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  1. Thantrax wrote: Hello everyone! I'm a new person here on Second Life and I'm trying to get myself oriented. I first became interested in signing up here when I stumbled upon some videos on Youtube of Second Life avatars and saw how far the graphics have come. This is a far cry from when the game first came out! When one gets involved in something like Second Life, there are almost always things that the new guy (or newbie, n00b, or whatever you call us fresh people) should know. Anyone have some general advice they would like to give? My reading up on Second Life has produced some references to other Viewer clients for Second Life, for example, should I be looking into those instead of the main one? I'm an avid table top role player, playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, Mutants and Masterminds, and the World of Darkness game lines. I also used to be a player on various online role play games like MUCKs and MUSHes. One of my main interests in Second Life is the idea of trying to make an avatar for some of my tabletop characters so I can take great pictures of them as I imagined them, so I can show them off to all my friends. Can anyone recommend a great place to get started on customizing their avatar? Hi, Welcome! Yes, the Avatar section of the forum is great like Storm suggested. All the people here have other good suggestions. The only two I can think of is the events section has some great ideas, as does the role play section of the forum. With V3, the LL version, on the log in screen it tells you what is currently active in SL, and that is a feature I love. Even if you chose another viewer, download V3 as that way you can just open V3 to see what's currently happening in your time zone, you don't even need to log into the viewer. V3 is the current LL viewer. I use it and have no problems with LL viewers. Everyone has their own preferences though. The only problem I have with the newest LL Viewer 3 is the IM's are at the top right of the screen which is too far away for me to read with my large LCD screen, so I will probably be switching to Firestorm viewer, but I will keep my V3 there as I love to just open the page and see what's happening in SL when I want to log on. I agree with the Marketplace. It's a great place to view a lot of things in a shorter time span. If you like the store, you can usually also go look inworld. If you are going to rent or get a skybox, I prefer to see the furniture rezzed personally. So for furniture, I tend to shop inworld, though have lucked out on a few furniture items on Marketplace that worked just great. Sculpties tend to be very low prim and some are really nice for such low prims. One thing that has helped me a lot is to right click and chose rename the items in my inventory, such as all my jewelry items are renamed jewelry and then a short explanation of what the jewelry is, etc, and that way I can find my things much easier. Some clubs want no scripts now, so if you join any of those, be sure to resize your items and then kill the scripts. You can make a copy before you kill the scripts, and call that item back-up for _____________ fill in the blank. Again, welcome!
  2. Eleseren Brianna wrote: Hi everyone, I hope this is the right forum for this thread (apologies in advance if it isnt). I wanted to ask people their thoughts on how to make a successful club/hangout. Its not just traffic, its about creating a place people want to come hang out - dance, talk, build a community feel - and keep coming back. Any thoughts on marketing, investment, costs, any other advice? Its open ended, any thoughts or experience would be welcome to hear. TY Hi, I don't own anything in SL, but I might like a club or a hangout one day. It will depend on the economy, but even if I broke even, it still would be fun. I visit a lot of clubs as that is what I mostly do in SL, clubs and shopping mostly, as I have a rl bf and one bf is enough! Anyhow, I thought I'd give you some feedback on what I don't like about clubs and what keeps me from NOT going back. 1. Too small to where our avatars lose part of their textures such as hair or skirts; meaning parts of the hair or clothing sort of ghost and go transparent. People spend a lot of money on their avatars, so keep that in mind. 2. The Floor: Make sure feet do not go through the floor when the avatars are dancing. Also, with the floor make it a good color as often clubs with snow indoors or sand is far too bright for my monitor screen even if I turn to sunrise, sunset or midnight. Make the floor a good color so people can see their shoes they spent money on, etc. 3. Have a theme and decorate it well. There are clubs popping up without any decorations, just a wooden floor in the middle of the ocean, and no theme or decorations makes me not want to go back as it looks very blah. 4. Have a general music genre such as is this club rock, heavy metal, blues, etc? Let people know the basic style of music. 5. Contests turn me off as people just befriend people so they can vote for each other, so it's pretty fake and not fun. Contests are a waste of time, imo. 6. Don't hire a hostess because if people don't have to tip a hostess, they will most likely tip the club/venue if and when they have some extra lindens (it's a very bad economy right now). Your Dj's can take care of the griefers. 7. Don't buy a lot of annoying bright blinging things that can make the eyes feel tired and sore after a while. IOW, don't make a disco and go all out with flashing and blinging dance floors, walls, ceilings, etc; it hurts my eyes, so I don't go back to those kind of clubs. 8. Make sure your Dj's keep updating their playlists weekly, or have your Dj's put together a creative and unusual set. Don't just play the same old commerialized music we can hear on the radio over and over. Do something fresh and different, too! That's all I can think of for now, but good luck. I guess what I like in a club would be the opposite of the don't likes. For a DO, get a sponsor or two for certain events.
