Rolig Loon

It all depends on how complicated the breedable is. As far as I know, the client was still tinkering with the one I worked on when he left SL several years ago, and I never saw it marketed. Many things that made it difficult then have changed (and some have become more complicated). These days, for example, animation and rideability features would be routine stuff with animesh but still a bit of work. A breedable system off the shelf might be enough to make a basic model, but that's not a market I'm familiar with now.

Right. I should have said that earlier myself. I spent a long time scripting a breedable for a client about 10 years ago, didn't get paid anywhere near as much as I should have charged (yes, I WAY underestimated the challenge when I accepted the job), and would never agree to do it again. Live and learn.

As long as nobody has responded to it yet.

However, here's Monk's quartet playing it (lousy video but good sound): Round Midnight -- Thelonious Monk Quartet - -- Thelonious Monk(p) Charlie Rouse(ts) Larry Gales(b) Ben Riley(ds) Recorded in Norway 1966

double booking

If you want to hire anyone to do something for you, post in the InWorld Employment forum and see what happens. There is no way to predict what the job may cost. In most cases, it's a matter of negotiation between the buyer and the seller, so there a bit of research and trust involved on both sides. Especially if you want something complicated and unique, try to find out what the seller has done before. See if you can look at samples of the work, maybe talk to previous clients. Be prepared to be asked for partial payment up front, as security that you won't be wasting the other person's time and talents on something that you might refuse in the end. And be prepared to give and to ask for details of what's expected, so that you and the seller have a realistic feel for quality and cost.

Cuts corners

Open your dashboard at secondlife.com and look in the sidebar menu for the LindeX section, where you placed your order. You should find the Order History there. Open it and look for your order. Select it, and follow your nose through the pretty easy process to cancel the order.

As far as I know, there's no regular schedule for Destination Guide updates. I suspect that some categories in the DG turn over faster than others, so some parts of it don't change much from one month to the next. It all depends on how many applications they get from people with new sites. The DG has been around for a very long time, though, and I'd be surprised if there were any plans to scrap it.

ground beef

I buy mine at the local coffee shop, where they roast the beans themselves three days of the week. You can smell the roaster a block away. I can't beat that with any store-packaged coffee, and I can't brew a cup at home that tastes as good as theirs. At $2.14 for a 20 oz cup, it's a great way to start the day. I leave a dollar tip and feel I got the best bargain of the day. It comes with a smile too.

Nope. I drink my coffee black. Always have. Sugar and cream and -- heaven forbid -- fruity flavors ruin a good cup of coffee, IMO. I don't have much of a sweet tooth anyway. I will occasionally have a square of dark chocolate but I don't eat other candy (other than a stray licorice jelly bean) and I've never liked sodas. I do enjoy a good tart apple pie, though.

Street smart

Right smart

That's a pretty common term in several other contexts too. It gets a giggle from people who are unfamiliar with glassblowing, for example, and don't know that it refers to the secondary furnace that's used to reheat glass during shaping. Watch episodes of Blown Away on Netflix to see.

Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No.1 in C minor Op.51 / Belcea Quartet

Where did you check the balance? I ask because the only reliable place to see your balance is on your dashboard at secondlife.com. If you buy L$ through the viewer, the balance takes a while to update -- sometimes not until you relog.

You might want to look at the scripting request at https://feedback.secondlife.com/scripting-features/p/llsetlinkattachmentpoint , which comes close to what you're asking for -- although I would personally ask for llSetAttachmentPoint, as one of the commenters has already suggested.. There are quite a few comments on it already, but another few wouldn't hurt. You'll notice that Spidey Linden has already marked it as Tracked, which means that it is under consideration but not yet accepted for action. Moving it to Planned or In Progress is partly a matter of how much traction the idea has with the scripting community.

Sadly, there is no such thing as an effective IP block. These days, most people have routers that assign dynamic IP addresses that change periodically, sometimes every time we log in. Then there are all the people who enter SL through a VPN. I suspect that most people who do that are either seeking a level of privacy and security or are trying to overcome Internet hassles in their home countries. In any case, there are enough ways to get around a block that the idea is really not much of an answer. All you can do is block and report, as you have been doing.

I'm not sure that you or I are in a position to say whether that's true or not. Unlike the legal environment in the US or Canada, where you and I live, there is no public log of all the cases that Governance has looked at. If nothing else, individual privacy makes that problematic (that's why LL stopped publishing a "police blotter" more than a decade ago). And there's certainly no way to get more than an anecdotal feel for the decisions landowners make. Even though there are no public records, however, I'd be very surprised if Governance didn't have a pretty good set of files that guide their sense of how to apply the rules. I am confident that there are precedents and they are applied. You and I just can't flip through the files ourselves.

Yes, and it's not just LL's approach. That's the way the world works. It is virtually impossible to make black and white rules for social situations that do not judge some people unfairly. There are always exceptions and edge cases. That's why we have judicial systems -- to evaluate each situation on its own merit against the sense of the rules. It's also why we frequently have public arguments after the judicial system hands down a verdict (think of practically any decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, for example). Every system is "pretty idiosyncratic" in its own way. It has to be. The TOS and CS are indeed written with a lot of latitude for interpretation. That's partly so that enforcement can often be left to landowners and partly to make it easier to allow discretion in all of the inevitable edge cases. You can certainly argue about how tight to make the rules -- narrowing the gray area and disallowing more exceptions -- and you can argue about who gets to make the decisions (landowners or a cadre of paid Governance employees), but there are pitfalls in each of those choices. And no system will ever foresee all the ways that the rules might be broken or the judges will have to make exceptions. LL faces the challenge of having to make exactly those readjustments, modifying the rules and changing the way that they are enforced. It's not going to be easy or fast and the job will never be finished, and people will never be satisfied that they got it right. The only long-term evidence that will tell us that they are at least on the right track is whether SL is still here ten years from now.

Sorry, no. If you are a Basic member, your Transaction History is available for the last 32 days. If you're Premium, you can see back as far as 90 days. Nobody can see back farther than that. Records of things you bought in Marketplace, though, are preserved forever.

Does PgUp work? That's how I always jump.

And it's fair to guess that any conversations in LL itself are complicated and not likely to yield rapid answers either. It's unrealistic to expect easy, fast answers from them.

Yup, and timers are not evil. You can run them much faster than necessary, of course, and you can go nuts and create race conditions by designing timers without some thought, but generally speaking a timer doesn't do much to harm script behavior or add measurable lag to a region.