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angelpatty

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  1. Lovely, rich and vibrant colors!
  2. Don't play a lawyer on SL or TV, and in fact don't practice law, but the statements made in http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Updates-to-Section-2-3-of-the-Terms-of-Service/ba-p/2777874 are about certain clarifications of the rights Second Life asserts to content Second Lifers create, none of which prevent Second Life from abolishing any Second Lifer's inventory or content on whim under Section 1.2 of the Terms of Service (which still says, in effect, "if you lose content or inventory in Second Life, you can't touch us in court, and there are no other means under which you can regain them - except (heh, heh) filing a ticket.") They also direct people to SL's new Skill Gaming Policy, about which I'm apathetic because it just is bringing out into the open that while it's illegal for Second Lifers to operate games of chance, the crapshoot any Second Lifer plays when buying virtual objects in Marketplace or in world from another Second Lifer, only to have a very real chance of losing those objects owing to an LL server malfunction is still very much covered by Section 1.2 of the Terms of Service. Don't buy or create ANYTHING in Second Life unless you're willing to lose it to LL by accident or as a policy decision on the part of Linden Labs. They're covered in the courts of the State of California under which you agree to sue them in the event you can afford legal representation for such a lawsuit. And if, as the CEO of Linden Labs has implied may happen, Second Life moves on to a technical format which is not compatible with the function of your content or inventory, you have no legal recourse at all.
  3. You mean that LL will be even LESS responsive than they've been? How truly good.
  4. For people like me on limited incomes, an SL that'll just go away in a year and a half won't be a lame duck, it'll be a dead duck. I may as well migrate what inventory I can to another grid and hope for the best. I'm sure that the Open SIm grids are seeing a massive influx because of this, and honestly, my US$ would go a lot farther in Inworldz or another OS grid. I've already got a presence in Inworldz, so it's just a matter of taking my full perm prims with me and starting over, over there. I certainly would have no issues at all with paying Inworldz the US$9.95 I now spend on a Premium Membership here. Speaking of things to reconsider... This little interview of Altberg's is the dumbest move in the history of dumb moves, but at least he was honest about it and gave us all the year and a half's notice to wind up our virtual presence here and go elsewhere. Not looking forward to going to each designer in my 56K item list and begging for permission to transfer prims from SL, but you gotta do what you gotta do. See you in the OS Grids!
  5. I feel your pain. My quarter-sim's running me just under US$100/month and I'd still do that if I were assured that the expense would give me and my friends a place to be and enjoy life - but I had a very upsetting conversation with a friend who manages another site about this move. Unless SL does something - and I mean DAMNED FAST - to counter the FUD (fear doubt and uncertainty) surrounding SL now, tenants like me will fold our estates and hang around as Basic members. I can't BELIEVE I was stupid enough to put this much money in tier into a virtual world which won't commit to backward compatibility. My reply to Mr. Altberg is to quote the Cavalier poet Herriot "I'll be true as long as you, and not a moment longer!"
  6. What they THINK they'll get is a whole new demographic of kids who'll line up to buy Oculus VR goggles and maybe a slice of their income stream as a "cheers for the new customers." They don't realize that many SLers are on limited incomes and can't buy the gadget du jour. Most of us only tolerate the lag issues associated with viewers getting too bloated to run on our old computers we can't afford to replace because of all our friends here on SL. Of course, I've probably just given Mr. Altberg a reason to run us cripples and old folks out of SL - we can't compete with what they imagine they'll get when they migrate to an all-VR business model. Just remember Nintendo's "Virtual Boy" - we got the kids some for Christmas, and yeah. one of them couldn't use the thing at all without getting blinding migraines and vomiting. Actually, it doesn't even have to get that bad - just imagine what a double-dip recession will do to a business model which requires your customers all to own $500 VR goggles and a $700 (at LEAST) computer! Just sayingggg......
  7. Brian Shuster's wet dream - a reason for all of us Utherverse refugees to go back home.
  8. Just so beautiful, Cate - congratulations on SL recognizing what the rest of us know!
  9. Ultra is the very highest level of screen resolution available (at least in Firestorm; I understand there's higher res in some of the less well-known, specialty viewers). One major level of resolution lower than Ultra is High - the default mode for most people with fast computers; people like me who are running lappies with integrated Intel video have to run in Low. You sure have a killer set-up... it ought to manage two instances of Firestorm easily.
  10. Nope. I had the same question, because I was drooling over examining the Acer Aspire V3-551-0469 notebook, which is for saie at Tiger Direct for under $400. But it has the same graphics card you're asking about, and several hardware sites on the Web say that it's NOT a dedicated memory graphics card, really - 512 Mb memory (which they claim for the card) isn't going to help out much on Ultra mode in SL with recent viewers and recent sims in SL. I use a range of notebooks in SL, and the only one that really gives good graphics speed up to Ultra is our Gateway NV7901u, the NV79 with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 dedicated graphics with 1GB graphics memory. That one gives you play in all speed levels of Second Life that looks BETTER than SL's still pictures in their ads. Everything else in the house is various low end Dell hardware with integrated graphics of various sorts. My housemate glommed on the NV7901u at Micro Center at an after-Christmas sale for under $400, a deal I've never seen again (sigh)
  11. Tangential Ceka Cianci wrote: Lucinda Bulloch wrote: Oh, ty, it is what the thread is about, lol, feel silly now. you shouldn't..the world is getting way to used to acronyms lol i just saw a commercial today for something called R.A. i couldn't figure out if it was a disease or some retirement plan..one woman just kept talking about how she got help with her R.A. and that this one place helped her and could help those with thier R.A. then went on about ..if you have an R.A. call this toll free number.. i was like ..wow i wonder if i have an R.A. or not..because i have no idea what it even the hell is!! \o/ not one time did they just say what it was lol RA is the medical acronym for "Rheumatoid Arthritis." It's a disease in which the body's immune system mistakes healthy tissue (usually in the joints) for infected or damaged tissue, causing swelling, pain and destruction of the joint.
