Parhelion Palou
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1 hour ago, bigmoe Whitfield said:
I bought L$ a bit back, now for some reason I have gained a positive usd of 0.08 cents... because it says
2019-07-05 17:12:41 LindeX Overpayment Credit for order #xxxxxxx ($0.08) ($0.08)
So no idea what to do. really do not want tilla pegging me for it...
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.
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1 hour ago, Destiny91 said:
Well, there wont be much to shop if they drop like flies though
Businesses arent closing all the time, how many people working on SL we had when residents could build and create without being 3d artists and how many now? Plus I just dont think that many people who make their living in SL appreciate the 5% of their income to be given in LLab fees. They dont have motive to be in SL and create. Thats what I am saying.
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.
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14 hours ago, Destiny91 said:
Lately businesses are closing
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.
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9 hours ago, Teagan Tobias said:
And that is another thing, gambling is rampant in Florida, but I can’t gamble in Second Life????? (LMFAO)
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.
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6 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
I want to believe that you have Google Alerts set for that term.
/me shuffles off to the cornfield.
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.
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5 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Linden Labs
Who is this? I thought Linden Lab owned SL. Gotcha.
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1 hour ago, note Genesis said:
I remember that Labs had moved the activity od some devs from SL to Sansar . But as Sansar has been released , is it always the same situation?
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.
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11 hours ago, Mollymews said:
this is an interesting question
is possible that if in the one day closure of SL, Tilia may not be shut down
if so then we do lose any L$ in our SL account, but any USD in our Tilia account could be used in another world, Sansar for example
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.
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2 minutes ago, MaxSilverDragon said:
mesh is actually more demanding mesh objects take forever to load their textures sometimes it takes 45 minutes for the loading and that's using a GTX 1050 TI
people use 4K textures on their models and second life only allows you to use 512 megabytes texture memory
and now it's time to talk about Avatar rendering some mesh avatars are greater than 750k it is really hard to find a good one under 100k
me and my friend went through our avatars the reduce our rendering cost we took everything off or base bodies for mesh my kimono body was 60k is body with 41k after taking all our clothes off the most ridiculous item we had for our avatars we were able to take off the list they were very demanding my friends ding dong and my fishing hat with the highest demanding things on our avatars is ding dong 62k my fishing hat was 52k
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.
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1 hour ago, Rolig Loon said:Premium members can buy land anywhere. Basic members can
only buy Linden-Owned land -- land that's in the HUGE estate called "mainland"rent land anywhere. They cannot buy land directly from Linden Lab unless they buy an entire region.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.
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53 minutes ago, CoffeeDujour said:
once one person on a region puts up a privacy break of some kind, everyone else feels obligated to do the same, and gradually they just get higher and higher.
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 ...
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11 minutes ago, Fionalein said:
Someone just has to... "FOR SCIENCE!"
Close, but not quite there ... the scientist gets grad students to pull the lever, or recruits people to participate in an experiment.
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3 hours ago, Kyrah Abattoir said:
Didn't lumia just used cloud rendering?
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.
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Just now, Haselden said:
Well I wouldn't want to use any of the software applications either if their all going to run up my CPU and GPU. This is perhaps where the disconnect happens as well because Video Games use CPU and GPU to run. Software Applications do not.
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.
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6 minutes ago, Drayke Newall said:
Lets see, no private regions, bugs galore, downgrades to premium and lag... Pass. Only good thing maybe that came out of 2006 SL was the media attention that allowed SL to grow more.
There were private regions in 2006.
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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.
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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.)
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6 hours ago, Orwar said:
... People still use fax in this day and age?
I have a fax machine, but I can't figure out how to plug it into my cellphone.
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9 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Oh! I didn't know that!
Not the place I was thinking of. If I can remember, or find it, I'll pass it on. In the meantime, I should check out the Caledon one. Do they have presses too?
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.
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4 hours ago, Arielle Popstar said:
It's not about land, clothes and/or trinkets but successful social interactions. That is the goal of a social platform. LL seems to have lost sight of that if they ever actually realized it.
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.
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2 minutes ago, Clarrellae said:
Incorrect; what I meant was all premium members whether Mainlander or Linden Home dweller.
Not all premium members are mainlanders or Linden Home dwellers. Some premium members have no interest in mainland or Linden Homes.
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3 hours ago, Mahala Roviana said:
I think it's worth mentioning that all those basic accounts are what keep rentals in business. In that way, they contribute to the SL economy in a way that is equal to having a premium account.
Those basic accounts also own the regions being rented. Those are worth a lot more than a premium account.
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7 hours ago, Kyrah Abattoir said:
And before someone come screaming, I know that basic accounts contribute to Linden Lab indirectly. But that's through buying things and services other residents are making.
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.
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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.
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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.)