Lancewae Barrowstone

...mmm, I'm thinking there is no name to nothing. *The child puts an ear to the the voiceless cosmos, listens and hears back, nothing....nothing...nothing... "What are you doing?" the mom says. "Nothing!"

hmmm yess, I hear you. And there’s nothing worse than having nothing to say about nothing, and that’s all I have to say about that.

I just learned (and yeah, maybe I'm the only fool not to know) the entire Blake Sea has been cloned to Aditi (the beta grid) where it is being re-worked and transferred to the cloud. There is talk of "fast crossings" at sim lines - along with bugs and fixes and fails, of course, but that is the process. And you want to find bugs. Ain't nuthin better 'n the world than to find a BUG and squash that thing into oblivion. But so, now here is the question. Should we just take a year off and come back to SL when this magnificent undertaking has been completed and running smoothly from that Big Daddy cloud of AWS? Then we can run out like children at recess and test the sim crossings everywhere in our own speedboats and airplanes? I mean, it's surely gonna take a year, right? Or is it. So, wait a minute before you answer. Here's what I think (and of course, what else in the WORLD is more important that that!? Huh?). First off, using the Blake Sea is smart, because it's full of broad expanses and thus minimal disturbances to builds on peoples' properties, and so beginning there to transfer from SL servers to the cloud serves to get the kinks worked out in a cumbersome process with a little space and calmness while you do it. I know how that goes. Like any complex project fraught with unforeseen encounters, you just tool up and begin. You start small in some out-of-the-way place, if you can, and start making your mistakes so you can alter your approaches, learn and build your efficiencies of doing. You also then create strong and knowledgeable teams and once you're rolling and everything is relatively predictable you can expand those teams and move fast and slick. Completion time is always a product of size of skilled teams and resources. Thus, it might be achievable in say, 6 months? But who knows. And really I suspect that once they've lifted Mainland to the cloud, you can then, just bring up the private regions one at a time at your leisure if you want. So, maybe we don't really need to take a year's break at all. Not like we were going to any how. Just be ready for some dust and noise as work seems at hand. And as always, tell me how I'm wrong and completely full of milkshake. ~ Cheers!

No, really her draw distance must be like 64,000. Look at her world map. DD is So HUGE it stretches across the SL voids. I've used dd 4000 many times, just standing on a sim and searching the floating debris up above a parcel. My first thought was that she has dd at 15,000, but, really her read on it as 64 makes me think it's really 64,000. Neon, girl, go check your settings closely. When you backed off the 512 you really maybe didn't get it backed off and entered your 64, and now have 64,512. Luck to ye lassie!

This goes way back to the invention of the AOL chatroom, and all the others to follow, and then online gaming in its wake. Any chance to link one comp to another in some way. He was probing to see how much of your shields you would let down. Get you in voice and he might soon be in your machine.

Rezz days are for children. Mount Olympus merely smiles down on your good fortune at having them.

That's the harshness of how virus' are. I have heard stories from relatives about the poliovirus (infantile paralysis) striking MOSTLY children, and when it became epidemic in the '50s (as with earlier outbreaks way back to the turn of the century and beyond) people were told to quarantine. No one knew what to do. Even Roosevelt contracted it at age 29, but survived it. What a terrible virus. It spread so easily, and it devastates your children. What gods can you curse!? What fiends can you track down and murder to STOP such a thing in this world? You would give our own right arm to NOT have that happen to your child! The Iron Lung was created back in the '30s (or earlier), which is essentially equivalent to our ventilators today, just to keep the terribly afflicted alive enough to try to get through it. Some, -- Heavens Above! -- some few, could not live outside that iron lung. Who can even imagine the torment of that, on a victim, on the ones who love them. You would just wish you had never been born. What agony is that! Can you imagine if that was hitting us today, targeting our children, letting us mostly go on with mild or no symptoms? The mass civilized mindset would just explode. And there is no easy answer, now as back then, just quarantine and spacial distancing. Schools continued. Life went on. You hoped; you prayed. Finally a vaccine was crafted that worked, by Jonas Salk. He tested it on himself and his own family. Would that happen today? What a world. What a country we are. Polio has been eradicated from the earth (last case in USA in 1982 i think), EXCEPT ...for one little spot on the globe, Afghanistan. Thus. the poliovirus is still here, it can return if vaccinations ever cease to be effective. With Covid-19 we too must endure with distancing and quarantining and masks, UNTIL that vaccine is created, tested, approved, taken to manufacturing, shipped, and then administered on a grand scale. That takes time. I remember some relatives saying they took it on a sugar cube as small children in school. What stoic strength we had back then. I guess expectations are low when you don't live OVER-saturated in reports and opinions and alarm. A virus cannot be stopped, lacking a vaccine. Herd immunity is the natural way to build antibodies in everyone but you must endure a huge loss in population of those who succumb instead. Agony and loss is the typical story. So, today humanity lives on a shoestring; it is stretched across the precipice of Oblivion and we walk across it every day, known as the viral vaccinations that are keeping us protected -- until they no longer. Buck up! We know what to do, even if we don't like it.

