Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
so the government should never spend any funds to test whether an idea is good or not?
gordon brown wastes £30, 000+ on "Second Life"
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Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The question, as I clearly said above, is the same no matter the amount.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
a good use of public money can surely coutenance spending what is a relatively small amount of money in investigating whether some particular activity or item brings about other benefits and/or savings? what is your definition of "good use" for example?
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
It's a bit hard to tell whether they are spending money wisely or just messing about, given that it isn't a public programme - they're using it internally, not for e-government purposes.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
You gotta love the French - they even virtually protest in virtual reality! AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
What have the autistics got to do with it?
Second Life well a friend has built a memorial of a place we used to go to. Its free to join fly about,,chat....think it only costs if you want to buy land and build complicated or classy structures....we meet up for virtual parties...some live over seas. So the friggin government has bought some space.....in secret of course.
Maybe they are planning we all do our 4Ae course on line.......as avators?
then again a new government could be built......with new progressive proportional representation voting systems!
do the government hold the same jurisdiction in a virtual world?
Maybe they are planning we all do our 4Ae course on line.......as avators?
then again a new government could be built......with new progressive proportional representation voting systems!
do the government hold the same jurisdiction in a virtual world?
Well exactly...£30,000 is small beer in the grand scheme of things, and a moderate investment in emerging technology.
Fullyplumped
in a personal capacity
Frogwoman, you are one of the more sensible people who post here and I don't want to sound rude, but this was spin and distortion worthy of the Tax Payers Alliance. I took the trouble to read the BBC links. GB hasn't spent a penny on Second Life, a futurology thing connected to the DWP has. In fact the story relating to Second Life doesn't mention GB at all. The second story says that the 10 Downing St website has temporarily withdrawn an email contact system. It will be restored soon.
I doubt if HMG will find anything useful about being involved with Second Life, but I imagine that they need to check it out, along with the ideas around virtual reality, and the money involved is reasonable for the government of one of the most prominent countries in the world.
When GB hears about this - almost certainly for the first time - he will probably fulminate about the DWP wasting money on technology which is almost entirely dependent on visual interaction, and which would exclude someone such as himself who is blind or severely visually impaired.
As for the temporary removal of email, which will be restored next week, this has nothing to do with the first story other than the opportunity to make a vague link to the PM.
I think No 10 should not waste people's time by pretending that anyone other than a very junior, and probably temporary, flunky will read correspondence sent direct to the PM. Everyone in this country has an MP and they should write to him or her first, or to the department responsible for whatever government activity they are concerned about. I imagine that whoever reads incoming stuff either forwards it as above, or forwards it to the security services to have the writer checked out, or most likely of all, bins it.
fractionMan
Custom Title
this^^
Plus there's been tons of money poured into Sl from all over the shop, not just from the easily targeted public sector.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
it the cost of one anti tank missile
still fairly pointless did'nt get second life.
though the chance to frag members of the cabinet would be kewl
actually better than shooting them for real as you could do it again and again
plus being politicons they'd be rubbish at computer games
still fairly pointless did'nt get second life.
though the chance to frag members of the cabinet would be kewl
actually better than shooting them for real as you could do it again and again plus being politicons they'd be rubbish at computer games
ajdown
Posting in this thread
Second Life isn't for everyone. It's easy to get bored quickly if you're just wandering round looking at other people's creations and buying their stuff. If, however, you manage to grasp how the build tools and scripting language works then it becomes digital lego and you can make pretty much anything you want.
As I have been for around 4 years now.
As I have been for around 4 years now.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
This ^^^
The DWP/SL story has fuck all to do with GB...and as has been pointed out, £30k isn't even a piss in a puddle in govt expenditure and was probably taken from previously earmarked funds that exist precisely for this kind of innovation testing.
Oh yeah, and:
Sls population makes it bigger than Sweden, Finland and Norway combined - 15 million users is a huge number of people.
Kameron
Kamoceratops
To be honest the most amazing thing about this is that the government can do anything for £20,000. Unless of course the wage bill isn't included and government office space is free.
Didn't they just hire some sort of Digital Tzar? If this is part of his do then surely some chunk of his £160000 salary got added to the cost of this project? Probably not.
Didn't they just hire some sort of Digital Tzar? If this is part of his do then surely some chunk of his £160000 salary got added to the cost of this project? Probably not.
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