Jennifer Boyle

Peggy Paperdoll wrote: And playing to relatively small portion of the resident population is going to gain enough support to justify all the resources necessary to allow a couple hundred avatars on the same sim? It probably is possible........but for free? Would you be willing to pay for all that added resources (not to mention the additional work load on grid maintenance.....more code, more manpower, etc). In all probability you would not.......you would expect to be free (or, at least, without any additional cost to you). And how many sims should LL allot to this less that overly popular idea? If they do one then they have to do more when people jump up a scream favoritism. It's not practical, it's not a very popular idea, it won't work. How many estate owners have jumped onto this fantastic idea? If it were that popular (or even remotely popular) you'd have dozens of private estates catering to that niche. If there is no return no one is going to do it. But this is a derail. It's not that it can't be done (I'm sure it can be), it's that there's customer base to support it unless LL reduces the mainland to only allow urban invironments......and that would be the end of SL as we all know it (maybe the end of SL period). It is your world.........make it what you can make it for yourself. No one said it would be easy. Peggy, I don't understand your hostility in this thread, which is so out of character. I don't advocate reducing the mainland to only urban environments. I would like to see urban environments, to the extent that they can be reasonably accommodated by existing or easily developed technology, made available to people who are willing to pay enough to defray the costs. How many sims should LL allot? One, at first, to see how it was received by their customers. Later, maybe a lot more and maybe zero, depending on how it worked out. Nobody can really cater to this niche because LL does not make the infrastructure necessary to do so available.

Thank you so much. I have been trying to figure out how to put my camera just in front of my face, as I think it will provide a more immersive experience.

Peggy Paperdoll wrote: ... You could purchase or rent a private sim (or even a mainland sim for that matter) and build it anyway you want (within the legal bounds set forth by the United States laws. You can't build a gambling world or a bigoted world, for instance).... Except that you can't build one that can support enough avatars to even remotely resemble an urban setting, even on an island with a capacity of 100. And if you have 100 avatars on an island performance will be terrible. I guess it's, "Your world, your imagination," unless your imagination includes dense populations and real crowds.

Couldn't a substantial part of it be possible by putting more server power into some sims and calling them urban. I have long thought that one of the things that makes SL much less enjoyable than it could be is its emptiness. It also is not possible to even have a moderate-sized party on the mainland, since you can only have 39 guests, and that's only if you own a whole sim or none of your neighbors are in. Even then, you'll have bad lag. I understand that vertical stratification of various things would be difficult to impossible, but I would not think it would be hard to enable a sim to comfortably accommodate more avatars and prims, which would go a long way toward supporting more realistic urban population densities. I have read that four regular sims run on a server. If they put a single sim on a server, couldn't it have four times as many avatars and prims with the same performance. Obviously, it would cost more, but why couldn't it be available to those who want it? Related but not exactly on topic: Many if not most sims are empty at any given time. Why can't most of their servers' resources be dynamically made available to the ones that are busy to improve overall performance?

First, dual displays means two monitors connected to the same computer. Does the transparency of your whole avatar thing happen with different alpha masks that came with commercial products? I know that if you put a transparent texture on your avatar's alpha layer, you go transparent. I don't know why all of you would become transparent from wearing an alpha mask that is designed to make only part of you transparent.

I agree. the only tight skirts I have that look really good are mesh. There is a lot of info in the wiki and elsewhere on the Werb about mesh. Most of it is far over my head, as I buy it, not make it.

Amethyst Jetaime wrote: ... Also the name may already be trademarked, and if it is you can't legally use it yourself.... ... If you choose to have a user license the full license should be stated in your listing so people know prior to purchase what restrictions your placing on your items. If a name is already registered, you can still register it if your use is not similar to the use for which it is registered. If the license terms are not fully disclosed before the sale, the license will not be binding on the buyer; the license is just a contract between the buyer and seller, and if the buyer pays without having agreed, the seller can't enforce it, i.e., can't change the terms after the sale.

Toysoldier Thor wrote: The decision is personal and I understand the reasons why he wouldnt - I surely didnt want to. I ask this, not confrontationally, but just seeking understanding; why? I could understand that having to have PIOF would be a problem if you couldn't do it, but if you could, why would yoi mind? I especially wonder, since you can register a throwaway CC number (or prepaid debit card number) and have PIOF, and if you use it just once, you can have PIU, after which you can cancel it and have nothing on file without affecting your PIU status.

/me looks disappointed.