This IS a good question, and I wouldn't be surprised if our new "owners"/controllers move in that direction. with these ongoing and unfolding new member efforts underway (or still in planning), just as they are about to take the helm. Here's a good Tshirt suggestion with a nice SL emblem: Fix The Damned Hardware! ~ Cheers

As per "was it sold" asked by Pixie, apparently the acquiring party (the investment group) were allowed to purchase a controlling position in stocks, meaning LL holders agreed to sell that amount to them. Thus, the new buyers take positions on the board of directors which they essentially control, but that doesn't mean despotism. Boards do real work and try hard for successes. Nor does it mean the death of LL and it's creation SL. Nor will we really learn much now, until this transference is made. The agreement has been reached and silent will remain until closing. So, for us, there has been this slight mysterious burst of the volcano above us -- our own little Mauna Kea living quietly there beside us (".. the moon moves around her while she sleeps...") -- and too, we see have seen the mysterious puffs of smoke in these announcements of the "acquisition," yet we can't know the meanings. Not yet, and probably even the board won't know 'til the new guys walk in and sit down. I hope the buffet is good that day. And so, our Mauna Kea that is LL/SL, continues to stand there where our avatars were born beside her, and where "the sun spreads its warmth across her face." ~ A hui hou kākou

This is an interesting vein. Because, I can perceive an opportunity lying inside this transaction, as was hinted, back in the mysterious announcement of Arm Treasure Data CDP, an apparent direct investment toward a strategic attack to boost new memberships, an effort that seems to have worked, and so up goes value. It could be that this was done as a result of negotiations with these buyers, you know like, Oh, I'll buy your house if you'll paint over the purple walls and magenta trim with some sand-marbled charolais and lemon butter creme. Or, it could have been the result of some LL brainstorming over at corporate, a fixer-upper effort on the old beast -- make it shiny then SELL IT. What it all means for us? Who knows. Now pass the cheese swirled croissants, those over on the end where no one's breathed yet.

I dunno. Isn't the U.S. Dept of Defense on the the Amazon cloud now. Hah! Now that says something. The first line / last line of national defense is using Amazon cloud. I mean, Amazon is bigger than SL's servers. I guess Amazon is on it's way to becoming King of the Earth! I suspect SL can run smoothly over there. That is, if performance will still be an issue of attention up in the Corporate offices. Casting a wide new net for increasing membership seems to suggest that service and dependability of systems, must follow.

Ok, to set up your store you have to know how much Land Impact (LI) are you allotted on your parcel. When on the parcel, click "About Land" to see how much LI you have and it will show how much has been used, if any. Knowing that, then you can now make plans for what you want your store to be like. Think creatively. It doesn't really have to be a building. I can be an outdoor setting with stalls.. or tables...or boothes... or picnic blankets with goods on them. Whatever you feel like. It can be magical Elven forest setting with your products somehow displayed. Now your fun begins! Enjoy.

Two hundred prims for a large building with lots of rooms doesn't seem a lot to me. That's how many LI you get (or more) when renting a small parcel, say 1024 sm. And you can find houses for sale on the marketplace -- prim-built -- using that many or more. Prims are a different product from mesh in many ways and not all of them bad. And, changing the object settings of your prims to convex hulls drops that LI count drastically -- in half in some cases when all can be linked. Thus, you might build a structure in Sl with prims set to convex hulls that if all can, or most, be linked together (without destroying some scripted functions) you'll get about the same LI count as if you took it into Blender and labored over it there, and in some cases maybe fewer LI.

And realize that textures are the name of the game. Anybody can create (rezz) a prim, but only a texture can make it an instant window, or a door to Depression Era house or a portal to 21st century space station, or a simple but exquisite deckplank for a fishing pier, or a strand of hair, etc. ad infinitum. Soooo while learning to manipulate inworld prims to the fullest of your expertise, also be capturing and making your own, TEXTURES! Textures are the power. Without the right texture, you don't build what you want to build. It becomes something else.