  3. Sy Beck wrote: Fetid Inner Core - Google Prok and FIC for a lengthier explanation. I Googled because I had absolutely no idea what this thread was about. This is a FIC. A FIC is a paranoid resident in their own mind who wants to be with the Lindens? Huh? And, you want to destroy everything else? Huh? Below is copy and paste from Google. The FIC is a group created inside the mind of every paranoid resident. An ever powerful group dedicated to destroying the lives of everyone else not in the FIC. They are the most creative and successful people you have ever met. Often they associate, befriend, and entrance those that call themselves "Linden". Bizzare this, as Yoda might say.
  4. Canoro Philipp wrote: i remember that survey, it was on your account settings, it was needed to be able to upload mesh. I don't remember where it was as I don't upload anything, but account settings is possible. I think I got that quiz or survey about LL's TOS regarding IPR when I used the LL website page to get lindens instead of getting lindens inworld like I usually do. Anyhow, it's here somewhere. Take the quiz folks if you find it, it's interesting. I cannot speculate on whether Starbucks would care or not or consider it free publicity because as residents we cannot speculate on what a company "might" like since it is against TOS as I recall from the quiz.
  5. Carl Thibodeaux wrote: So i teleported to a random estate place to buy some land. They have a coffee shop on the land and it looks like the starbucks logo and a little different and they are calling their coffee shop Starbucks. Is this allowed? Or is this a trademark/copyright they are bypassing and doing something illegal? According to a survey I took here on SL, infringing on any trademark or logo is not allowed on SL. Not a sports team name and logo, nor any infringement on a name and logo are allowed in SL. Where that survey is? I don't recall, but it was here on the main SL website. p.s. The survey was a LL survey about our knowledge of trademark/copyright infringement, not a survey by a resident. It was a quiz actually by LL, and I failed a few questions.
  6. RudolphUkka wrote: * Bin There * Done That. *** Rudi *** That's what I was going to say, except with one added word - with. Bin There, Done with That.
  7. garey Solo wrote: I'm looking to start a new business venture in RL Please post your ideas here. All ideas are welcome : ) Google "What are the best business to start in 2011" and you should find some ideas.
  8. Phil Deakins wrote: I'd like to see an example of this "small island" where "a customer could have a home and a club plus some rental stalls", Maya. It sounds a bit bigger than a small island in terms of prims. The idea of LL charging less tier and taking a commission on sales sounds interesting but it would be no good from LL's point of view. Everyone would rush to get these small islands, put some token stuff up for sale, and sell nothing because (a) they just threw some lousy stuff together for the token, so nobody would want to buy it, and (b) the number of shops in SL would go up by an order of magnitude, all looking for a slice of the pie, so slices would be drasticvally reduced and even the low tier couldn't be earned from sales, and © loads of existing land owners would dump their land to get one of these low tier isalnds, so LL would well out of pocket. Well, not a lot of rental stalls. Also, a lot of clubs are about the size of my kitchen in my SL house. My rental house is huge with 2-bedrooms, is 2-story and it's 400 lindens a week. Anyhow, most clubs are about the size of my kitchen. My house could be the size of at least 2 1/2 clubs. Anyhow, if LL created some smaller places with no tier and just commision, it's better than letting the land sit there doing nothing. I think they would or could possibly make more if they went just comission only rather than tier, but that would depend on what people are willing to sell their items for, as the lower priced seller's would most likely sell more. I suggested some rental stalls also as I don't create anything, but if I had a Faery themed small island sim, I would seek out Fairy, Goth, Emo designer's to vendor on my sim. I'd ask the best vendors with the best prices in the theme of the sim to be vendors, or learn blender one of these days. What I'm proposing is what Ebay did -- no fees UNLESS the item sells. So vendors wouldn't be out anything; they would pay a comission as their items sell. The fun of SL is in being able to create and/or build, if they price us out or take that away, people bore of SL too fast, and that's probably the No.1 reason they lose customers, as they are priced out of the creation of SL, which is a HUGE part of the fun. I know, I'm going through a lull with SL. It gets to be the same ol same ol when you can't create or build or look forward to anything creative. What do people do when they are priced out of a SL "dream" they would like to create? Most likely they leave because all the creative control is in other's hands, as well as the music choices in other's hands.
