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Here's what happens with a 4GB Windows 7 32 bit set up... Windows will consume ~700MB once you have typical things like anti virus loaded. The SL viewer rapidly gets to around 1GB or more. Load something like Photoshop at the same time or similar and that 3GB that is addressable is full. At this point as the viewer starts to take more memory or they load a web browser or two and the machine starts to swap badly and gets VERY sluggish. This was the sole reason I ended up spending some money on a complete hardware change. I'm definitely with Chelsea. The spec you quote is insufficient for sensible use of SL. Yes it works, you can enjoy low graphics but most people aren't interested in trying hard to optimise for a single task that just about struggles to run in 1GB or 2GB of memory and their experience will be poor.

Hatchet Vernon wrote: Try not to insult the creators of a game (world) you enjoy. If you enjoy it, you should be glad they made it, and willing to accept what changes they make to their creation, because they have every right to do with it what they will. Don't forget that some people PAY money to the lab so that they can be permitted to play with the labs train set. Not only do people pay money, they invest time and resources into businesses here. Most businesses would not survive if they adopted the change control (or lack of) that LL implements. It's one thing to say that SL is fun and we enjoy it (as do I) but it's another to put LL on a pedestal almost implying that we're not worthy and should be grateful they bothered. They are a company in business to make money. We pay that money, that seems often forgotten.

Scylla Rhiadra wrote: I would agree, generally, that you are probably correct about this, although I'd point out that the UK is at least as uptight as North America about these things. I certainly buy that Continental Europeans are more open about sexuality; it is really true that they are also more tolerant of violence? In that sentence, you have outlined just how little you appear to be aware of the attitudes in the UK. Newspapers with female nipples on page 3, nipples on TV, nude beaches. Films that don't get slashed like they do in the US. No I don't think the UK is anywhere near as uptight as North America. Further, to make an automatic assumption that BDSM is about violence, shows little comprehension and is about as valid is saying anyone that doesn't have kinky sex must go to church every Sunday.

One of the complaints was... "nobody else can see the video on the TV except me". Expected of all media in SL, they have to turn on their media too!

This http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Merchants/Suggestion-for-Marketplace-feature/td-p/852769 and the JIRA mentioned within it would have gone a LONG way to preventing this and other instances like it.

Well if it only fits you and nobody else particularly well then it's possible that you have a very different shape to the majority? Most here are stupidly tall but if you use one of the default SL avatar shapes and work on something close to that, you can at least claim to aim for a default shape in the same way that animators often use the default SL character meshes for use in animations. You can't make animations to suit all sizes either. Once you've got something that is a good reference, do one thing... leave prim parts modify! At the end of the day we are all different shapes and sizes and you can build to a reference but let others fix for their own dimensions. Please please don't assume that dropping in resize scripts is a catch all solution because they're woefully inadequate and an insult to those who want to make something look great on themselves. I've heard all sorts of excuses from "they'll copybot me" to "I don't want the extra support if they break it" or "if they edit it badly it makes my creation look bad". So, if someone has a no mod item and absolutely need it to fit, they're pretty much driven to copybot just to get a modify ability, make it copy/mod and there's your support gone. Just copy then edit. If you think it makes the item look bad because someone else has badly modified it, is that different from it looking bad because it can't be made to fit in the first place? By all means put a single script resizer in but leave it modify for those of us who want it to REALLY fit. At the end of the day it's your choice but please also make sure the item advert correctly reflects the permissions and that the description is accurate if they're mixed. It's annoying to buy something that said it was modify when the reality is it has a script to reszie. That is not modify! Nor should the listing say MOD when only some of it is mod, that's why there's a choice for "see item description" for mixed permissions. Don't fall into the copybot paranoia, it can be copybotted whether it's no mod or not.

"People can see my items well enough to know they won't find anything better for less in-world" Well it's true, you can't get less than L$0 so at that point the quality becomes irrelevant somewhat. I'm not sure that this "business" really qualifies as being a merchant though rather just a philantropic gesture to give away things. If you can operate in the real world with the same ethos of charging nothing for your time and yet still live in a house that has been paid for and with all the other trappings then you've done well. I find that my mortgage provider takes a view that I should pay a bit of money to keep my part of the bargain. Same with fuel for the car, I've thought of just driving away because i'm sure the filling station just wants me to have the fuel but i've not dared try it ... yet. FREE is not really a business unless it's a part of the delivery upon which other business models exist, Google, Facebook, commercial TV to the consumer etc. "the deadbeats who don't want to pay for their accounts." Yay, i'm a deadbeat then because i'm not a premium account

For what it's worth Brooke, my March sales were the best for 6 months... INWORLD, so what's with the "seasonal decline" thing? I also question the value of "moderate". Given that anything that's "for the purpose of erotic role play" is adult, that pretty much makes lingerie adult and if only 5% of content is in this moderate category, why bother? Why didn't you just rename it to adult and be done with it? Most importantly, may we have a guarantee that with AIS, you plan on maintaining (and enhancing) the existing ANS mechanism? Presently we manage that from the xstreet website, a legacy hang on and had to fight to convince the commerce team that YES, some of us do use ANS reporting and it's damn important to us. Further, assuming that you do provide this, please also provide an ANS event that is sent when the Marketplace fails to deliver and refunds, at present it does not thus giving up false data to our log systems since it only logs the initial sale and is thus not correclty logging a transaction where a transaction should be assumed to be atomic.

"If you have a purchase problem of any nature whereby you are entitled to a Refund, the Merchant is able to provide you 100% of your purchase price back. If you have the same issue from an SLM sale, the Merchant can only offer you 95% of your purchase as a refund. Why? Because LL has the other 5%. So if you are looking for $1000L refund, the Merchant can only offer you $950L of it – he doesn’t have the rest." I'm going to be pedantic here and disagree with the choice of words because they are after all inaccurate. You state that the merchant "can only offer 95%". Sorry, that's plain wrong and a bit of a silly statement, I can choose to offer 100% and do, or I can offer 200% or any value actually it's entirely up to me, as it is any other merchant. The fact that LL has 5% is what a business would consider as a "cost of business". What about those merchants that charge their inworld price PLUS 5% to cover the commission cost. Should they give it all back since they charged extra to cover it? Think of it as an advertising fee, I don't care if it's called that or not, the point is that it's a cost, same as if I rent a mall spot and I have to refund something that someone bought there, do I say "I can only give you 95% back because I have to keep some to pay for the cost of the mall spot"? No, I don't, do you? However, i'm not against the suggestion that there should be an "issue refund" button on the marketplace web page for the merchant to use which did a 95% refund from the merchant and a grab on the 5% from Marketplace Linden but there isn't so i'll continue to just shrug and consider it a cost of business until then. (I'm not holding my breath)