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Second Life also has its own virtual currency, the Linden Dollar (L$), which is exchangeable with real world currency. [14] [15] Second Life is intended for people ages 16 and over, with the exception of 13–15-year-old users, who are restricted to the Second Life region of a sponsoring institution (e.g., a school). [16] [17]
SimLife: The Genetic Playground is a video game produced by Maxis in 1992. [1] The concept of the game is to simulate an ecosystem; players may modify the genetics of the plants and animals that inhabit the virtual world. The point of this game is to experiment and create a self-sustaining ecosystem.
Big Brother Second Life (BBSL) was a virtual version of Big Brother, produced by Endemol in the virtual world of Second Life. [1] 15 Second Life contestants from three time zones were chosen to participate. The contest to become a contestant began on December 1, 2006. Contestants had to spend at least eight hours a day in the transparent ...
Anshe Chung is an avatar (online personality) of Ailin Graef in the online game Second Life. Referred to as the "Rockefeller of Second Life" by CNN, [1] Graef has built an online business that engages in development, brokerage, and arbitrage of virtual land, items, and currencies. Her work has been discussed in Business Week, [2] Fortune [3 ...
One definition of berry requires the endocarp to be less than 2 mm (3 ⁄ 32 in) thick, other fruits with a stony endocarp being drupes. [6] In marginal cases, terms such as drupaceous or drupe-like may be used. [3] [6] The term stone fruit (also stonefruit) can be a synonym for drupe or, more typically, it can mean just the fruit of the genus ...
Linden Lab reported that the Second Life economy generated US$3,596,674 in economic activity during the month of September 2005, [2] and in September 2006 Second Life was reported to have a GDP of US$64,000,000. [3] In 2009, the total size of the Second Life economy grew 65% to US$567 million, about 25% of the entire U.S. virtual goods market ...
[2] Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was first among roguelikes in ASCII Dreams' Roguelike of the Year in 2008, in a poll of 371 roguelike players. [3] It later polled second in 2009 (behind DoomRL) [4] and 2010 (behind ToME 4), [5] and third in 2011 (behind ToME 4 and Dungeons of Dredmor). [6] The game is released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. [7]
The chilling requirement of a fruit is the minimum period of cold weather after which a fruit-bearing tree will blossom. It is often expressed in chill hours, which can be calculated in different ways, all of which essentially involve adding up the total amount of time in a winter spent at certain temperatures. [1] [2]