  9. ralph Alderton wrote: If Linden Lab want to seriously increase their revenue lowering tier is essential. It's only people who don't believe in SL's potential and future who say that tier is the right price. Tier is currently set at the wrong price, that's why SL is stagnating. LL should let anyone buy a HS without a full sim, lower tier and watch SL boom again. If LL halved tier costs they'd sell tons of sims and more than double their money. High tier costs are strangling and suffocating the whole ecosystem. It's all about the land. I'd agree with this, except why not 1/4 sims or small private islands? I would like some land that I could afford, but I am priced out and I am sure so are many. If they had small islands where say a customer could have a home and a club plus some rental stalls, why not? Or a small island with a home and a store front, why not? Or a small island for their breedables, why not? As far as the $1000 start up cost, yes they should do away with that as this global economy is not excepted to rebound until 2020... so that's a long, long time. I read an article that said for this Christmas people are going to be spending cash for their Christmas. People do not have confidence in the economy to put items on credit and risk ruining their credit. Ebay did away with upfront costs for a long time. You only had to pay the fees IF the item sold. (I currently don't know what's going on with Ebay now, as I haven't wanted to sell in a buyer's market.) Anyhow, how about small islands and LL gets smaller tiers on those or on 1/4 sims, plus some commision on whatever sells as far as inworld stores or stalls on these smaller islands. Or, they could lower the tiers and get commissions on what sells? I know this last paragraph might sound confusing, but I'm asking why not small islands where we could do what we what --have a home, a small business (club or store or vendor stalls or breedables) and LL gets commission of what sells?
  10. Phil Deakins wrote: You can't actually upload prims, Maya. You only upload textures. (You can also upload animations and other stuff, but sculptmaps are textures, and meshes are similar) With sculpties, the texture is the sculptmap, which turns a prim into the required sculpty shape according to the map (sculptmap), and it costs the same to upload as any other texture - 10L. You can get a lot more "shapely" objects onto a parcel by using sculpty objects, because sculpties are used to create nice shapes without needing to use extra normal prims to achieve the same nice shape. Also, you can use 1 sculpty prim for several object parts. I use 1 sculpty prim for all my furniture that has 4 legs, for instance - 4 legs/feet but only 1 prim. LL charges more to upload meshes. I've forgotten how much because they've never interested me. Mesh objects are treated differently. A mesh object may be created using just 1 prim, but it's counted as a lot more prims for the land. For instance, mesh is no good for low prim furniture (my business) because a piece of existing low prim furniture that uses, say, 5 or 6 prims (sculpties and/or normal prims, or both), would count for a *lot* more prims than that if it were made using 1 prim and mesh, so you could fit fewer objects on the parcel. I'm not sure what you're driving at but, if your landlady told you 1L per prim, then that'll be the rental cost to you, and has nothing to do with uploads or tier costs. LL have been steadfast in not changing the tier structure or the cost of tier, presumably because they'd run the risk of not recovering what they would initially lose, and tier is the mainstay of their income. People often want tier to be reduced, but it would be a huge risk to LL's income, which they may never recover. For a long time, I've had a different idea, which is to have more