Parhelion Palou

The first person was right, though being annoying. Sansar will never be Second Life, because Sansar isn't meant to be. It's a different design with different goals. Its target market is the people who want to create experiences for the millions of VR goggle users who will surely appear someday. The experience creators' market is those millions of people. (They shouldn't hold their breath waiting.)

Assuming you don't check your balance or otherwise touch your USD account, the most LL will do is take the $0.08 after a year has passed. Or buy some more Linden dollars - the 8 cents will be used before your payment method is charged.

True - they could go to Sansar or most any other game that allows user-supplied content and pay the company that owns it a lot more. There's always OpenSim grids though.

Businesses are closing all the time in SL. That's been true since people began setting up businesses. New businesses pop up all the time as well. Nobody is indispensable, though losing CasperVend/Let or Anshe's land empire would hurt a lot.

You can't gamble in SL because Florida has a law against online gambling. They want you to spend your money in their own state.

I ran across it reading the last several pages of this thread in order to catch up. Having done so, what I want to know is: Where's the lock already? Come on, moderators, it's time.

Who is this? I thought Linden Lab owned SL. Gotcha.

Sansar is still in development. It will probably be in development when they pull the plug. However, some Sansar devs have moved to SL. I'd guess they were ones who were doing the cloud work for Sansar.

If LL shuts down, so does Sansar. Even if it didn't, using your USD to get Sansar dollars (Sansollars?) is pretty much the same as having it disappear when SL goes away.

Max texture size is 1024x1024. The Linden viewer only allows 512 MB texture memory; the third party viewers allow more. My usual rendering cost is between 40K and 80K, depending on outfit, with a mesh body & standard head. I can't use my old prim hairs, because they were 90K and higher by themselves. My female alt (mesh body & mesh head) generally has a rendering cost between 50K and 80K.

FIFY Private estates are owned by other residents. Some estates rent out parcels. The terms of the rentals vary. The type I prefer lets you buy the parcel, so you get nearly full control of it. You pay rent (generally in Linden dollars) to the estate owner. There's no advantage in being a premium member if you do so, because the free 1024 sqm tier you get on mainland doesn't apply elsewhere. As a premium member, you can buy or rent on mainland. As Rolig mentioned, @Lindal Kidd teaches a class on buying land at Caledon Oxbridge. I don't know the details, but she will hopefully chime in.

I surrounded a parcel with a 64x64 wall that went from ground to 4128 meters once ... for fun on my own region. I hope something like that wouldn't happen on mainland, at least not often. Could be an opportunity for a new product ...

Close, but not quite there ... the scientist gets grad students to pull the lever, or recruits people to participate in an experiment.

From what I read (somewhere, long ago), the person who created Lumiya replaced LL's graphics code with their own in order to display graphics on Android devices. That's more work than the usual third party viewers have to do, since they're mostly LL's code.

So software applications are magic? Everything running on a computer uses the CPU. If it displays something (not via printer) then it's using a GPU of some sort. Either you're being intentionally obtuse or you really should learn how computers work.

There were private regions in 2006.

I was immediately refunded for the last few L$1 demos I got. I wouldn't have known except I happened to notice receiving L$1 for one of them.

Giving the thread a nudge ... Started my parcel beautification project by getting rid of the house. Houses want to have decor inside, and that's too much work. I'm thinking gardens instead. Worked on my second youngest alt. He's going to be a "typical" SL male - it's easier to find clothes for them. Here I am with my two youngest alts. (Nobody felt like looking in the same direction. Ah well.)

I have a fax machine, but I can't figure out how to plug it into my cellphone.

There are presses from the right era on Community Virtual Library land at CVL in printing press building They might be the same ones as at Caledon; I haven't seen the Caledon one.

SL started out as a sandbox, a blank slate. Residents made SL what it is. For some people it's a social platform, but it's many other things to many other people.

Not all premium members are mainlanders or Linden Home dwellers. Some premium members have no interest in mainland or Linden Homes.

Those basic accounts also own the regions being rented. Those are worth a lot more than a premium account.

People keep forgetting ... estate owners have little reason to be premium and they're the ones providing most of LL's income. Therefore basic accounts *do* provide most of LL's direct income.

LL messed up a bit. They said it ended July 8th, but they were thinking of the end as the time when they took the regions offline rather than when it closed to the public.