Jennifer Boyle

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It continues to amaze me that people want SL jobs but don't think that it's important to showcase their skills. Go figure.

I really don't understand this. If LL received a DMCA notification from the entity that owned the rights, which is the only one that can legally file one, they should have removed the allegedly infringing content themselves. Then it would have been up to you to file a counter-notification, after which LL would restore it. But you say, "I removed them...," which makes me think that there was something going on besides the DMCA process. I can only speculate that a third party complained, that LL they conveyed the complaint to you, and that you voluntarily removed the content. Is that what happened? Can you post the message you received from LL verbatim?

This is just a related question addressed to everyone. What is actually going on during the inventory loading process, and why does it have to happen after every login? If the server is sending information to the client about the contents of the inventory, why can't the information just be stored locally between sessions? With one exception that I'll address, an account has to be logged for the inventory to change, so, as long as the account is accessed from the same machine, the information can't change without the client knowing about it. It would be easy for the client and server to know if the account had been accessed from a different machine by both storing the time of the last logoff; if the time the server had stored was later than the time the client had, then they would know that the account had been accessed from a different machine and that the locally-stored inventory data might be outdated. The exception to all changes in inventory happening when the account is logged on is when LL deletes items after receiving a DMCA notification (and perhaps for other reasons unknown to me.) It should be easy enough to write code to have the server tell the client the locally-stored data needs updating when that happens. If something other than the server sending data to the client is happening during inventory loading, what is it?

Charolotte Caxton wrote: Rather than adjusting size though, I usually only need to adjust how high or low they are sitting. Real life equivalent would be how different bras give you different shapes. The slider's name is Breast Buoyancy. You are right about the bras. Sorry that i could not think of the euphemistic name for the slider.

Prospero Frobozz wrote: Further experimentation suggests that : it's screwed up when I first run Second Life. If I then enter the graphics preferences window and "Apply" my selections (whether or not avatar cloth is selected), things are OK again. This starts to sound more and more like a bug. Is it a known bug? Have you checked the bug tracker?

Raven1 Short wrote: I agree. The skin and shape makers have to know how terrible the feet are. Obviously they are bad enough that separate feet have been made. So they should figure out how to make a whole body decent. The hands and feet never look good. Yes, one would think that they would jump at the opportunity to have a marketing edge on other designers. Similar to what Xcite! does. If your skin is from certain creators that they work with, there are preset colors they supply for their products that match very well.

Replying to everyone. What puzzles me is that the designers made the specification. They decided which sliders were important and what the numbers would be for each size and are designing clothes to fit avatars with those numbers. I am wearing exactly the shape they said I needed to be for the clothes to fit. The RL equivalent would be having surgery to make one a perfect size 4, if that were even possible, after determining exactly what the measurements for a perfect size 4 were by asking the designer whose clothes you planned to wear. Maybe they left out some sliders that are important. I know from my pre-using-standard-sized-shape days that breast cleavage and sag have a big effect on how the neckline and chest area fit. Perhaps it was a mistake to not include specifications for those, and maybe other, sliders in standard sizes. I also wonder if it would be easier to fit if they made mesh garments with multiple pieces, each available in several sizes, so the user could mix and match.

I initially refused to change my shape to fit mesh clothing. I started making copies that I would alter to make specific can't-live-without garments fit. Then I decided to try standard sizes. I made copies of my shape with the sliders that are specified for standard sizes set to the standard sizes. I compared them to each other and to my regular shape, and it was hard to tell the difference between a standard small shape and my regular shape. I decided to just become a standard size small so I wouldn't have to alter anything to get mesh clothes to fit well. Here's the problem: Some standard size clothes still don't fit. I tried on the demo for a beautiful strapless formal today, and the front stood at least 3 CM away from my shape. The creator is first rate, so I don't think it's anything she did wrong. What is going on? I'm exactly a standard size, but the same size dress fits very poorly.

Since my previous post, I have found at least part of the answer. I discovered Siddean Munro's Slink shoes. It takes a little work, but I can get a perfect color match of the foot to my skin. She has an excellent video in her Web site that gives detailed instructions. ETA: Apologies to Coby. I overlooked her post when I posted this, but I saw it later.

WTF? How could feminist be an insult? It is a f**king compliment! What is this about racist $#!t? IM me any time.l

I would go to chat support and ask for a sim restart.

Pamela Galli wrote: Here is the best analysis I have seen http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2012/07/30/what-makes-us-return-to-second-life/ I commented on Gwyneth's excellent post here http://lagalleriasl.blogspot.com/2012/07/that-spark-we-have.html Pamela, thank you so much for calling my attention to that.

