Madelaine McMasters

http://art.missouristate.edu/electronicarts.aspx http://programs.unisa.edu.au/public/pcms/Course.aspx?pageid=007708 http://www.csuchico.edu/art/programs/bfaElectronicArts.shtml http://catalog.rpi.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=9&poid=1936&returnto=206 http://www.linfield.edu/catalog/departments/department-details.html?dept=EART http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/aa/catalog/current/cota/film/fea_ba02.html http://www.bard.edu/academics/programs/programs.php?id=749994&pid=760 I see a conspiracy by institutions of higher education to confuse our teens! ;-).

Celestiall Nightfire wrote: Do you find how a food looks affects how it tastes? I do. I also find that how a thing looks affects how it sounds... And with only two ears, we can locate sound sources in 3D space... And what we've already heard affects what we'll hear next... http://gizmodo.com/this-audio-illusion-will-make-you-never-trust-your-ears-1593113324# Ain't Nature grand? (Seeing/hearing may be believing, but it's not knowing). Maybe by the time the snow flies I'll have time to attend one of your Science soirées! ;-).

LordHappycat wrote: Assumptions only get you so far. People are so conclusive as to assume what people's emotions are. I'd have to say, you're far off from thinking I'm even remotely angry. If anything, I'm mostly astounded that the community in these forums just take things out of context and still run with them. I have nothing to prove and show. I'm not responsible for your persception. If you wish to believe that I'm angry and if it helps make you sleep better at night. So be it. Because that's what everyone just generalizes when someone comes up with rational thought and is in the minority against the blunt majority. So I recall nothing and with that I'm pretty much done here. I've only acted that reflected one's obliviousness. So, enjoy that to think about. :3 Anger was your plausible deniability card, you should have bucked up and played it.

LordHappycat wrote: "As for architecture, I'm glad to know that I can merely swap out parts to turn the Empire State building into the Taj Mahal." Then shut up and do it. Because that wasn't my point, idiot. Maybe while you're doing it, you'll have the crushing weight of a whole structure destroy your idiocy once and for all. :3 Recall that I said your anger would work against you, compromising your ability to reason. It has done precisely that, and in grand fashion. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone in the forums (or anywhere else, I suspect) that considers Parhelion an idiot, though there is a least one person who thinks I am an idiot, and might enjoy your company. I don't think I've ever met an idiot. I imagine they're rare. I've met people who are angry, sometimes as a result of encountering me. I've met people who are careless, often as a result of being angry. And that gives me the power to make people careless. It's not a super power, but it's useful. Your response to Par violates the SL Terms Of Service you claim not to have accepted. I won't AR your response, though you might hope someone else does. Rawr!

Gawain Galtier wrote: It's working wonderfully! I will try to fine tune it as suggested. You're the best, and I really don't know how to thank you adequately. If you're ever in the market for a new friend, you have one in me! Thank you thank you and wishing you an awesome weekend, Gawain Rolig is the best, and can't resist a good puzzle. Keep that weakness in mind. ;-).