Yeah, I'm sorta struck by this observation; and some of the alternatives you suggest following it, while quite interesting, are simultaneously somewhat staggering. It may be then, that what we have here in this Second Life thing, is a 1957 Cadillac -- i.e. something unique. Oh, that smooth ride, the luxury and comfort of velour seating, not to mention that space-age swooping tail fin, soooo un-year-2020. Is that really what we have? Maybe so, and thus it could be -- no, it should be -- seen for what it is, a cultural artifact too good, too rare, too useful and still too worthy, to just throw away. It needs to keep running in its marvelous and fun and addictive open-ended creative platform that is right there at your -- at anyone's -- fingertips. It beat Sansar on this count. It beats everyone else on this count. None can custom create the beauty with quite so much intricacy as at the ready hands of any player on Second Life. Thus, the types and variety of creations that go on in SL -- have always been going on in SL -- are rather astounding. And we all get to go around and land, plop into the middle of them. So, this needs to fall into the correct hands, those who see it this way, and will preserve it, proudly display to the world in it's ever growing status as that One-of-a-Kind platform over there. "Wow," says 5-year old Johnny, "I wanna grow up and go there!"

No, the map is larger. Someone suggested maybe it was the Firestorm update. But you can scroll out on that map and it zooms back and back and the mass of sims is tremendous, shrinking as you zoom back to a mass of stars as in the heavens. Before you could come to an end and your scrolling went nowhere, just blue edge. Now it goes and goes and the stars twinkle and twinkle (metaphorically you now). Shifting has definitely occurred on the map. Or maybe I'm just breathing too much air. Oh, clean and fresh air for sure, not that funny stuff.

I'm with Drak on this one (except for any real hope for better hardware). The new direction is solidly underway, and, as yet, is unperceived by us. And, look at it this way, bringing a sharp focus toward adding new members is an exact parallel to sentiments and personal actions of so many of us here, who for a long time ourselves have worked to pull others into the magic of SL. Just because we like to share it. Cheers for that, and really therein is the indication of hopefulness, such as Drak has proffered. Here is the hidden pathway as i think I see it beginning to reveal itself to me in my magic glasses: 1. The final reversal of the Sansar venture. It had its rationale, but didn't work out. Thus, finally offloading it, and just liquidating it. 2. The swivel to the Arm Treasure Data CDP approach as a strategic and highly focused undertaking toward a new conceptual future (which is happening now) 3. This move created a 300% ROI which is a direct elevation in corporate worth on the marketplace. 4. Thus, like the house flippers on cable t.v., you invest in your property with a goal toward elevate its use, appeal and worth in value for the marketplace. 5. Then, you market it. And now it goes to a new owner, who will love it (why else buy it?) I may be leaving out some small increments of the scenario, but my magic glasses were the best that money could buy over at Walmart. As for the hope of better hardware -- well, I mean yeah, it needs to happen but, you know, will it happen? Probably ONLY as needed to keep the cash cow alive. Let's be pragmatic. As a side note, does anyone else realize that the migration to AWS in the cloud is already underway? Maybe I'm off the mark here, but, well, open the map inworld. And LOOK at the huge populations of regions all in neat rows without all the large gaps that used to exist between them. TONS of them are seen now populating that map, as if, well... servers are being reduced in number and thus, region populations crammed into them (and maybe that's it and is a temporary move in the process), OR the reduced servers are actually the NEW and more powerful servers in the new location, bigger, stronger, and less in number. Something is going on now with all the performance issues, odd things happening in world. No one seems to be reporting them or talking about them here on the Forums, but they are there. Maybe Nika will set us straight on all these ideas. ~Cheers

Okay, I move a little too fast, I admit. That was a direct copy/past from the Bloomberg Company Profile page for Linden Research, Inc. I offered the full list of the Press Releases only to show context by their dates, and well, Arm Treasury Data being the most recent, and most significant, and thus the most informative to our discussion here. Here is a snapshot of the relevant part of that page from https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/978281Z:US

Jerry, who is next to Elaine seated at the child's table: "I always hated that kid with a pony. I mean, who has a pony, anyway." Elderly hostess at the end of the table. "I had pony!" [Jerry's jaw drops.]. "When I was a little girl in Poland, we ALL had ponies. My sister had pony.... My cousins had pony...." OoooKayyy theeen..., let me say here, we ALL love ponies on this forum! Yes, WE ALL DO! Okay??

