Very amusing and mostly correct summary of the situation (and about 6 months of office hour logs), thanks Imaze.
2009/12/16 Imaze Rhiano <[email protected]> > ... everything around this really leads to one real question: "If a > tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a > sound?" > Or why there is script running when no one is around to see results? But > that is architectural question that mortals can't comprehend. > This is partially because Philip and Andrew's initial vision for SL was as an autonomous world that people would occasionally visit. Virtual creatures would run around eating and breeding and these ecosystems should run whether or not people were there to watch. Interestingly with over 1000 running scripts for every logged in avatar, that is still largely the case: you can look at Second Life as a world of scripts that humans occasionally visit. Cheers, Babbie
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