tier levels - smaller jumps in land and tier costs. Tier isn't bad at the low levels but, when you reach, say, 32k of land, then the next step is 64k - a large increase in cost. After 64k, it's 128k and, after that, it's 256k, each with huge cost increases. If they stuck some more levels in between, it would encourage people to go up in small levels. In both cases, it would initially drastically reduce LL's tier income, and, understandably, they are very reluctant to take the risk, especially since it can't be known whether or not the initial loss would be recovered and even more profits from tier would result due to higher land ownership.. Okay, thanks Phil, that explains some things to me. I also looked at another rental sim yesterday and the rents were so inexpensive, it got me to thinking how are they making their tier with these low rentals? It was a nice rental sim with lots of cute houses, and I didn't see any empty and they are hardly charging anything for it and you get a lot of prims compared to what I've seen others charge for rentals. Anyhow, I do wonder how they make their tier? However, with sculpties, less land impact, that would mean LL could have more land. The more land you have, you create a glut. When a glut happens, the price should go down. I wish LL would break up the land so people could afford a small island. Why do these sims have to be so big and shared like that? Is it because of the servers and LL doesn't have enough to break up the land like that? I think more people would buy land if they didn't have to pay a profit to a resident for part of their sim. As far as LL losing part of their profit, well that happens in a Great Recession as this one has been called. You either create a new business model that people are willing to pay and can afford, or you fold and lose all your profit.
  11. Sy Beck wrote: @Ceka & @Phil Hmm...ok, I'm glad you can fathom her mind. It was the L$1 for a prim that had me. It is 1Linden a prim from what my rental landlady told me. So, as I was thinking since sculpties and mesh will be such way fewer "prims", why can't the price be reduced from 1L a prim to say a fraction of that, and my price figured .30, although sculpties can be anywhere from 10x less land impact. Or is my landlady saying the wholesale price is 1L per prim to upload or rez onto her rental sim/rental house? She practically charges me the wholesale price for my rental (or my prims). She makes about 50 lin profit a week from me if even that as she uses the sim to "learn" and experiment and have fun right now rather than looking for profit. Anyhow, so 1L a prim unless I've completely misunderstood, which wouldn't be unusual because I've stated many times I am not a creator and my username is a complete coincidence to the Maya software which I never heard about until I visited these forums. Now, let's talk a pot belly stove. I saw a pot belly stove for 14 prims today. I have a sculpted 2 prim pot belly stove currently in my SL house. In other words, the land impact is far less with sculpties. Thus, we can fit more SLuff with sculpties and I heard mesh was going to be far less in prims? As far as mesh, too new for me to understand. So, just take sculpties as far less land impact...couldn't they then help to lower prices of the land and the tier? Anyhow, I'm not a creator or a land owner, so don't listen to me. I'm in SL for fun and not profit at this time, and still learning. I have way too much to learn to want to go into a SL business right now. Perhaps after the New Year for me as it depends on the economy, which I think is going to be way worse this time with the Great Recessions. Anyhow, sculpties what can they do to affect the land impact? Are you all saying nothing? If sculpties and mesh can help nothing, then what the heck is mesh for?
