IBM's Secret Testing Island (Details Inside)

Message

christopher_wolf · #1 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:27 pm

You actually clicked on that? Wow, would you be the perfect victin for a bait-and-goatse-switch...

OK, that aside, IBM is apparently doing something along those lines with a virtual testing island in Second Life.

You know what this reminds me of? The development of lambdaMOO by PARC for a similar purpose; virtual meetings, better office communications, etc. It was a pretty good idea, but it eventually still got phagocytosed by the MUD and general D&D community.

#2 Post by **rkawakami** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:04 pm

christopher_wolf wrote:You actually clicked on that? Wow, would you be the perfect victin for a bait-and-goatse-switch...

Yeah, I actually did seeing as it was posted by you

.

christopher_wolf · #3 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:17 pm

rkawakami wrote:
christopher_wolf wrote:You actually clicked on that? Wow, would you be the perfect victin for a bait-and-goatse-switch...
Yeah, I actually did seeing as it was posted by you .

Yes, I know; I was just kidding; but still...One can always get creative with what gets linked. Well, it is either that or I really *have* gotten too many bizzarely titled emails in my various inboxes.

So what do you think about the virtual business island?
I am pretty sure they aren't going to try to come up with a virtual vacation island, because that is just plain silly.

#4 Post by **rkawakami** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:43 pm

Hmm... video game technology extending into the boardroom... certainly beats having meeting participants "working" with their PDAs, when they're actually playing games or wirelessly beaming notes back-and-forth to each other

.

re: "virtual vacation island"... Already been done in the late '70s. Show was called "Fantasy Island"

#5 Post by **GomJabbar** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:54 pm

rkawakami wrote:re: "virtual vacation island"... Already been done in the late '70s. Show was called "Fantasy Island"

How about "Westworld"?

#6 Post by **rkawakami** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:06 pm

GomJabbar wrote:How about "Westworld"?

Yes, that was the early '70s but I don't remember an island being featured in any of the different 'worlds' available at the park.

christopher_wolf · #7 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:47 pm

Yes there is Westworld and Fantasy Island. Although, unless IBM comes up with some sort of amazingly new cybernetic technology that is decades ahead of its time, they aren't going to sell the concept of a virtual vacation island well at all.

asiafish · #8 Post by **asiafish** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:59 pm

Actually the resort itself consisted of Medieval World, Roman World and Westworld, all as part of the Delos resort. The resort itself was a large island.

Speaking of Westworld, the same author a few years later recycled his idea almost verbatim to create Jurassic Park. Island amusement park with things that shouldn't be there all go haywire and kill everyone. I remember watching it and thinking of the Raptors as Yul Brynner.

christopher_wolf · #9 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:03 pm

asiafish wrote: Speaking of Westworld, the same author a few years later recycled his idea almost verbatim to create Jurassic Park. Island amusement park with things that shouldn't be there all go haywire and kill everyone. I remember watching it and thinking of the Raptors as Yul Brynner.

When Disney opened their first theme park, nothing worked; but the Pirates of the Caribbean didn't eat the tourists.

Actually, that might lend some needed excitment to the It's a Small World After All ride...or maybe it will make it look like Chucky, I can't tell.

#10 Post by **JaneL** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:08 pm

christopher_wolf wrote:the It's a Small World After All ride

I have to hurt you because now I have that song stuck in my head.

No

for you!

JHEM · #11 Post by **JHEM** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:48 pm

nonny wrote:I have to hurt you because now I have that song stuck in my head.

Oh, I can fix that!

I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener

That is what I truly want to be

'Cuz if I was an Oscar Mayer wiener

Everyone would be in love with me!

christopher_wolf · #12 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:12 pm

nonny wrote:
christopher_wolf wrote:the It's a Small World After All ride
I have to hurt you because now I have that song stuck in my head.

No for you!

OK, very well then; punish.

Hit me...Come on and hit me with your best shot....Fiiiiire awayyyyyyyy.

Because I've beeen waiiIIIIIITING.....For a girl like youuuuuuu.

I do requests too; 80's, more 80's, 80's that weren't even heard or thought of in the 80's, 90's trying to sound like the 70's, you name it. The best part is, they are *all* great at embedding themselves in your head.

#13 Post by **GomJabbar** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:26 pm

You guys never hear of The Mouse That Roared

#14 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:38 pm

christopher_wolf wrote:I do requests too; 80's, more 80's, 80's that weren't even heard or thought of in the 80's, 90's trying to sound like the 70's, you name it.

Think you could perform some Spice Girls or Ace of Base then? How about White Snake? Come to think of it I'm really more partial to the likes of Eddie Money and Huey Lewis and The News but it'd be more entertaining to see you attempting one of the first three artists I mentioned.

asiafish · #15 Post by **asiafish** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:06 pm

GomJabbar wrote:You guys never hear of The Mouse That Roared :?:

You mean the Duchy Republic of Gran Fenwick?

christopher_wolf · #16 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:13 pm

That is an old movie, to say the least, but I have seen it.

Blame my Dad.

asiafish · #17 Post by **asiafish** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:20 pm

Great movie though

madmax · #18 Post by **madmax** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:57 am

The ID ... did it...

IBM's Secret Testing Island (Details Inside)

IBM's Secret Testing Island (Details Inside)

Re: IBM's Secret Testing Island (Details Inside)

Re: IBM's Secret Testing Island (Details Inside)

Forbidden Island ... that roared ?

Who is online