  12. I had a Marketplace listing for a skin knocked from "moderate" to "adult" because my wife and business partner named it "A_n_e" (remove underscores to get what she named it), which is a mild swear word in French. Strange, but true.
  13. I just borrowed a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop to use to access SL. I've run performance scans, cleaned up the registry, defragmented the hard drive, run a CHKDSK, reduced other programs running at start-up and freshly installed Firestorm 3.2.1 (which is the latest version of Firestorm that will run well on other computers I have had with 4Gb RAM and a Core Duo running at 2.25 GHz). My DSL Internet connection pings at 45 and the download speed is 11.45 Mbps.. The problem is that on the Firestorm viewer (and only on it) the audio has a lot of noise and drop-outs. Also (and I've just noticed it the last couple of days on my other computer as well) avatar movement is slow and jerky after a few minutes, and frame rate drops very low. I have (in Preferences/Network and Cache) reset the maximum bandwidth to 1000. Any insight on what could be causing this? thanks in advance patty
  14. A friend of mine in SL just got "pregnant" and tells me she's been getting regular "prenatal care" (this is all roleplaying, folks) from a "doctor" in Second Life. Has anyone heard of SL Doctors, and if you have, is there a "medical school" in Second Life through which they may be certified as qualified to practice medicine in SL role play? I, personally, am a frustrated physician - my first college major in RL was pre-medicine, and I studied biomedical engineering in RL for three years. I've also worked in the medical support fields in various capacities almost my entire professional life in RL. So I'd at least like to be a physician in SL. Does anyone know how I'd go about that? Peace, love, and thanks in advance angelpatty
  15. Mesh is nice. In Utherverse/RLC where I am also present, we use it almost exclusively for clothing. And to the extent it allows clothing that conforms to a given avatar's contours (something I see deficiencies with in less-expensive clothing textures here in SL), it''ll be a great addition. I'll be happier when arguably the best viewer for SL, Firestorm, has a stable, pretty much de-bugged release which handles mesh objects. I've tried the Firestorm Mesh Beta and found some oddities like not being able to manually reposition the camera controls on the HUD. But we all know what early beta releases are like.
  16. About two weeks ago Friday, I went on a midnight shopping spree and bought several items. More than half of them did not show up in Inventory even though Marketplace says they did. More experienced friends recommended I look in "lost and found" and "trash," which I did with no luck. (Oddly, a dance HUD recenlty relocated itself in the Phoenix Bridge folder, and bless her, the creator was very understanding about that, AND about my moving the HUD from its folder in the root area of Inventory to the "Animations" folder locking the HUD up while we worked the problem. She gave me another copy and kidded me about the "gift for a special friend." she'd just handed me. Lots of creators wouldn't have been that forgiving, I understand.) I sent every creator whose merchandise I did NOT receive a courteous notecard (advice to other consumers - creators get swamped with IMs - they almost always prefer to get notecards when a customer has a concern) explaining that I didn't receive the merchandise. All but two of the creators were promptly helpful and resent the merchandise, and that time I got it. As far as the two creators who did not respond or resend merchandise, I can understand being cynical about "the stuff never got here" - but no response at all? I'M more than a little cynical about that. Lower Slobbovian Exports (a pseudonym) might be doing a land office business selling pistols at an introductory price of L$98 because it's actually an "Introduction to Mail Fraud," in which the lesson is "you get what you pay for - IF YOU'RE LUCKY." FIRST QUESTION: How does Marketplace actually decide when a product's been delivered? Obviously the process is non-foolproof, because I wound up with no merchandise five times that night the first try. Three merchants made the transaction good, two of them kept my Lindens and I got nothing. Is there a way to trace delivery of merchandise? SECOND QUESTION: I use the beta release of Firestorm. Could this have contributed to the problem? I don't think so - I've had ONE problem with Firestorm so far - a clean install and upgrade to version 2.5.2 solved it immediately. But have any other Firestorm users out there had trouble getting merchandise? I'd like to know. THIRD QUESTION: Does a customer have any recourse at all when Marketplace says merchandise was delivered and it really wasn't? I'm about to stop using Marketplace at all. It's way too much to ask to for a customer to have to fill out five notecards after making eight purchases in a night because the stuff never got into her inventory, and pray the creators are going to make good on the deal. I'd rather just shop in stores and deal with the creators directly - Marketplace proved less than useless to me because they falsely certified delivery of merichandise that I never received. Thanks in advance, angelpatty resident
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