  12. garey Solo wrote: Yes we've all heard that SL is slowly declining. But why? Because people are so reluctant to spend. No customers no creators , no world. Go figure. Have you noticed lately that the larger more established businesses don't advertise in search anymore, Their traffic stats are ridiculously low. Its a real shame... SL winding down like an old worn out grandfather clock. Slowly ticking,ticking away and then one day shuddering to a halt. So do something about it ... support the creators who make SL what it is. It's a buyer's market right now and has been a buyer's market for years since the global recessions. Once an item is made, it's made. Sell your items for less, and you will see customer's. I go for the deals plus the quality. Charge less and your business will pick up. I skip thousands of items and creator's because they simply charge too much for a item that can be copied over and over. Also, with mesh and spulpties, that is far, far less than prims. Perhaps LL should make it .30 lindens to the sculpty or mesh instead of 1L per prim (If I have that info correct on the prim). It could and should reduce land and tier costs by 2/3's, as I have like a 4 prim harp, a 2 prim sculpty fireplace, 1 prim rather nice armchairs. I love sculpties and GOOD low prim items. Get into sculpties and mesh, people want more for their money. There is also a very nice grand piano on Marketplace that is made of 1 prim. AMAZING! As far as clothes though, I still like the kind that resize to my shape, rather than having to wear a cloned alpha layer shape for mesh clothing. However, the creator's that want a lot for their items, I skip over, as there are tons of creator's making items for less and perhaps even with superior quality. Get to know how a business works, and advertise your quality and afforable items. Ebay was the same way when it started -- less dealers meant higher profits. When I worked as a seller on eBay research what is hot and currently selling, and offer a better price, but advertise on eBay with keyword search is what it was all about, as remember people need to find the things you are selling. It takes research and hard work to make it in a business that isn't so "new" anymore. But, in a buyer's market, reduce your costs as you have no other choice. This is no longer a seller's market and will not be for years too come.
  13. Perrie Juran wrote: Mayalily wrote: However, it could deter someone from doing that in future.... As far as weight though, if the person didn't like the date, just give them compensation for their gas. LOL This still sounds silly to me. I guess we will see how it plays out in the coming years. Remotely possible it might deter someone but I think unlikey. As far as compensation for their gas, Civil Law would already cover it. Compensation is really a matter of Civil Law. Prime example is O.J. Simpson. But again, what is happening here is the attempt to create a criminal class based on violating a T.O.S, giving the same weight to a TOS as a criminal law. See my comment in this thread: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/compensation-from-LL-s/td-p/1235689 I see weight as civil also, as what did the person lose but traveling money? That would civil. How can making someone lose traveling money criminal? No one is forcing them to seek dates on the internet rather asking a person out on a date they met in person. They lost so little in comparison to the death's from cyberbullying some people are having to go through. Let me have more time to read through the thread and the links as I have to do some rl things right now. But, what a clog this seems for the court system over a date weight dispute.
  14. Perrie Juran wrote: Mayalily wrote: Perrie Juran wrote: "The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile at a site like Match.com. In a statement obtained by CNET that's scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, the Justice Department argues that it must be able to prosecute violations of Web sites' often-ignored, always-unintelligible "terms of service" policies. The law must allow "prosecutions based upon a violation of terms of service or similar contractual agreement with an employer or provider," Richard Downing, the Justice Department's deputy computer crime chief, will tell the U.S. Congress tomorrow." http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57324779-281/doj-lying-on-match.com-needs-to-be-a-crime/ The serious implication of all this is the potential destruction of anonymity on the Internet and how it can become a tool the government could use to silence or prosecute dissenting voices. A service provider such as Facebook or Second Life should and does have the right to enforce their TOS as a matter of Civil Law, but to make it a criminal act could potentially make millions of people criminals who could arbitrarily be targeted for prosecution. _____________________________________________________ There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in it that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted-and you create a nation of lawbreakers-and then you cash in on guilt. -Holden Caulfield, The Grapes of Wrath A crime to lie about your weight? How silly. LOL As far as stopping deliberate premeditated murder on some websites, such as Facebook, I think it's a good idea. The last case I heard about the mother of the neighbor's teenage daughter deliberating cyberbullied her to the point of the girl's suicide. It was deliberate and all the mother of the neighbor's daughter got for cyberbullying the girl to the point of her death was a $5,000 dollar fine. I felt she should have been jailed for deliberate premeditated murder. The young girl is dead. Problem is it probably wouldn't have stopped it. The mother was intent on harassing the girl. So at best it may have laid an additional charge on her. Mayalily wrote: A crime to lie about your weight? How silly. LOL As far as weight, I don't think anyone will really take that seriously. It just sounds so absurd to me for some reason. How about if you are a prosecutor or other LEO convinced a person has committed Crime A but you can't find the proof? Because in reality the person hasn't committed the crime. But you are still convinced they were the one who did it. So in your investigation you discover this little lie. They jump on those opportunities. You don't think similar things haven't happened? They have, can & do. And it is not up to the criminal law Judge as a rule to decide the constitutionality of a law, only to enforce it. The constitutionality is for the Appeals Courts to decide. Have you ever heard of a Judge saying he disagreed with a law but his job was to carry it out? Again, it has and can happen. No matter how ridiculous the law may sound. True, the mother admitted she was intent on doing this to this girl. However, it could deter someone from doing that in future....? As far as weight though, if the person didn't like the date, just give them compensation for their gas money. LOL This still sounds silly to me. I guess we will see how it plays out in the coming years.
