The rain-forests in
America are vital to the world. Converting them to farmland is an
eternal loss.
The airplane landed in
Glasgow where my vacation in England started.
The heather in Holland,
near Dwingeloo, is well worth a visit.
I would love to rent a sim
in Second Life so that I have full privacy.
When enough people use a
word to describe something that word becomes synonym with that, even
when it's technically incorrect.
America is a continent.
North North America is better known as Canada. Rain-forests in America can be found in
Brazil. Yet when people talk of America, nine out of ten times they
mean the United States of America.
When people talk about
England, most of the time they mean Great-Britain, that includes
Whales, Scotland and England.
When people talk about
Holland they probably mean The Netherlands, that includes two
Hollands. North- and South-Holland, and ten other provinces including
Drenthe. And also islands in the Caribbean.
A region isn't a sim,
technically. The word Sim comes from Simulator. A computer or, to be
more accurate, a server where a program runs to simulate part of the
world. A simulator, in Second Life, can contain five regions. The way
things are going servers will be replaced by a cloud, a number of
connected servers. A cloud can contain much more then five regions
when the machines are strong enough. In theory a cloud can move
towards your location reducing lag.
A region is a square of
256x256 meter. Each region has a name and our world is build from
those 256^2 blocks.
When people talk of a sim,
nine out of ten times they mean a region. Don't correct them.
Enough people use the word
sim to identify a region, a sim is a region.
Just for the record, I'm not a Hollander.
See you all soon!
Editor Vick Forcella
PC Image Wiki
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