Jennifer Boyle

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.

I am always open to making new friends. Please IM me in world.

If you find it please tell me. I would like to buy one, too,

Unchanged for me.

I am tempted to say that I am premium just because I want to be like Irene, but, actually, the real reasons are in my earlier post.

I have long wondered how IP banning could be useful, though circumventing them is not always as easy as it was for you. I used to could change my (dynamic) IP address by changing the MAC address of my router. Now I have a different kind of DSL. It is supposed to have a dynamic IP address, but mine has not changed in over a year during which the modem was disconnected once for over three weeks. What I would think would be a bigger problem than ineffectiveness in keeping the target out is keeping a lot of non-targets out. I have accessed SL from several hospitals, many hotels, and several airports. If I did something to get IP banned while connected from one of those places, the ban would hardly affect me, but it would inconvenience a lot of other people, and maybe lose some customers for LL. It seems to me that it would be better to try to identify the computer. Microsoft is said to be able to tell if a user is trying to install Windows on a computer other than the one it is licensed for; if Microsoft can identify a computer, so can LL. Sure, a griefer can get a new computer, but most of them can't do it too often. They could also try to identify the user. There is a field called behavioral biometrics that is concerned with authentication based on behavior, such as typing pattern and pattern of mouse movement. Each of us has their own way of doing these things that can help identify us. It is not to the point of being able to be sure a user is a particular person or not, but it can compute the probability accurately enough to be a useful component of an authentication system. There is a product on the market that uses a combination of network information, information about the computer, keystroke dynamics, and logon credentials to authenticate people. One would think that LL would use something like that and would add the pattern of inworld behavior to the mix, which would make the combination even more specific.

I just cannot restrain myself from commenting on this. What were they thinking when they did not publicize that rendering of invisiprims was broken and did not publicize the decision not to fix it? This kind of behavior is inexcusable. When I first noticed the problem with my shoes, I thought it was a problem with my viewer, cache, etc. I spent considerable time troubleshooting, posting a question here about it, and reading the jira. If LL had just told me that it was expected that invisiprims would not look right, then I could have saved that time. I imagine that thousands of others wasted similar amounts of time. It could have been avoided if a Linden had been willing to spend a few minutes writing a blog post. It is almost as if they go out of their way to be inconsiderate of customers.

I use the 512 sq m land allowance, but it would not be a reason by itself to be premium. I originally got a premium account in 2008 so that I could have a house on the mainland. I was, and am, a little leary of "owning" parcels on islands, because if the landlord didn't pay LL, I would lose it. Since then I learned that I can rent tier, so I rent all of what I need except for the 512 sq m. I have two main reasons: One is that I have found the chat support to be very valuable. I don't need it often, but when I do it is very helpful. For example, when the sim I live on needs restarting, I can ask, and they will usually do it. The other reason is that when I pay by the year, as I do, it is practically free net of the stipend.

As was already pointed out, an annual premium membership is almost free when the stipend is taken into account. I think access to chat support is invaluable. I rarely need it, but when I do, I REALLY need it. For example, I can get the region where I live restarted when it needs it.

Perhaps I misunderstood what you meant by "outfit." Did you mean the kind of outfit that you can make that creates links to everything you're wearing when you create it in current viewers, so that it's quick and convenient to assemble the same combination again, or combination of multiple clothing items that were sold together?

Amethyst Jetaime wrote: It makes sense. Consider someone totally disabled in RL who is unable to do much of anything in RL. They can't go out, they can't meet with people outside their home, they can't dance, they can't shop they can't play sports or create artistically. They have a difficult time forming intimate relationships with another person because of this. Basically they are stuck in bed or have very limited mobility. There world consists of taking medical treatments and performing basic bodily functions, maybe having to be helped to even do that.. Other than an occasional visitor, a book TV or radio they don't have much to occupy themselves with other than surviving. Now imagine those people coming into SL. Suddenly the world is open to them and they are a whole person. They can do everything in SL they can't in RL and more. They are no different from any other resident and you would never guess they are severely disabled in RL unless they told you. They can have a home of their dreams, swim, sun. walk on the beach, play sports go out on the town The above is not just an theoretical example, it is the reality for a lot of SL residents. If that were you how would you react to SL. Which reality would you prefer, the RL one or one where you are a whole person without limits and maybe even found someone to love who loves you back? Over time which would become your 'reality'? Thank you so much, Amethyst. I could not have put it so eloquently. The avatar has nothing to do with what the RL person is.