  15. Perrie Juran wrote: "The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile at a site like Match.com. In a statement obtained by CNET that's scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, the Justice Department argues that it must be able to prosecute violations of Web sites' often-ignored, always-unintelligible "terms of service" policies. The law must allow "prosecutions based upon a violation of terms of service or similar contractual agreement with an employer or provider," Richard Downing, the Justice Department's deputy computer crime chief, will tell the U.S. Congress tomorrow." http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57324779-281/doj-lying-on-match.com-needs-to-be-a-crime/ The serious implication of all this is the potential destruction of anonymity on the Internet and how it can become a tool the government could use to silence or prosecute dissenting voices. A service provider such as Facebook or Second Life should and does have the right to enforce their TOS as a matter of Civil Law, but to make it a criminal act could potentially make millions of people criminals who could arbitrarily be targeted for prosecution. _____________________________________________________ There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in it that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted-and you create a nation of lawbreakers-and then you cash in on guilt. -Holden Caulfield, The Grapes of Wrath A crime to lie about your weight? How silly. LOL As far as stopping deliberate premeditated murder on some websites, such as Facebook, I think it's a good idea. The last case I heard about the mother of the neighbor's teenage daughter deliberating cyberbullied her to the point of the girl's suicide. It was deliberate and all the mother of the neighbor's daughter got for cyberbullying the girl to the point of her death was a $5,000 dollar fine. I felt she should have been jailed for deliberate premeditated murder. The young girl is dead. As far as weight, I don't think anyone will really take that seriously. It just sounds so absurd to me for some reason.
  16. Venus Petrov wrote: SL allows any resident to choose a gender and skin color. If one makes more than one avatar, one can craft all sorts of combinations. For the purposes of this OP, I am interested in your original choices. You can, of course, diverge from that if you like. When you first rezzed, how did you decided upon the gender of your avatar? How did you decide the skin tone/color? As time has passed, I see more content creators making clothing for males and there is much, much more variety in skin colors and ethnicities (I know these are not always the same thing but you get my drift). How did you make your choices? Did you switch somewhere along the line by choosing either the other gender or a radically different skin tone/color (and why)? Do you wonder what it would be like to operate an avatar of another gender? Take on an ethnicity that is different from what you started with? What would stop you from trying something different? Discuss. I like being a women in rl and I love fashion, women's fashion, especially Fae and Goth in rl. My skin tone is a little darker and warmer than my rl skin, which is kind of pasty white in rl, but I am not an albino or anything like that. Just extremely light skinned, the kind that burns and needs at least a 50 sunblock. I do not tan in rl, but have a very light tan in sl. I have to use fake tanning products in rl if I want to try to get any kind of a "tan" without looking like a lobster. As far as being a man in sl, I feel that would limit what I truly love to have in my wardrobe. If I ever create any type of alt, it might be for a Vampire or some other kind of a character simply because my wardrobe inventory is getting very large, and if I wanted to be a Vampire creating an alt would help me keep things more easily sorted. But mostly my choices were based on a love of fashion and jewelry and are pretty banal. I'm sure to most people this sounds boring. I have seen people so extremely creative with their avatars in SL, so I may get some other ideas as my SL progresses in the months to come.
  17. Storm Clarence wrote: Mayalily wrote: Storm Clarence wrote: 6 minutes later and it is safe to go back in-world. You sure all clear? As I and lots of people got sent to a different region and stuck somewhere none of us no where, but as soon as trying to teleport, viewer crashes? :matte-motes-bored: Do you post these things just to exhaust me to the point where I can no longer make an appearance and perform some stand-up? LOL, no, but I'm still experiencing some random crashes. Will try again!
