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Knowl Paine

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  1. Welcome,

    There are land settings that can be adjusted which allow Residents to share abilities on a plot, or lot, of land.

    If you join as premium, you could get a Linden Home, and share that.

    Security is very good, but this the internet. Most people expose themselves, and many people have nothing to expose, lol. I mean that in the sense that they already have a Public presence at other online sites like FB, You Tube, or Twitter, and they don't mind sharing info. 

    You have to decide how much information you wish to share.

    Never share your password, or email linked to your Account.

    Read the terms of service.

    One hundred percent privacy, in a virtual world, interestingly enough, cost money, just like outside of SL. 100% is your own private Region, and that cost a lot of money.

    You can rent 98-99% privacy, from one of the many Private Regions owners.

    The Mainlands, and the Linden Homes Regions, are about 50-50 on privacy, because it's public. sorta. The Linden Homes where created with the idea that it's your house, it's not public.


    Explore the Inworld map, or the Map link at the top of this page, to get an overview of the Grid. Watch some tutorial videos on You Tube, for fast paced learning. Have fun, don't take things too seriously.

     

  2. I would say No, you should not seek a remedy through the Courts.

    You should consider continuing to report abuse if you witness it, or experience it in SL. 

    Sometimes it just takes time, for LL to track down an account.

    Courting, is a two way street. Their lawyer can delay, just like yours. You get their info, they get yours.

    A quality abuse report, includes only the facts, avoids any personal attacks, or interpretations of policy. Who, what, when, and where. Why, is a much longer story, of why some people are crazy. We're not going there.

    Each message, is another violation, they will eventually burn their own bridge.

    I'm sorry that your peace is being disturbed. There is relative safety in numbers. Seek out friends, or activities with lots of Residents. They may also report abuse, if they experience it.

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  3. Did you get, or discover an email from LL after your last post? You stated that you did not receive an email from LL.

    My comment may have been more of a political statement, rather than a logical approach to your original inquiry. Sorry about that.

    As you have stated in later post in this thread, you should consider seeking a legal, or tax professional, for advice.

     

     

  4. You are a citizen of a Sovereign Nation. You are not obliged to respond to any communications from the IRS.

    Much of the information in the link, defines obligations set upon LL.

    It basically says that if you don't want to jump through the systems fictitious contractual hoops, there's a flat fee of 28% on amounts above stated limit. (If you're making that much, you might get rich, so we need to tax you)

     

     

       

  5. I don't think so.

    If the landing point is blocked by the land owner, that may prevent people from teleporting in, or if the land is set to group only, then only Residents wearing the group tag would be able to enter.

    A person could ask to be banned.

    If you feel that you're spending too much time in a Region, or in SL, the best solution is to take break. SL is not going anywhere, it will be here when you get back.

  6. SL has operated at a profit for many years, all the bills paid, plus extra. Nobody is pulling money out of their pockets to "help" us. If they have, they have been repaid several fold.

    If I sound snippy, I don't mean to be. "Your World, your Imagination", is an accurate statement from LL.

    I have been an avid map viewer for a long time. I support adding water Regions, but advocate strategic placement, to fill critical gaps across the grid.

    On the suggestion, or question of connecting all the continents, I would guess that the LL might need to add 400 Regions. It's just a guess. I'm thinking 2 regions wide, a road on one region and water on the other, 3 regions wide in some places.

    I haven't put much thought into SL construction projects. I've visited a number of the works created by the LDPW. I know that there are many things which need to be fixed across the Inworld grid, and that some of those projects are complicated by heritage builds, and private land holdings.

    I think Residents are due a LL renovation project, and I'm sure the Moles wouldn't mind; if we still have moles. Many projects have been completed, and almost every project has added value to SL, the surrounding Regions, and Resident experience.

    I still think it would be a massive project. idk :smileyhappy:

     

  7. They're too far apart. It's too many Regions to have to add. It would take months to implement. The Pro is all for Residents. The Con, is that Residents will pay for it.

    If we had a say, I would say no.

