Madelaine McMasters

16 wrote: you have to jump 9 times Or once...

16 wrote: so i want a axe You're welcome to use my tomahawk.

Ooooh, so many places for me to set up house! #2 is mislabeled, this is actually the view from my RL bedroom... I'm a terrible housekeeper.

You are not imagining it. I think there are at least a couple reasons for this: 1) SL isn't growing, so one cannot use that as a rationalization for the time and effort expended on content creation for sale. You can only hope that SL's dwindling population increasingly consists of people who love to buy things (or that you can compete by growing your skills beyond those of other creators, which I'll address in #2). But I think that's not likely. I don't imagine SL will escape the demographic effects of reduced "immigration". If fewer new people enter SL (akin to declining birth/immigration rate in RL), the average age of SL residents will drift higher. If you back out health care costs for RL people, spending declines with age. I don't know if the same holds true for SL residents, but it's certainly true for me. The items in my inventory do not wear out, so I've no reason to replace them. So, we have a declining base of customers who are perhaps less likely to buy. That's hardly fertile soil for growing creators. 2) LL forgot Philip Rosedale's vision of SL as a virtual tinker-toy set that anyone could use to build. While we still have basic prims and library textures which allow residents to build in-world with a set of tools and materials common to everyone, the best looking and most resource efficient constructions now require the use of sophisticated out-of-this-world creation tools. I think that discourages widespread creation because additional steep learning curves are added to a would-be creator's journey and because creation becomes a largely solo effort. While I'm quite happy to work by myself in quiet, I've also had great fun building in-world in collaboration with others, or teaching them. SL was never easy, but imagine how much more difficult it becomes to teach students when the best tools can't be used (or demonstrated) in-world. It's ironic to watch the RL excitement over the arrival of affordable 3D printing. Although it's largely hype (as was SL in the early days), not a week goes by without some story in the news about how we'll all soon be able to build amazing things for ourselves, right in our own homes. Meanwhile, as mesh encroaches, it becomes harder (external tools) or more expensive (land impact of prim builds) to make amazing things in SL. On absolute terms, creation in SL is still simpler than in RL, but amazement is a relative thing. How odd that "Your world, your imagination" might be easier to obtain from a MakerBot than from Second Life. ETA: new creators are also in competition with the generosity of older ones who free their creations into the wild when they leave.

Tira Moonwing wrote: I have been using SL on the same old laptop since I joined. With the major updates LL has been doing I have been unable to view mesh (I am sure some of you have experienced this) and when I downloaded and tried all the mesh-compatable viewers no luck in starting; all I get is a black screen where the log-in screen should be. So I have been stuck using an old viewer with mesh mess all over the place. I have been just staying local and trying to avoid mesh wherever I go. And the lag has gotten worse but I know computers cannot last forever and technology must keep moving forward. Now I have decided it is time for a new system but I am totally lost as to where to begin. I thought if i drop by here someone might have some advice to give. My friend told me I will need a 3k (USD) system but that is a bit out of my price range. I appreciate any suggestions you might have. Thanks Hi Tira, Hopefully others will chime in here as well, but it seems that the best SL experience comes from having a computer with a speedy graphics chip, and that nVIDIA chips run better than others. The nVIDIA website lists laptop computers that use their various chipsets. Their most recent high end chip family, which gets good reviews from SL users, ranges from the GeForce 660M through the GeForce 680MX. One step down from that starts with the GeForce 620M and goes through the GeForce 750M. There is a table of devices on this page... http://www.nvidia.in/object/geforce_family_in.html If you click on a chip in that family under "Notebooks", you'll be taken to a page that lists, near the bottom of the page, laptop computers containing it. Some of the chips are too new to be in a laptop yet, so you'll not see anything listed. Good luck!

Janelle Darkstone wrote (to Sephina Frostbite): You look great! :smileytongue: Hey, what about me? I'm showing some serious finger in my badge!

Sephina Frostbite wrote: Thanks Madeline!!! It worked!! /me bows to your awesomeness! You're welcome! Now that I can see all of your badge, I can say it was worth the effort... for both of us. ;-)

I'm watching you! I'll be the second or so to know if you get it to work. ;-) ETA: I just went through the process myself and see I missed some steps! You have to go to the "Avatars" tab, then select "From Uploaded Images" then click on "My Images page" (which is a bolded link in the paragraph of instructions on that tab), then click "Add Images" and locate the PNG you saved on your PC. Then go back to the "From Uploaded Images" page and locate and select the empty image you just uploaded. ETA2: I saw that!