  18. Storm Clarence wrote: 6 minutes later and it is safe to go back in-world. Surfs up! You sure all clear? As I and lots of people got sent to a different region and stuck somewhere none of us no where, but as soon as trying to teleport, viewer crashes? Anyhow, will try again. Let's hope so as there is no music in that room!
  19. Grid Status, Some May Experience Login Failures. We are working on it at this time. Please keep checking blog. This is the current message I am getting when trying to log into SL, as when I tried a different region, I got the above message. Anyhow, just an FYI for everybody in case lots of people come to the forum saying can't login. Keep checking grid status blog if you can't login. p.s. I hope it is fixed soon.
  20. Caitlin Tobias wrote: It intrigues me, so I started up IE for the occasion (I prefer FF) and tried all kinds of fonts, enlarged and such. The 'ad warning' stays clear and easy to read and it is enlarged as well. So no, I do not understand why in your case it has the size of a dot, I could not reproduce your issue on any of my machines/browser. (tried XP and W7) Odd. If I am bored enough I will try it on my Mac too. I never use IE, although I did this morning, and yes IE has the best enlarge font and does stay; however, IE is the one cutting off part of sentences when it's in the stay enlarge font as opposed to having to scroll + and - all the time which is a complete eyestrain. Anyhow, I haven't used IE for years, not since this morning. Try Firefox and you will see how it looks. Ty Rudi, just wanted to post it got switched overnight and SECOND LIFE is now first and IMVU is second. I was trying a bunch of browser's this morning and their tools for enlarge fonts. IE is the best, but cuts off sentences or superimposes things upon one another. And @ Rudi, As far as returning to the forums, it's not something I intend to do too much. I'll stick to inworld and use the forums for info purposes, such as viewer updates.
  21. Venus Petrov wrote: Mayalily wrote: Caitlin Tobias wrote: Mayalily wrote: Charolotte Caxton wrote: It is an ad. At the top right of the tan square, it says ad. To take a screenshot, press CTRL Print Screen, then open up a program such as Word and right click to paste your screen capture. Oh I never used that key before (thanks) however this new machine isn't all loaded yet with software as we had to redo the whole OS over again a few days ago. I checked for word in the machine, I don't see it. Anyhow, I saw in the other thread it was 2nd life. But, when I type in Second Life with the whole words, Better Life (IMVU) appears at the top and there are some votes at the end, and simply because of an ad? I thought Google was a keyword searching engine and second and better are certainly very different words. Anyhow, I've clicked on the top link 2-3 times now, and that is IMVU over these past few days. Perhaps time to put SL in bookmarks then? Eh? You mean you Google to Second Life all the time AND you manage to keep clicking on an Ad that clearly links to another Virtual World? Hm. Okay, whatever. Anyway, paid ads are easy to spot on Google, see screenshot (I am sure you will understand my google speaks Dutch to me, the text in top right says: advertisement) : I never said I clicked the link that says Better Life all the time. I clearly wrote I clicked it a few times, and I use the enlarge font feature so when I checked just now the ad line that I have does not look like that. The ad word on my screen is this teeny tiny thing. Sheesh, the rudness on this board is beyond belief. You wrote that you clicked IMVU. If you look at the snap Caity placed as illustration, you will see that 'Better Life *is* IMVU (see small url under Better Life). Rude for Caity to place an aid to help explain and illustrate? I think not. Just today you sought help in finding a nice Christmas tree. I believe others 'on this board' helped, yes? No, with enlarge font it looks nothing like that screenshot. The ad word was so teeny tiny, I never noticed it. With enlarged font, the word ad is far, far smaller than say a period to any letter in this post. Anyhow, I'm not going to take the time to explain enlarge font how it looks and the extreme difficulties I have been having with enlarge font with any browser since switched to Windows 7. On XP, enlarge font stayed, worked great. With Windows 7, it sort of works on Windows but when enlarge font is the right size, it cuts off part of a sentence. I know about the + and - and control + mouse scrolling as shortcuts, but on XP is just used to stay to the size you wanted it. Anyhow, onto the subject matter. I just checked on Google, and better life (IMVU) is now second. hahaha Something got changed around overnight.
