Madelaine McMasters

Monti Messmer wrote: At work i have an 18" CRT. Boss "Bigger screens dont speed up work u just want to watch ......" lol Sorry for that excurse back to topic. Monti Monti Messmer wrote: At work i have an 18" CRT. Boss "Bigger screens dont speed up work u just want to watch ......" lol Sorry for that excurse back to topic. Monti I had this discussion with my colleagues. Some of them thought that getting the fastest CPU was important. I argued that having a bigger screen was more important, except under certain circumstances. I continue to believe that. The time I waste moving stuff around on a cramped desktop can't be made up by a fast CPU. Graphics or compute intensive things like SL or gene sequencing argue for speedy chips, but for everything else, give me an expansive display.

Dillon Levenque wrote: I was going to ask, "But what if one is only a paramecium in a puddle even in SL?", but I probably don't wanna know.:smileywink: As one who is only an amoeba in SL, I can comfort myself with this...

Monti Messmer wrote: 2 or 3 monitors ? Good lord posh folks One 24" monitor - widescreen what makes a difference to old 16:9 Monti It helps to use those two or three monitors for work, then you can rationalize almost anything. ;-)

I checked 27" but that only tells part of the story. My main 27" iMac (2560x1440) uses my old 27" iMac (2560x 1440) as a monitor on the left unless I'm also using that iMac for SL. I also have a 28" (1920x1200) display to the right. I'll also agree that pixels are more important than inches. I'd love to have a single 8Kx4K 32" monitor. But even with all my screen real estate, I truly dislike both the large size of the SL UI elements and the inability to drag them out of the app window. When running other apps, I often drag lesser used control windows out to the side monitors. SL is one of the few apps I use which is confined to a single window. ETA: I just did a quick check of applications I use often. SL is the ONLY one that is confined to a single window.

Folds up her easel and takes a seat in the audience to watch the beginning of SL as we'll know it. ;-)

Janelle Darkstone wrote: ( Okay, I'll stop. Just extremely bored and with way too much time on my hands today... :smileywink: )

Sephina Frostbite wrote: NOOB SOUNDING ALERT!! Whats linking? Most of the things you see in SL are made of more than one prim. To keep those prims together in one single object, they must be linked. If you've rezzed multiple prims, you shift-click on them while in edit mode. Each prim you click on while the shift key is down gets added to the growing collection. The last prim you click on this way will be the root-prim when you finally select "Link" from the edit window. The root prim is like the foundation of the linkset. When you later wish to move the linkset, the root-prim's center is where you'll find the editing axes. Building is great fun, Sephina. If you'd like help learning, Hippie and his friends offer classes.

FIFY = Fuzzy Innie? Freaking Yucky! Who are you going to believe?

16 wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: ...sits on your front porch and looks all humble. you can come inside and stay bc you must be really poor but .... !! you have to learn to get up really early ok. bc we even more poor. so the usual rules ok. like first up. best dressed but .... more !! Janelle moved in already ok. so have to get even earlier now than before. bc since she move in then is now: first up. best dressed. and fresher breakfast jejejjjejejejje (: You go ahead and believe that the first to rise does best while I make sure I'm the last to fall asleep. ;-)

Dillon Levenque wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: Dillon Levenque wrote: 16 wrote: + I think I better invade your lands before you serf start breeding. bc my massive army of one is not much outnumbered at this time Egad. I shall alert the Border guards. Just as soon as I have some. And you have more than one border. It's that damn road: they can come at me from either direction! I tried putting up barricades but the Lab keeps sending them back to me. I don't need a road.

Dillon Levenque wrote: 16 wrote: + I think I better invade your lands before you serf start breeding. bc my massive army of one is not much outnumbered at this time Egad. I shall alert the Border guards. Just as soon as I have some. And you have more than one border.

Strawberry Singh wrote: Since you guys were wondering, I thought I'd share a raw shot of the picture, with no photoshop: http://grabilla.com/03314-8eeb085f-a48e-4ba3-aa94-ce9562793a12.png Also yes, those are the SLink mesh feet, all of my style credits to that image are available on my blog here: http://strawberrysingh.com/2013/02/20/secondlife-com-spring And I'm not always half naked, sometimes I wear more clothes. Thanks to everyone for appreciating the pic! <3 Sometimes I wear less, Strawberry. Like two bird's nests and a pocketwatch. And I am forever thankful to you for finding the hair I've been wearing for nearly two years. I don't look as quite as good as you did modeling it, but that was never my intention. It's as me as I've ever seen. ;-)

I will not swoon. I will not swoon. I will not...

Perrie Juran wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: Just like I said - I do look good in pjnk Do you do fashion consultations? Sometimes I think I could really use some help. Stop it you two, I'm going to get the vapors!

Treasure Ballinger wrote: That was surely taken at the Cartel hangout, see the sofas and table with the kitty, in the background. You were lovely, Phil. :matte-motes-sunglasses-3: ... swoons. Yep, that's the Cartel Hangout. I recognize the railing, which left an indelible impression in my derriere (from sitting on it!).