Sephina Frostbite wrote: Thanks wont work.. maybe I am messing up.. but its okay thank you for the help. Hmm, let's keep at this. We'll get you there! Were you able to save the image I posted to your PC? Describe what's not working and we'll work through it.

Your forum badge constists of two images, the little "Avatar" over your bowling pin and the larger "Badge" image that you select in the "Social Connect" tab of your profile. I've attached a transparent image you should be able to use as your "Avatar" so that only your badge image will show. Click in the empty white space above this line and "Save as..." to your computer. Hopefully it'll be saved as a PNG file, retaining the transparency. Give it a sensible name, like "transparent", and keep the .PNG extension, which your browser has hopefully gleaned from the image. Then go to the "Avatar" tab of your profile and upload that image.

I uploaded a transparent PNG file as my "Avatar" image.

Google found this: http://www.secondinventory.com

Phil Deakins wrote: I'm astonished that so many versions of that song have been recorded. No doubt there are more that haven't made it onto YouTube - including Nina and Fred's version, of course. I think the Weeds television show is responsible for many of the covers of Little Boxes, but some tunes just wheedle their way in our collective consciousness, because of their sound and/or their message. I've traced other tunes through YouTube. Some have been going strong for hundreds of years. I recently looked into the musical call and response "Shave and a Haircut / Two Bits" and was delighted to find a rich history for that little seven note riff. I do like applying Malvina Reynolds' idea behind the song to life here in SL. One of the eureka moments we all share here is the discovery that we can build things out of... ...Little Boxes!

Okay, this goes on my favorites list... Here's a hip-hop version that I hope is lampooning itself. If not, then my age and whiteness are showing. The "Individuals" sound to me like most ticky tacky hip-hop groups. If they are a real band, their name is an eye-roller... The Womenfolk... Bomb the Music Industry with Little Boxes (of angst!)... The Thermals... Dierks Bentley... Hunter Parrish... Aimee Mann... Okay, I think I'm done... ... I think.

In all my sleuthing, I've not found a cover of "Little Boxes" that sounds like what I'm remembering. I'm not old enough to have remembered Little Boxes when it hit the charts, but I do listen to radio shows that cover music of that time and two local radio shows that does "Cover Nights" during which the DJs dig through the history of a song. I've found that so interesting that I now use YouTube to do that myself. There is apparently a TV show called "Weeds" that opens with versions of Little Boxes. Here's a YouTube playlist with 27 episode introduction covers, including many of those I posted earlier... I like many of them, but my favorites are Regina Spektor's, Malvina Reynold's, and Pete Seeger's (in that order, Regina is superb here). I suppose it gets more difficult as the Weeds epidsode count grows, as you have to work harder not to sound like the song is about your cover of it. And here's another adorable cover not in that playlist... I think Weeds' use of Little Boxes is brilliant and could be applied to SL, which is a mix of the ticky tacky described in the song and the wonderful imagination revealed in the various covers.

Perrie Juran wrote: Perhaps it would be better if LL made people submit to an IQ test before they could join. I'd only get half way in.

16 wrote: if is a tiny timer issue then can maybe try like float TIME_BETWEEN_DO = .08;state_entry(){ llSetTimerEvent(TIME_BETWEEN_DO); //start}timer(){ llSetTimerEvent(.0); //stop // do big long stuff ... llSetTimerEvent(TIME_BETWEEN_DO); //continue} I usually do timer events this way, unless the event handler looks to be faster than stopping and starting the timer, as I then don't have to worry about crashing the script if my event handler takes too long. It's difficult to determine how long an event handler will take to execute, both because of its internal complexity and external server lag. The resulting variabiility in firing rate is (to me at least) less problematic than script failure.