  22. Caitlin Tobias wrote: Mayalily wrote: Charolotte Caxton wrote: It is an ad. At the top right of the tan square, it says ad. To take a screenshot, press CTRL Print Screen, then open up a program such as Word and right click to paste your screen capture. Oh I never used that key before (thanks) however this new machine isn't all loaded yet with software as we had to redo the whole OS over again a few days ago. I checked for word in the machine, I don't see it. Anyhow, I saw in the other thread it was 2nd life. But, when I type in Second Life with the whole words, Better Life (IMVU) appears at the top and there are some votes at the end, and simply because of an ad? I thought Google was a keyword searching engine and second and better are certainly very different words. Anyhow, I've clicked on the top link 2-3 times now, and that is IMVU over these past few days. Perhaps time to put SL in bookmarks then? Eh? You mean you Google to Second Life all the time AND you manage to keep clicking on an Ad that clearly links to another Virtual World? Hm. Okay, whatever. Anyway, paid ads are easy to spot on Google, see screenshot (I am sure you will understand my google speaks Dutch to me, the text in top right says: advertisement) : I never said I clicked the link that says Better Life all the time. I clearly wrote I clicked it a few times, and I use the enlarge font feature so when I checked just now the ad line that I have does not look like that. The ad word on my screen is this teeny tiny thing. Sheesh, the rudness on this board is beyond belief.
  23. Charolotte Caxton wrote: It is an ad. At the top right of the tan square, it says ad. To take a screenshot, press CTRL Print Screen, then open up a program such as Word and right click to paste your screen capture. Oh I never used that key before (thanks) however this new machine isn't all loaded yet with software as we had to redo the whole OS over again a few days ago. I checked for word in the machine, I don't see it. Anyhow, I saw in the other thread it was 2nd life. But, when I type in Second Life with the whole words, Better Life (IMVU) appears at the top and there are some votes at the end, and simply because of an ad? I thought Google was a keyword searching engine and second and better are certainly very different words. Anyhow, I've clicked on the top link 2-3 times now, and that is IMVU over these past few days. Perhaps time to put SL in bookmarks then?
  24. Lately, oh about three days or so, every time I type in SECOND LIFE in my Google bar, the search it puts at the top is this: Better Life, and then some other words, and then IMVU with some votes cast towards IMVU. Why is this going on the top of the search when I type in Second Life and it puts up Better Life, which is IMVU? How do I take a screen shot of this to show what is going on here with Google? I have clicked on Better Life a couple of times now, and that opens IMVU.
  25. Venus Petrov wrote: Mayalily wrote: Venus Petrov wrote: Mayalily wrote: I don't understand your reply unless you are trying to say that learning about war will benefit me personally. If that is the case, how would learning more about war benefit me personally? I read the Diary of Anne Frank, and learned a lot there, but reading that book didn't actually benefit me in any way. Governments do what they want to do whether the people like it or not. The President of the United States makes decisions for war, not the people. Other than achieving a deeper understanding of human motivations, decisions, mistakes and successes, I have no clue. We can remember war, but some of the stories are tainted and piecey at best, especially the Hollywoodized versions of some. ETA: However, the movie "The Reader" definately broke the molded formula for Hollywood movies, and is a great movie. I'd definately recommend that one! As far as reading books about war, well the American's have their version, the Japanese their version, and so on and so on. Too many sides to the story of war and most are far too depressing. I know about war and what the different sides have said here and there. Everyone has a different side to the story. I should think that all versions have relevancy in understanding motivations, decisions, mistakes and successes. Also, film versions often abbreviate the story for the sake of the screen. Cracking open a book, reading and seeking to understand even if the perspective is not yours can be an enriching experience. The Diary of Anne Frank is amazing. But makes me cry so terribly every time I watch it. I read it as a youngster, but is gut wrenching. I have not forgotten war, there is merely nothing I can do about it. I use the Serenity prayer about such things I cannot change and try to live as happily as I can.
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