Orca Flotta wrote: Impossible. That's not even a SL avie. The depicted girl in the graphic has no skin and painted hair, so what do you expect to achieve? A badly silk-screen printed avatar? My RL self is not an SL avie, nor is the Peanuts' character Lucy Van Pelt. I've mimicked both in SL as well as a cloud (not intentionally), a mouse, a ghost, a transparent hippie and Ms. Pac Man. I'm beaming over having done the impossible not only once, but many times!

Celestiall Nightfire wrote: Suspiria Finucane wrote: Celestiall Nightfire wrote: DissertationAnarchy wrote: I am currently doing my undergraduate dissertation in Human Geography. My dissertation is looking at SL as a space that does not have a state. Someone else in this thread mentioned feudalism, and that's a pretty good description, of how SL works. Feudalism; the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord’s land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection. SL is nothing like that. That's because you're taking the word to mean one thing. But "feudal" has a broader definition as a systemic structure. The word "feudalism", in the since that I , and several other people, used it here in this thread, is an analogy to the systemic structure of SL. Noble sim "owners" (who are actually renters) pay tier to the LL Crown, which gives them military service (full estate rights and a theoretically higher level of customer support). In turn, the Sim Nobles rent to the peasants (the rest of us) in exchange for the space we've rented, plus in some cases a subset of the Nobel's military protection (ban rights on the estate, perhaps more). There's room in that hierarchy for additional layers (fewer if you are on mainland and report directly to the Crown), but at virtually every layer, the control over what's below is very high. That's close enough to Feudalism for me.

Maryanne Solo wrote: Janelle Darkstone wrote: A Capybara (Hippotamusus Bucktoothus Moosus SansAntlerus) Thufferinthukotash me don't believe that and Im not even going to google it lol. Your text is as good as your cartoons Janelle Ye of little faith. Janelle is absolutely correct. Within the same genus, there is a related and complimentary species called the YogiBerra (Deja-vu'us Repiticus). While not as vicious as the predatory capybara, the Yogi is a cunning scavenger. The capybara's clearly predatory look and demeanor makes it easy to spot for prey, and so it must depend on sheer speed and maneuverability to make a kill. A capybara sprinting at full speed moves its legs so fast that you can't see them, but their hum is unmistakable. The Yogi's chameleon-like abilities allow it to masquerade as a tourist, boarding Carnival cruise liners undetected. Once aboard, the Yogi wreaks havoc with ships engines and generators, causing passengers to panic. It then seizes the opportunity to sate it's revenous appetite on all the spoiled foodstuffs left behind in the ship's galley. The Yogi's life cycle encapsulates the phases that delineate separate subspecies of capybara. A young male Yogi will grow a set of antlers which, later in life, fall off as the adult tusks come in. Here is an adolescent YogiBerra... And a wiley adult... Ain't nature grand?

valerie Inshan wrote: 11:35 AM for me: that's definately Tuesday. *shouts WAKE UP GUYS!!! HAPPY TUESDAY!" ...pulls the pillow over her head and goes back to sleep.

Hippie Bowman wrote: Good morning all! Happy Tuesday! Peace! It's too early to be Tuesday! Who gets up at this hour?

16 wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: Qie Niangao wrote: On the other hand, humility, combined with self-confidence, is sexy as hell. Humility, combined with self-confidence, eh? Okay... I bet I'm twice as humble as you are! Ben Franklin wrote: In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history (MM: his autobiography); for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility. or ..... !!! can be humbled by how much proud you got like: gosh!! I got so much proud I don't know what to do with it all. am truly humbled by how much blessed I am. not like them other people who not got any. so am going to share my leftover prouds with them. then I be even more humble jejejejee (: ...sits on your front porch and looks all humble.

... notes that Lia's minutes are a bit longer than her own.

Qie Niangao wrote: On the other hand, humility, combined with self-confidence, is sexy as hell. Humility, combined with self-confidence, eh? Okay... I bet I'm twice as humble as you are! Ben Franklin wrote: In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history (MM: his autobiography); for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

So long as all the objects rotate about the same axis, and only that axis, everything will work. If you don't mind ignoring off-axis rotations of celestial bodies such as the Earth, an orrery is easy to make. I suspect the OP has something else in mind. llTargetOmega is a viewer side operation that rotates a prim about the orientation that prim has at invocation. So long as every object in a linkset is rotating about one and the same axis, that axis' orientation does not change and all the children spin correctly (which rarely happens in RL). ETA: As Carbon notes, hierarchical linking is not possible in SL, so all child prims must orbit the root, though they can spin at different rates. If you wanted to construct different orbital periods for the children, you'd have to co-locate multiple parent-child (sun-planet) objects, each with different root-prim rotation rates. ETA2: I'm in-world at the moment, trying to locate Pandora Wrigglesworth's orrery at her Curio Obscura store. I recall scratching my head over hers years ago, so she may have done something we all think is impossible. ETA3: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Curio-Obscura-Orrery-Lamp/614995 It might be worth getting one to get a glimpse of how Pandora did it. She's got a tilted Earth in her orrery. I expect all the planets orbit and rotate at different rates. My understanding of the limits of SL would require this to be a collection of separate Sun/Planet linksets, but I recall my headscratching resulted from looking at this thing in-world and seeing that it was one linkset.

Peggy Paperdoll wrote: So my $L5,798,992 linden balance doesn't impress you? What a pity..............LOL ...sits on your front porch and looks all destitute.