LordHappycat wrote: What competition is there? IMVU? lol They're partially responsible for making that foundation shaky. So it is their responsibility to fix it, not abandon it. I will not simply try and accept SL as something that was hyped up to be everything it's barely even a quarter of. All for the expense of waiting 11 years to suddenly now decide to do something new? No, that's just blantly unacceptable. They're already delaying development as it is within themselves to make the current product better. Don't put this blame on the community that serves as some of the blood for those developers to give ideas and suggestions to that they haven't thought of. There have been instances over time where some of the same products still withstand the test of time and age well. I'm not saying this applies to everything. But I think it's a matter LL continually overshoots and underestimates year in and year out. We're talking about future competition, just as we're talking about a future VW from LL. Somebody is going to lure us away from SL, and that may be somebody we've never heard of. You are also thinking too narrowly. Facebook and good weather are also current and future competition for SL. Competing virtual worlds are likely to be built on more modern foundations, allowing more rapid improvement until they too run out of gas and must be rethought. Linden Lab has no responsibility to fix the shaky foundation. It's naive to think they do, particularly as they told you they don't in the TOS (Thanks, Coby!) and you clicked "Accept". If that's blatantly unacceptable, then are you blatantly self contradictory? Perhaps you blatantly ignored the TOS when accepting it? I did (and I bet we're not the only ones) and so I don't complain about it. You've shown me no evidence you understand software engineering, so I think your claim that LL can make the current system enough better to remain competitive is an uninformed opinion. Mine may be slightly better informed. There have been many discussions here about SL architectural deficiencies, from databases to graphics architectures to systems integration. Some of the technologies on which SL is based are no longer being actively improved by their originators and some have been surpassed by superior alternatives that cannot simply be swapped in. And none of us know what will be required to remain competitive next year, as next year's competition is not yet known to us. The concurrency charts suggest that SL has not been competitive for five years, even though they've been working on it. I think that's why Ebbe and the Lindens are willing to try something new. As for the longevity of technical products, Microsoft abandoned DOS, Win3.x, Win95, Win2000, and recently WinXP, which is about the age of SL. Apple abandoned 68K applications a decade ago and PowerPC applications a few years ago. They'll probably abandon the iPhone 4 this year. Analog TV and cell phones are gone, as is most magnetic tape and Intel Indeo (DVI) encoded video. HD-DVD lasted only a few years and Blu-Ray may not last 20. There's a long history of technology products being set out to pasture. Is all that blatantly unacceptable? I agree that LL has overpromised and underdelivered in the past. They may do so again in the future. That's also not unusual in the tech industry. Where's the flying car my Dad was promised? Your insinuation that I'm putting blame on the community has no basis in fact. I've blamed no one for anything. If change angers you, be aware that anger clouds thinking, placing you at a disadvantage in a rational discussion. Also be aware that I'm nefarious. ;-).

LL can't take SL to where they want to go because the foundation is shaky. To build a competitive new virtual world, they have to start from scratch. Your request reminds me of the quote that Henry Ford never uttered. "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said "a faster horse"." Your suggestion that they delay development of a new virtual world would surely please LL's competitors. The moment something better than SL arrives, many of us will flock to it. Why would you want LL to forfeit the game?

Perrie Juran wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: <snip> A few years ago, I accidentally discovered that taking my neighbor for a ride on my tandem bicycle qualifies as an "other thing". She asked me to pull over and stop because she felt "weird". As she fanned herself, I realized that "weird" was a euphamism. She never rode with me again. I continue to enjoy riding. A lot. ;-). Women are not the only ones who can get a weird feeling.

Thomas Galbreus wrote: Drake1 Nightfire wrote: How do you know they are acting. How do you know they don't actually make those noises when they orgasm? You know, some people have experienced real female orgasms, so they have something to compare. If you are interested in experiencing real female orgasms, try other things with female bodies than using them like a sex toy. I don't think Drake is likely to ever experience a real female orgasm. He's got the wrong plumbing. I think I could make just about any noise imaginable, though this one remains on my bucket list... A few years ago, I accidentally discovered that taking my neighbor for a ride on my tandem bicycle qualifies as an "other thing". She asked me to pull over and stop because she felt "weird". As she fanned herself, I realized that "weird" was a euphamism. She never rode with me again. I continue to enjoy riding. A lot. ;-).

Unless you're a bowling pin, you've nothing little to fear.

Hi Darkinian, I'll guess you are trying to use your e-mail account password on the page where you change e-mail addresses. That's NOT the password the page is looking for. It wants your SL account password, to verify that you're really the owner of the SL account on which you are changing the password. The web page is poorly designed, so confusion is to be expected. You should never enter your e-mail password anywhere other than when logging into your e-mail service. If you really are using your SL password on that page, it may be a browser glitch. Try using Chrome or Firefox, SL doesn't like Internet Explorer Be careful!

Hippie, I told Val she should sit in the back seat while I drove her to market cuz it's safer. But she didn't want to sit back there by herself and started tugging on my tail. Now I can't reach the steering wheel... I think we'll need a li'l help. Happy Friday, Kids!!!

Hi Clara, Rolig's right. Second Life requires a computer that meets these requirements... https://secondlife.com/support/system-requirements/ There is a way around this that may work with your Chromebook. SLGo is a service of OnLive that runs the SL viewer on a remote computer in a closet somewhere in California. That computer then (hopefully) streams video to your Chromebook. You can find out more about it here... http://slgo.onlive.com The service costs US$9.95/month and there is a free seven day trial. Good luck!

Go get some caffeine... http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Texture_Console http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Image_System http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Talk:Texture_Cache

Now that Val's nursing a busted paw, we're gonna have to take turns pushing her all over creation, Hippie... Happy Thursday, Kids!!!