If it was necessary for the script to rez multiple prims to dig down to where something was, or to rez them all, that would be ok, as long as it could put them back when i was done. The important thing is to find some way so I don't have to do it manually.

Sure. If in the US, go to uspto.gov. One of the people who answered seemed to confuse copyright and trademark rights. Registering a trademark gives you the exclusive right to use it for the use for which you register it.

I try to store a lot of things in prims to keep the size of my inventory down. One problem with this is that the only way to have a hierarchical structure is to have prims within prims within prims. It is very time-consuming to work with them because the only way to access the contents is to rez the prim and take the contents into inventory and repeat the process until the level where the sought item is reached. Then, after adding or taking out, or, perhaps, just looking to see what's there, the process has to be repeated in reverse. I wonder if a script or scripts could be written to deal with this. Ideally, there would be a script that could display the contents of a prim in a form similar to a Windows directory tree, that could add contents to specified prims (folders) in it, and that could allow the owner to take items into inventory from it. It would be perfect if the user could drag a prim from the contents to inventory, or right click and click on a menu, and bring it into inventory, with the prim turning into a folder, and, also add to any of the prims by dragging from inventory. If a scriptor could make something like this, I think that she could make a lot of money

Re-activating a canceled account If you have cancelled your account, you may be able to restore it, depending on how long ago it was cancelled. There is a US$9.95 reactivation fee for restoring an account. Warning: Even if your account is restored, the associated inventory, land, and Linden dollar balance may be unrecoverable. To start the process: Open a support case. Under What type of problem are you having? choose Account Issue. Choose Reactivate an old account. Enter the required information Click Submit.

There are object finders that will point to an object that you say the name of. Can you have your objects returned?

Hurrah!

Rene Erlanger wrote: It's Mainland The only places Mr Linden offers a double-prim bonus are Bay City, Shermerville and Nautilus sims....everywhere else will be according to those Land/Prim charts you read. Check out Barnaby Point.

Thanks for the info,

I think that both add and wear are available on the menu when you are already wearing one or more of the same clothing item, but only wear is available when you are wearing none. It is part of the properties of an object what default action a click will trigger. What happens depends on what it's set to. If you create a prim and play with the properties you can see for yourself. I cannot ligon now to verify these things, but I'm pretty sure what I said is correct.

As Thinkerer already said, the Outfits feature gives exactly the functionality you want; you just do it a little differently. If you click on the button with the shirt icon, it will open the outfits tab. When you click on the Save As button, it will save a folder with links to everything you are wearing. You can see it on the Outfits tab, and, also, in the My Outfits folder in inventory. I must have a few hundred of these outfits. I love this feature.,

There are clients in the TPV Directory for iPhone and Android devices. Maybe I'm missing something, but it appears to me that either staying logged on or logging on periodically with one of them would solve your problem. You would get your IMs promptly, and there would be no problem with bloclked access, since you would be using your own wireless device. Your need would be met, and we wouldn't have a spammer's paradise. Another solution might be accessing SL via a proxy server, probably with a text-only client like Metabolt. I have not used it in a long time, but it worked well when I used it in the past.

Madeliefste Oh wrote: When I see how often I get messages from people ... who did put me in a product update group without asking, or who got me in on their customerlist just because I happen to walk into their shop... They are violating the TOS, and you should AR them.

Deja Letov wrote: ... However, I've already responded back to LL in the email and voiced my complaints with this and asked them to cancel my counter if they received the fax. I also told them how stupid it was to just give out personal information with no proof that any crime had been commited and that any nut job could get their hands on my information.... It's not LL's fault. They are just doing what the ill-conceived DMCA prescribes. I do have a practical suggestion for you. I don't know, but I think it may be possible to meet the requirements for information in a counter-notification by using the name of a business and a post officer box address, which would be a lot better than using your name and residential or business physical address. I think it would be worth investigating. I could not, in a brief search, find an explicit statement saying that the target of a DMCA notification has a right to receive information about the identity of the filer. However, the target does have an explicit right to sue the filer of a false notification for damages, and it would be impossible to serve someone without identity and contact information.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Happy Rez Day, Big Guy!

Deja Letov wrote: I don't understand why someone doesn't have to prove they ownt he copyright first and then get a court order for the information of the person behind a character. That to me makes much more sense since it would take actually going to court and ensuring the real person is the one doing the filing and not some nut job. Because we have the best Congress money can buy, and that's not what the media industry wanted.