Look, am I the only once who sees it?? Okay here: ----------------------- Press Releases Upland Enters Strategic Agreement With Tilia May 21, 2020 Arm Treasure Data Launches New CDP Capabilities and Unlocks Value for Customers Such as Linden Lab and Anheuser-Busch InBev Apr 22, 2020 Vivox, Inc. Embeds Real-Time Voice Communications in Virtual Feb 2, 2009 OK, you got it now?? HINT: "Arm Treasure Data CDP." Apr 22, 2020. Any bells in your brains going off yet? Try this: "Linden Lab improves marketing ROI by 300% using personalization features from Arm Treasure Data CDP" Ok, that's cool. THUS, with that little improvement LL was ready to sell. Nothing wrong in that. Now as to that purchase, and what we the player base might expect? Well, let's look at ARM Treasure Data. Oooh... we all like treasures don't we ?? "Through the Arm Treasure Data CDP and new Customer Journey Orchestration features, Linden Lab will be able to make purchasing journeys more actionable across the hundreds of touchpoints for thousands of players." https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/978281Z:US https://www.treasuredata.com/press_release/arm-treasure-data-launches-new-cdp-capabilities/ ... and on it goes. Figure it out for yourselves ~ciao EDIT: I left this cool resource off >>>. https://www.youtube.com/c/TreasureData/videos ~May the Force be adequate to flush every toilet!

Conclusion: Arm Treasure Data CDP What it means to YOU: Look for targeted ads.

Yeh. Not offered as an excuse -- I'm no creator. Just a pertinent fact. She would soon take that lovely closet back up.

Believe me, if you lined a nice closet with rezzed mesh clothing (which would look cool) the LI on your parcel would be severely taxed. Way more than your furniture!

“But my emails?!” Oh wait, wrong quote. “Assets? What assets!?” Hmmm, no, try this one. “It’s the data, stupid!” Darn, Is that even a quote? Okay, this. “Mining is the gold!” Ahh, let’s get on with it. No wait, one more! “SL was data before data was cool!” Alright, then add this one, “Research. The word was “Research!" NOW we have it. And so let's go at it this way: [Warning: Not for Chat ] Years and years of mining fields, yield riches of patterns untold. — anonymous field mouse Brothers and sisters, we have been SOLD, dragged aboard some mutant ship of unknown entity. How will we be used? Who can know!? And NOW, oh heavens!… the head office sees my words and grumbles, “Who IS this bigmouth, Lancewae Barrowstone!? Pull up the data! ALL OF IT! Hmmm…oh I see what this creep has been up to. Hah!…. *mutant orange fingeroids rub together gleefully, while some octopus arm of a tongue wets hideous, flatulent flappers of a meat-rotted mouth. Then, he calls out to the “girl” out front*. “Sweet-cheeks (a little alien misogyny here?) bring me the Tilia files on this clown.” “SIR!?” she gasps. “Yes, you can do it! Pull out your stylus drawer and the number is taped to the bottom and then get your little tushy in HERE with that DATA file! Heheh!… oh yessssss…. years of it. Ohh! This human lives in a hovel! I see it on Gmaps. Oh look, here is the ex-wife’s home. Now SHE got the nice house. Hmmm phone number? Credit card is still good, what is SHE up to in that nice neighborhood down in El Salvador! Maybe i check with DEA. Let’s see what else I can put together…oh Myyyy my my!” Just kidding, Randall and Brad! You know I’m just kidding here right? Right? And my fellows here, have some mercy on all of them too?? I’m pretty sure they need it. We are ALL sold down the galaxy now! [End of NFC transmission] ~ goes silent ~ Then, the colored flag somewhere on a once bobbing buoy in the far reaches off San Francisco Bay sinks silently now from sight. A little voice from shore calls out, “Do no fear change; embrace it!” A hobbling old crabber bent under his dripping nets grumbles, “Change must earn faith.” But no one hears. A sweety in her St. Tropez hat leans to a friend, “Did you hear Peter’s mumbling in the boardroom that Big Data knows more about people than they know about themselves?” “What an ass,” her friend adds, adjusting her “Alphabet” Tshirt. “He also said, ‘Here, we get into peoples’ minds! Why would any company throw that away?’ Meh, if only he was better looking.” She sips something from a colored straw. “I know; and owned a Model 3,” her friend sighed. In the old man’s net one crab turns to another, “A chat platform is unbelievably rich.” The other crab only issued an ooze of foamy bubbles from its mandible-like mouth. Wisdom is worth little inside a net. And so the sun set. Golden today.

Yes, Memes are way larger than how the internet produces them. To see the truer work of memes in our world is to look at the political parties in the U.S. Both use them. And sadly, a nation feeds on them -- either one brand or the other. CHeers to the meme!! Cotton candy for the masses.