Here's a good site about free stuff in SL. Just buying Lindens, as others have said, is, IMHO, the best way to get money, unless supporting yourself inworld is part of your gameplay, as it was for me my first year. I did cheat and loan some money to my avatar, but she paid it all back, along with an extra three dollars, at the end of the year. Having shown that I could support myself, I started just buying the money I needed. The problem with trying to make money in Second Life is that the hourly rate for people who do not have special skills is very low, so that most people can make more in one hour in RL than they can in many hours in SL. If you can get paid for doing something you enjoy enough that you would do it anyway, that's fine, but it's not worthwhile to spend hours to make the equivalent of one dollar.

Freya Mokusei wrote: Suplimentary to Valerie's answer, even people who do not have accounts (are not/are no longer users) can file DMCA requests, but it must still be the original creator that does it. Actually, the person or entity that can file is whoever owns the rights to the IP or their authorized agent, and that may or may not be the creator.

I had given up on match the color of prim feet to my skin, but I found a pair of mesh shoes that I REALLY wanted. They, unlike the ones I 've seen before, had prim ankles, so they could eliminated the ugly misshapen ankles we have when we wear heels. I got the demo and started working on matching the color, with the help of "color under cursor." The RGB values of the color displayed was about 40% of the values entered. That was OK, since I could fine tune it by comparing the two displayed RGB values and making adjustments. Then I encountered a problem I don't know how to solve. I set the R value for the prim to 255, but the R value for the displayed color is still less than the R value for the skin, so they don't match, but I can't make the R any higher. Does anyone have a suggestion? If I could make the color match they really would look good.

Rhys Goode wrote: So, before I buy a mesh dress, I have a close look at the demo, and see if it will lends itself to a custom alpha layer that does not mask out the crotch or inner thighs. I also have a close look at how well the dress follows my "standard shape" AV when I move, especially dancing. If I can fix the crotch, and patch up the alpha mask so I can dance and stay mostly within the dress, then I can enjoy my mesh and my undies, and not look like a hollow ghost if I happen to kick my leg up while dancing. I too, tend to make my own alpha mask. I think a lot of designers are just lazy, and make their alpha masks a lot more extensive than they need to be. IMHO, alpha masks should not make any part of the avatar transparent that can be seen when the mesh clothing is worn, unless it is essential, and, if it's essential, the designer needs to revisit the clothing design. I have mesh clothing that came with alpha masks that make transparent gaps OUTSIDE the clothing, so that legs end several centimeters below skirts, or chest ends several cm above neckline. Shame on the designers! One of my pet peeves is that designers usually don't include the full perm alpha mask texture to make it easy for me to tweak the mask, and I have to start from scratch making one.

If your only offense is to have it in inventory, the worst that will happen is that one day you will discover that it has been replaced by something named "IP Replacement."

I sure can't do it. That's why I gave up on shoes with prim feet, except to wear with pants that go down beyond wherew the prim feet start. This brings a question to mind, though. Why doesn't someone make prim shoes with legs that go almostto the knee that would work with capris and long skirts?

Anita61 Anatine wrote: I use Firestorm and use the aerea search function to do just that. Usualy the blogger puts the name of the item in the article and it's very wasy to find it that way! Great idea! Thanks.

mtwtfss71 wrote: As a designer, I think this is a wonderful idea. The only problem is that often bloggers don't let us know when something has been blogged. You've given me an idea, though. I already have a website that I list my full catalogue of products on but it currently only points to the product on the marketplace. Would it help this if I pointed to where the product can be found in my mainstore as well and then had a url giver at the landing point in my store that gives customers the option to open my website to view my catalogue? Yes. Anything to make it easy to find. Another thing that could solve the problem is to put a large sign above the product calling attention to its location.

phaedra Exonar wrote: But any of this can only happen if you know your items been reviewed, twice I've had items reviewed but didn't know about it until weeks later, when a friend told me they saw the article online. This looks like a business opportunity for someone with programming skills. She could offer a service to merchants consisting of notifying subscribers if they or their store was mentioned on any Web site on a list she would provide. It should be easy enough to write a program to check the sites for mentions of the names. There is software on the market that will notify one when a Web site changes. So most of the work could be done by a not-very-powerful computer, and the service provider would only need to check for false positives before allowing the computer to notify the subscriber.

and wearing standard sized pants the same sizeI still need an alpha mask to keep parts of my body from showing through the pants? Thanks.

I follow several SL fashion blogs. Often, I see an item on one that I want to buy. I then go to the store it came from to do so. I often have difficulty finding it. Sometimes it's so hard that I just give up, and the merchant loses what would have been a sure sale, just because she didn't make an item that received favorable publicity easy to find. I know, you don't want to put it at the entrance because you want people to pass your other offerings, hoping for some impulse buys. Can't you, at least, put a sign at the entrance with a picture of the item and directions to its location? I'd think that you would want customers to know that something of yours had been favorably reviewed by a well-known and respected blogger anyhow.

I once had a similar problem with the then-current Nvidia production driver that I solved by installing the beta driver.