Hi buzz, If the person you sent the money to doesn't wish to return it, there's nothing you can do. To avoid mistyping the name in the future, copy and paste it from another source. I keep an electronic notepad on my computer for just such things. Be careful!

Celestiall Nightfire wrote: Monalisa Robbiani wrote: Really, that's whyFacebook,Google, Apple, Disney,flickr, Yahoo,Skype etc. are niche products whileSL has billions of users, private and corporate. Oh wait, it's the opposite. It's the adult content that cripplesSL to a niche for "socially inept weirdos" you better not talk about. None of those products are creative virtual worlds. Those other products aren't even comparable to each other, let alone to SL. Those are ridiculous ananolgies. I'm not a socially inept weirdo, nor are the people, with which I associate in SL. On the contrary, they're mostly highly social, educated, and cosmopolitan people in RL...and they happen to also be in SL. If you identity with the "socially inept weirdo" label, then that's your own personal problem. (perception) Wait! When did this happen? Can we still be friends?!

Thomas Galbreus wrote: Freya Mokusei wrote: they wouldn't disallow anything that is currently legal It may well be that with Hillary Clinton a declared feminist will be president by then. Many feminists have an anti-porn stance, and with good reason. I wouldn't be surprised if at least effecitive age verification gets written into the US law, making the current situation in SL illegal also in the US. I might write HC an e-mail. ;-) http://adobochronicles.com/2014/06/10/amazon-goofs-sends-porn-video-to-online-purchasers-of-hillary-clintons-new-book/ And for real... http://www.ibtimes.com/former-hillary-clinton-intern-turned-porn-star-292335

valerie Inshan wrote: Good morning Hippie, Maddy and all! Sighs. I badly broke my paw foot on Sunday and will be stuck at home for 45 days... Now this really sucks! (not to mention how bad my boss is pi$$ed at me). Hugs you and waves! Val? Why the hell would you break your foot? And if you were going to do so, why did you do it badly? Mom fractured her ankle in May. She's back to normal now, but oscillated between ornery and apologetic during her recuperation with me here at home. Don't do that. Just pick ornery and stick with it. I know how to handle ornery. Put that foot up and have some chicken juice. Hippie, make sure she drinks it. Happy pique of the week, Kids!!!

Jeffrey reminds me of the neighbor kid, who's spending the summer with me before he heads off to college again. He's the kind that does before thinking, and so can cause more harm than good when he offers to help. Yet I bite my tongue and suffer the damage sometimes, just to help him learn. We're saints, Freya. We're absolute saints. ;-).

Hi LuEllen, I don't know of a way to measure the prim count of a thing other than by rezzing it. You can do that at a public sandbox, like Fermi. Good luck!

Hi Carolina, I can think of several ways someone could find you: If you continue to visit favorite places from your past, people who know of them have a chance of finding you there. If you frequent new places you've listed in your picks or groups, you've made it easier to find you. If you have friends who know your ex, they may be passing your whereabouts to him. If you are wearing any attachments that were given to you by your ex, it's possible one or more contains a tracking script. Keep your head down!

Hi Red, You got the limits and history of linking from Pam and Rolig, and Pam mentioned the alight function. I'll let ex-Linden Qarl explain that... Have fun!

Okay, yesterday was all about freezing my bum in Lake Michigan. Today is about mowing the lawn... Happy Tuesday, Kids!!!

Ciao Maria, Se ho capito bene, un individuo anonimo sta dando dollari Linden a voi. Questo denaro potrebbe essere stato rubato. Ho sentito storie di gente di hacking conti e quindi la distribuzione di denaro a sconosciuti. Questo ha portato a Linden Lab di bloccaggio conti fino a quando il denaro può essere recuperato. Non spendere quei soldi. Linden Lab può riprenderlo. Vi suggerisco di presentare una "Segnalazione abuso" contro la persona che ha inviato il denaro. Spiega cosa è successo nella casella di testo "Dettagli" e lasciare che Linden Lab capirlo. Buona fortuna! If I understand correctly, an anonymous individual is giving Linden dollars to you. This money may have been stolen. I have heard stories of people hacking accounts and then distributing money to strangers. This has resulted in Linden Lab locking accounts until the money can be recovered. Do not spend that money. Linden Lab may take it back. I suggest you file an "Abuse Report" against the person who sent you the money. Explain what happened in the "Details" text box and let Linden Lab figure it out.