    There are better things which could be done with the time and resources.

     

  8. I don't know the entire reason why.

    Reading the changes, helped to remind me that SL is a game for residents, and a business for the lab.

    I was looking for an excuse to take things less seriously. The timing was pretty good.

    I could continue to ridicule ridiculous policy, but doing so, is prohibited under my personal sleepiness policy.  


  9.  It is my opinion, that it is best to learn everything you can, using the tools you already have. If you can create something beautiful, using rudimentary tools, you will have the foundation to master the advanced tools.

    Creation is the manifestation of an idea. The best solutions, arrive on a "need to know" basis. You can have too many options.

    If you see a Builder standing in a sandbox, staring down at a single lone cube, for about an hour, that is person with too many options. When you can build anything, you start to question what is worth building.

    "Well, how many prims is it? Maybe I should make it offline, that means I have to log out. Then I get lost in a 3rd party development software program. I'm have so much fun building there, I forget about SL".

    I have the most fun, and build the best things, when I don't worry about the prims, or what other people will think.        

  10. We are encouraged to report Abuse in SL if we witness it, that is about the only recourse you have with LL.

    You have options outside of SL, but pursuing those processes, can be costly, and is often not worth the time.

    There are a lot of honorable land dealers in SL. I usually look for dealers with an established presence Inworld, and outside of SL. The older the Resident is, the better.


    I'm sorry to hear that you lost time, and money. From an overview, it appears that you are not the only disappointed person, involved. 

     

     

     

     

     

  11. It is my opinion, that exchanging money in SL, is too easy. 

     

    This discussion continues to return, because it has not been resolved.

     

    If I was LL, I would build a registry of "known" accounts. Then pursue the known unkowns.

     


  12. Cerise Sorbet wrote:

    They refactored the libraries that do things like fetch textures and inventories so that they don't choke the viewer like they did before. With the viewer unchoked, it would be free to ramp up the rendering work and use more CPU. An SL viewer will try to use as much CPU as it can get to keep frame rates going, so it's possible that a bottleneck was simply opened. There was nothing in that change that could cause hardware failures, if your had a hardware failure then it was on its way out already.

    Some of the changes in that library aren't actually used yet, they won't kick in until some server changes, not yet released, activate them.

     

     

     

     

    It is an old system, yes, thousands of hours on the processors.

     

  13. Threaded Optimization is one of the first things I turned off.

    I've searched every "SL high CPU usage" I could find on the web. Many of the CPU usage problems relate to a Viewer being idle or minimized with high CPU usage. I have high CPU usage during normal use.

    They're just cubes, it shouldn't be using 80% of my CPU to rez 1 cube in an empty sandbox.

     

    I'm just a little upset.

    I will add the second processor, update and reconfigure the pc, and if I still have a problem, I will start jumping through the Support hoops.

     

    Thank you for all the replies.

     

     

     

  14. Quote from SL release notes:


    "A new scheme for performing HTTP operations is introduced with this release. It is intended to reduce crashes and stalls while performing HTTP operations and generally enable performance and reliability improvements in the future. In this release, it is being used by the viewer's texture retrieval code. Our expectation is that it will provide consistent and predictable downloading of textures. As well as the usual problem reporting, we're also interested in confirmation of improvements where this release improves your experience".

    http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/3.4.3

     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

    Can anyone tell me what the "new scheme" is?

    I have been experiencing excessively high CPU usage. At times, the CPU usage spikes to 100%. The average is somewhere around 60%. Prior to the Release, my CPU usage was about 25%.

    I was thinking about adding a second processor, but I'm concerned that this "new scheme" is what (may have) caused a hardware failure in my pc.

    I've been visiting another site, to pass the time. I was hoping that eventually, new SL releases would address this high CPU issue. I was having the same high CPU usage at that other site, and disabling my Firewall eliminated the problem.

    I was hoping that the firewall was also the problem in SL, but after just visiting SL, the high CPU issue remains.

    I can add a second processor, and reconfigure the PC, it would be helpful to know what this "new scheme" is.

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