Jennifer Boyle

Over the past several weeks or few months, it seems to me that the average age of residents that I encounter for the first time has increased dramatically. It used to seem like most of them were several weeks old or less. Now it seems that most are over a year old, and many are a few years old. When I first noticed it, I thought of it as a positive change because my interactions with older residents tend to be more positive. After thinking about it, if there really is a much lower proporftion of younger residents, it must mean that many fewer new people are entering SL, which is probably an ominous development and may portend the demise of SL. What do others think? Is your experience like mine, or is it different? What do you think the future holds for SL? Will it survive? If not, what will fill its niche?

Why is it necessary to remove them? I have shoes with invisiprims that are no mod, and I am adding alpha masks.

My understanding is that your tier level does not automatically decrease when your landholdings do, and you have to reduce it manually. For future reference, you could have avoided the extra tier payment by making a group and buying the land for the group without donating tier because groups can be short tier for a while without anything happening.

I think your concern Is s well-founded. I do not understand why LL does not take seriously the need to make sure the first hour or two of a new resident's life is pleasant and welcoming. THat could be done by having welcome areas that were monitored by Lindens, or by residents who were vetted by Lindens and who had powers to deal with miscreants.

In SL, if I have time to get on, I will parade around my favorite venues in my very sexy Easter Bunny outfit. In RL, we will have family for a feast, and will hide eggs for the children.

Ann, you convinced me. I'm buying a GTX 680 and selling my GTX 580 on ebay.

This is not exactly an answer to your question, but I just recently learned that pose balls are no longer necessary. Now there is at least one technical approach that makes them unnecessary, which you can read about here. I think there are others. I am excited about this and am preparing to completely redecorate my house. This makes me think about how much SL has changed for the better in the five years I have been here. We no longer need unsightly pose balls. It hardly ever crashes now. We have mesh. We have sculpties. We can wear up to five of any garment. We can have multiple things attached to the same point. We have a tattoo layer. We have alpha layers. Prims can be up to 64 m. And there must be a lot more.

Hardly anyone, and no one who was a serious jobseeker, would, in RL, post an advertisement looking for work without any information about her training, education, experience, and skills. Over and over, I see people posting here looking for inworld employment without giving such information. It boggles the mind. If you are serious about finding employment, you need to give potential employers enough information to be able to determine if you might be able to do what they need done.

I am perfectly willing to use a scripted attachment. Let me explain the problem in more detail. I have been experimenting with putting the camera rear view in front of my face. I thought that would provide a more immersive experience, and it does. I am not sure what the camera is anchored to, but it isn't the avatar's head. To avoid having the view obscured by hair, hats, etc. when the head moves forward, the camera has to be forward of the head several cm. When it's that far forward, for reasons that are totally obscure to me, it no longer points level. I am looking for a way to keep it level. Also, it is strange to me that it is easy to control the camera's position, but not its direction. I just want the camera to look forward from, and relative to, my face.

There are debug settings that control the default camera position in each of the three views and that control the field of view. I cannot find any setting for camera direction. Is there one?

You can find information about translation here. It says that neither Bing nor Google translation (within the viewer) are free now. I signed up for Google yesterday, and it works fine with Firestorm for chat. It does not work for IM. I like that it displays both languages in chat, which is a help for learning another language. It costs 20 USD per million characters.

I have to get a partner to get on one. Then I get on the other one and look to see how the position id off. Then I get off and move it a little. I repeat the process until it is as good as I can get it. This is time-consuming and laborious. Are there any shortcuts?

Thanks for the helpful answers, which now seem obvious.

Thanks for the helpful answers.

Many skirts consist of a pants layer and a prim or mesh object. Generally, the pants layer part looks like a pair of shorts. It would be more realistic if the saddle area (the area that would touch the saddle if the wearer were riding a horse) were transparent. It seems to me that it would require little additional work for a creator to make it that way. Is there any reason that they are not made that other than that it is easier not to?

My skin, which I like a lot, has built-in makeup. I have a lot of tattoo layer makeup that I use for variety. Sometimes, I want to wear no makeup. I have looked for a tattoo layer that would have the appearance of no makeup, but have not found one. Does anyone know whrere I can get one?

My experience is that I get the best result making my own alpha layers because they are optimized for my body. I also find that they need little or not tweaking to work with different clothing. That makes sense because my shape always differs from average, or from standard sizes, in the same way.

You could start by telling us what video card you have and what the error message said.

Sailing is real simple (in RL or SL). Point the boat any way except directly into the wind; then pull in the sails till they draw.

Sugar Bumblefoot wrote: It only takes one person to find this out and for the animations to spread across the whole of SL with full permissions. I am not making light of your problems, and I am sorry that you and others are having them. However, I think there is a widespread tendency for merchants to exaggerate the ill effects of their content being available full perm, whether due to accident or theft. The reason is that I think that most people who spend a significant amount on SL merchandise, who, after all, are the only worthwhile customers, are not willing to spend the time it takes to find the unauthorized full perm version. I would much rather spend money buying something from a reputable merchant whose products I know to be dependably high-quality than spend a lot of time sifting through full perm junk hoping to find an occasional good-quality item. I think most of the people who acquire illegitimate full perm content do not spend significant money and would not have ever bought to original item anyhow. So you can be sure that, even if your stuff gets redistributed full perm, it will not "spread across the whole of SL" because it will not spread to me, and, I'm confident, it will not spread to the majority of other consumers who actually spend significant money on merchandise. Just my $0.02.

Thanks.

Szentasha Designs is my favorite, though it might be a little more edgy than you want.

I did not reply to this sooner because I thought it would be better if someone who was more knowledgeable did. Since no one has, I give it a try. I assume that you have deleted your cache. If not, you need to. Unless you have changed the location, it is in C:\Users\Username\Appdata\Local\SecondLife. Also, make sure you video driver is the latest version. I would try three other things. Log on using a different computer. Delete everything in %APPDATA%/SecondLife (usually C:\Users\Username\Appdata\Roaming\SecondLife). If you have not changed the location of your chat logs and you want to keep them, copy them to another folder first. Try a different viewer, such as Firestorm

Phil Deakins wrote: If removing it means that the group land is short of tier for the land it owns, you and/or your partner will need to add some tier. You have plenty of time to do that though, so leaving the group short of tier for a while isn't critical. Can you tell us more precisely how long a group can be short tier without anything bad happening?

If I'm buying from MP, I'd rather receive boxes if the items are all copyable, for the reasons you and others state. If I'm shopping inworld somewhere that has no convenient rez area, I'd rather recieve a folder. What I'd be happiest with is a folder containing all of the items AND a boxed version that I can conveniently use for backup.