I dunno if it can be or not, but I think the answer, in your case, is very easy. I heave HUNDREDS of outfits. Your have TWO. How hard would it be to reconstruct ONE outfit?

Coby Foden wrote: I think that in SL it is very important that the names, by which avatars are known, will be unique. In SL one could change the appearance to a totally different one in a blink of an eye. How could we recognize the person if the name was not unique? In RL the situation is different. Even if the names are not unique we have no difficulty in recognizing one John Smith from another John Smith. Yes, but in RL the stakes are much higher, like who fathers your child, who you are confident is free of STDs, and who you share really significant, not trivial, amounts of money with. Surely, when it gets to things that are significant in SL, you can, at the least, be suspicious that you are dealing with an impersonator.

Lyyli Vaher wrote: ... many people want to be a different person than they are in RL. You bet your sweet @$$ we do!

You are correct: $24.95 per month. There are some ways to save. The easiest is to pay annual, at $72 per year, for the premium membership. You can also make a group with an alt to own the land, which gives you a 10% increase in the amount of land that can be owned, so you can own 10% more for the same price. You can also rent tier for L$0.25 per square meter per week. Using your example, you would need to rent 1372 square meters, which would cost you L$343 per week, or about L$1600 per month, which is equivalent to about $6 per month, a considerable saving. So if you had an annual membership, owned the land through a group, and rented the tier you need, it would cost you about half what it would otherwise.

I have a house that originally had a lot of full bright prims as part of the interior structure. When it was dark, the view from outside showed brightly lit windows and looked very warm and attractive. However it was constant. I wanted more realistic lighting. I wanted the house to be dark inside when it was dark outside except when lights were on. I turned off full bright in every prim I could fine, and now most of the house is dark at night. The first problem I need help with is that there are a couple of areas that are illuminated and I cannot find the source of the light. I have gone so far as to temporarily move prims to make sure they were not hiding other prims. Can anyone suggest anything that would help me find out where the light is coming from. The second problem that I've encountered is that the light fixtures that I have found so far are not very bright, so that it appears to be impossible to light a room really adequately with a realistic number of lights. Can anyone make a suggestion about how to deal with this? Would it be possible to hacve the ceiling become full bright when a light is swithed on? Thanks for any help.

I would delete C:\Users\Username\Appdata\Local\Secondlife and rename or move C:\Users\Username\Appdata\Roaming\Secondlife. The former is the cache, and the latter is the SL data files. It is possible that the problem is in the settings; by doing this, you will cause all settings that are kept on the local machine to revert to the defaults.

Something that really helps me when I make alpha masks is wearing a tattoo layer with the clothing template textures. You could also make a skin with them if you didn't want to make a tattoo layer. Paint.net is a nice image manipulation program that you can download for free from http://www.getpaint.net. It is fairly easy to use and has layers and transparency. You just erase the part of the template that you want to be transparent. I am not very talented, so it usually takes me 20 to 40 attempts to get an alpha mask just right. It is a real money saver to use a viewer that has temporary upload of textures, like Firestorm, though I guess you could also use the beta grid or Opensim.

Ziggy21 Slade wrote: Filing of the DMCA absolutely requires the content to be taken down, thats the purpose of the legislation, if someone acts against me in this way, I have the right to file a counter claim and then the content is replaced, unless or until a legal action is started in support of the original DMCA. You point out that this appears to be a bluff, it may well be, there is certainly something very fishy going on with this whole story, people have posted on blogs with images of the ripped skins compared to the originals, all of these images had to have been ripped, so people speaking if defence of the apparent offended party are themsleves using copy bot techniques to make their case. First, I said nothing to the effect that filing a DMCA notification doesn't require content to be taken down. I said that I thought filing a lawsuit didn't. In fact, my understanding is that the normal course, if the case was taken to a legal conclusion, would be for the DMCA notification to be filed, the content taken down, a counter-notification to be filed, the content to be put back up, the original filer to file suit, the content to remain up (unless taken down voluntarily) until a court made a decision or the parties reached a settlement that included taking it down. Is your understanding different? However, there is no requirement that content be taken down in response to a DMCA notification. I get really tired of people saying there is. If an ISP does take the disputed content down upon receipt of the notification, it has a safe harbor, so that if a court later determines that there was infringement, it is not liable. They are perfectly free to leave it up if they wish.