that benefits not just people like you with RL resources but lots more people. People are right to expect to be paid for a lot of thankless work. If they flip land and make a profit, they might just well as make a loss tomorrow -- it's work. I really don't like the barons holding all the Linden zoned land, and I think Lindens should zone a lot more and make the prices fall, and also on those particular legacy zoned sims, develop a better policy for their use so they are not hoarded, but that's not likely to happen. They are an aberration in the market, anyway.
It's ok to make money -- you do it yourself. Making money by flipping land isn't a crime, and isn't even morally repugnant, as the Lindens themselves do this very thing, using the arbitrage price of servers, and they make their revenue in this fashion, and that's fine. Again, it's perfectly fine that other people are in the real estate business. I suspect that as for others, what really bothers you is that this is a source of capital and a power base that you aren't part of, and you'd like to structure the entire world differently as a result, and force everyone to have your Television/Disney/Hollywood like model. Sorry, it cannot be imposed, and isn't viable for everyone or for the world.
If you are saying by "split the platform from real estate" you mean only *the Lindens' real estate inworld business," I don't think they should even be in real estate inworld. They should lay out a basic blank landscape, put in some roads and maybe the occasional windmill or fence or something that sort of sets the tone for theme or zone or civilization in some form, and leave the rest alone. They could even sell zoned sims for more on the mainland with covenants checked off to disallow adfarming or even a price ceiling. They can do whatever they want, the interface allows for whatever policy they wish to make.
I hardly think "service level agreement" is what they need with every purchaser of a 512 or 4096 -- that might be a rational offering for enterprise level accounts paying the $25,000 per year.
The splash screen should be purchasable by anyone within a set price schedule and a set of terms, i.e. PG or whatever. The allergy to advertising by the Lindens is one of the great killers of Second Life, and it spawns malignant forms of spam like ad extortion.
Chaihanas were all over
Mon, 06/30/2008 - 23:39 — Prokofy Neva (not verified)Chaihanas were all over Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Far East, etc. I could just say "thruway rest stop" or "truck stop" if you'd rather.
Uh, yeah, there's a pretty simple idea: a call for free enterprise and democracy, not corporativism as the model for Second Life. I guess the facts about the land *services* business just sailed right past you because you prefer your oligarchic/company town/corporativist model. Ok! : )
Your belated addition that "some rental agents" work quite hard with thankless work is just that -- a belated addition, tacked on, to an overall ideological hatred of free enterprise of the really democratic sort that benefits not just people like you with RL resources but lots more people. People are right to expect to be paid for a lot of thankless work. If they flip land and make a profit, they might just well as make a loss tomorrow -- it's work. I really don't like the barons holding all the Linden zoned land, and I think Lindens should zone a lot more and make the prices fall, and also on those particular legacy zoned sims, develop a better policy for their use so they are not hoarded, but that's not likely to happen. They are an aberration in the market, anyway.
It's ok to make money -- you do it yourself. Making money by flipping land isn't a crime, and isn't even morally repugnant, as the Lindens themselves do this very thing, using the arbitrage price of servers, and they make their revenue in this fashion, and that's fine. Again, it's perfectly fine that other people are in the real estate business. I suspect that as for others, what really bothers you is that this is a source of capital and a power base that you aren't part of, and you'd like to structure the entire world differently as a result, and force everyone to have your Television/Disney/Hollywood like model. Sorry, it cannot be imposed, and isn't viable for everyone or for the world.
If you are saying by "split the platform from real estate" you mean only *the Lindens' real estate inworld business," I don't think they should even be in real estate inworld. They should lay out a basic blank landscape, put in some roads and maybe the occasional windmill or fence or something that sort of sets the tone for theme or zone or civilization in some form, and leave the rest alone. They could even sell zoned sims for more on the mainland with covenants checked off to disallow adfarming or even a price ceiling. They can do whatever they want, the interface allows for whatever policy they wish to make.
I hardly think "service level agreement" is what they need with every purchaser of a 512 or 4096 -- that might be a rational offering for enterprise level accounts paying the $25,000 per year.
The splash screen should be purchasable by anyone within a set price schedule and a set of terms, i.e. PG or whatever. The allergy to advertising by the Lindens is one of the great killers of Second Life, and it spawns malignant forms of spam like ad extortion.