Dillon Levenque wrote: 16 wrote: Dillon Levenque wrote: 16 wrote: the peering over the glasses thing is not actual in the librarian manual of standards and deceny. is coy and unbecoming in young ladies is that peering thing and same for old lady librarians to do. bc all the coy got rubbed out of them already ages ago. they old battle axes by then. and is nothing coy about them at all by then. except when they are. and is horrible to watch when they do that so no. is not in librarian manual that part at all jejejeje (: Having been peered at by a librarian on more than one occasion (and by more than one librarian, too, but that would take me too far afield) I don't care whether it's in the manual or not. I liked it. ;-) you are defo so doomed you know. they going to put your picture up in in the library if you not careful (: and in the Librarians Gazette as well. in the o.m.g!!! section. altho i heard rumors that they going to remove that section from the Gazette. bc seems some people been treating it as some kinda kinky dating service. dunno how true that is tho. is just what i heard jjejeejejejeje (: I don't think they print the Gazette anymore here in the States, but either way I'll take my chances. My reason for replying was to respond to something else you said (and I know it was said in jest) that i'd missed but that actually does matter a bit. I refer to this: "...and same for old lady librarians to do. bc all the coy got rubbed out of them already ages ago." I remember being a teenager and reading about/hearing about old (like over 30) people having romantic connections. I just figured okay, fine, they're all cuddly but it's nothing like the earthshaking soulsearing things I experience. Turned out that was not the case. It hits with the same force at alll ages. If a young person ever asks me about love I'll tell her/him that it never stops. It certainly does not.

Even with these advances in face animation, which might bridge the uncanny valley, there's the problem of figuring out what expression the face should have. If doing it from text, the computers will have the same problems we do. They'll screw up the translation and we're right back at the bottom of the valley again. People have a hard enough time reading me, particularly when I'm in a satirical mood, imagine the fits I'll give an algorithm. When the expressions are professionally choreographed (which would not be the case in a real-time situation) it might work, but in SL it would be a disaster. We've got a long way to go. ETA: Texting overtook voice as the preferred communications method for phones back in the summer of 2010 (or maybe it was 2011, either way calling them "phones" is now wrong). Some of that was because we like the added control that texting gives us, the easier etiquette and the ability to (although we don't often take advantage of it) consider what we say for a few seconds before saying it. The immediacy of real-time facial animation seems counter to some of the very reasons we like Second Life.

Phil Deakins wrote: A female librarian should wear a skirt that's well below the knee and preferably tweed, and a blouse that's buttoned either to the top or to one button down from the top. She must never wear high heels. Flat, or nearly flat shoes are a must, of course, and preferably brown or black. I hope that helps, Trinity You forgot the glasses, they must be a bit pointy... and the librarian strap that dangles from them when worn and that they dangle from when not. It's all about the glasses, Phil. Oh, and the eyes! There is the "peer over" which is necessary for people who cough more than once, and the "glare at" for people who talk above a whisper. It's all about the glasses and the eyes. And maybe a pearl necklace if she's a hottie. Yeah, it's all about the glasses, and the eyes, and the pearl necklace. ... goes off to fan herself.

Congratulations on winning your blue forum bowling pin, Charli. You are now officially a forumite! ;-)

Here's Malvina's original, which is in my record collection... And Pete Seeger, also in my collection... I love Regina Spektor's version... The song is so good that Englebert Humperdinck can't ruin it... The Decemberists... Elvis Costello... Adrienne Stiefel... Rise Against (hang on to your desk)... Phil, I think I know the version by Nina and Frederik, but can't find it online. :-(

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Dillon Levenque wrote: Czari Zenovka wrote: Charli Infinity wrote: and there are a lot of tacky magazines. Doesn't mean if they's on a magazine they're not tacky. Tacky magazines feature tacky people and magines that are not tacky freature those who are not tacky. That's image. Second life has pretty tacky image because of this. Did the song "Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?" pop into anyone else's head after reading the above? :matte-motes-wink-tongue: It did not make that connection in mine, BUT for some reason oats got mentioned at a club I was visiting last night and it wasn't long before we had that whole lyric (which I had not heard nor sung in years) in play. Twice in less than 24 hours is quite a coincidence. I like your phonetic spelling, btw. :smileyhappy: Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. And the people in the houses All went to the university, Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same, And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. And they all play on the golf course And drink their martinis dry, And they all have pretty children And the children go to school, And the children go to summer camp And then to the university, Where they are put in boxes And they come out all the same. And the boys go into business And marry and raise a family In boxes made of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. And now I'm thinking of Linden Homes, not Zindra.