sirhc DeSantis

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You forgot database dev and out of world hosting as well as who is going to pay for all this.

You are absolutely right - delicate kids under 21 must be protected from the horrors of underwear until they have been given the correct tools and training to deal with it....bless 'em

Short answer - No =^^= Would you in RL?

...and those pages you link to are actually a Bitcoin wiki...and even there the time limit is very clear One thing, been scratching my head to think of a (legit) reason why anyone would specifically set up a new account for the sole intention of using it to buy one virtual currency (with a charge to do so) to exchange for another (also with a charge)..why not do it directly?

Have to say my old (well worn) laptop is getting close to 7 now and still manages to run every viewer I have yet to throw at it so yes I tend to think the 'my machine can't run it' thing is a little off. Granted, it can't do much but then again...if I'm on it its because its capable of what I want it for. My main box is hitting 4 and the same - was never anything more than mid range and the cheapest i could get ( yes the video tends to sulk when I really push it but hey keeps my lower paws warm =^^= ). Just for fun I fired up an even older junker someone asked me to take off their hands (was that or landfill) and yes .. a quick clean up and functional. As for viewers I switch between the (usually) two release back V3 and a TPV, again depending on what I am doing. And as ) and if ) theres ever any spare cash I will upgrade it piece by piece. We recently did a makeover on my partners including near everything bar the case and PSU - now runs the latest FS (for example) at ultra all for around a total cost of 250 bucks (approx)

You said "I did hear figures of up to 20% loss of residents due to this.." - where exactly was this? Care to quote the source?

..and for that matter, "..equivalent "games" .." - do enlighten us what they might be Ojectives? Well how about expression, creativity and curiosity - you know, using your brain. Hey you are at Uni, must have one hidden somewhere.. and as for the "aesthetics" - we mostly make them ourselves - out of plywood Mind you, its probably lucky you posted here rather than a certain other popular forum that I won't mention (ahem) as we are rather polite about self proclaimed researchers from unknown possible institutions who want us to do their homework for them.

A whole day old and already jaded Wish I could come to grips with things so very quickly. Take up scripting, just as an example, seen lots of new stuff and feel cared for there:) And thats just one little thing too desantis

Well, a very interesting opinion piece to say the least, and especially the benchmark of the average NA male...that was a joke right? I have no real problem with you wanting to make your little part of SL more 'realistic', more power to your proportionally perfect elbow, its just that in this rather odd and diverse place its not my cup of tea. I rather love the surreal side. Role playing realism fits right up there with all the other RP communities to me - hooray for everyone I have seen this 'Campaign For Real Heights' (with apologies to Mr Pratchett) appearing in a lot of peoples profiles over the last two years, with such endearing bylines of the type summarised as 'I'm normal, why aren't you' and my reaction is - well indifference really. I've seen some lovely builds that are scaled correctly where I stood out like a [insert metaphor here] and, terrible though it may seem, I think thats great. I wouldn't live there but there again I don't have a 'house' here anyway. I do agree though that there should be a finer NoMod option, allowing scaling of linksets in all three dimensions without the risk of breaking a build. 110% behind that one as a lot of those scale problems would vanish. Although like most I don't buy anything thats no Mod unless I just need it once and I'm in a hurry. .. So go for it....but movement? Really Cheerfully 1m75 and 59 kilos in RL, and what ever I feel like when I'm here..

Tried at NCI sandbox, can't even take objects back into Inv.

Excellent:) Now thats got to be one of the best things we've heard from the Lab in decades (ok, its SL everything is bigger!). Seriously, a damn good start, 10/10 Mr CEO. Welcome to SL.

keep your fingers crossed emiley my partner uses a non LL viewer that has just implemented a version of it. looking forward to the day that the decision to expand is Lindened and what happen to all the 'extra' ones a resident has joined.......

I'm interested in your opinion on this. I think mainstream accounts like yours are under-represented in this discussion. How interesting, would love to know what you define as 'mainstream' And wether I would fall into that particular pit. Judging by your general jubilant hope that the introduction of kids into the main grid will cause the banning of all adult content, I am intrigued. As a paying Adult customer, I can accept that sub-adults are being forced on me - I just want to be able to avoid them. Period. And that includes any communication, including, but not restricted to, random IMs and chat, seeing them skyclad on my travels (PG sim not withstanding - still a risk to me) or even in the same group as me. Easy yes? For at least IMs I want a warning and a simple one click ability to mute them, if there is no flag to set this automatically. For groups, a notification of wether a group I am thinking of joining has kiddy members, or if one joins a group I am already a member of. As for the graphics side, just give me the option to auto-mute them. So they are grey blobs - well good, thats fine by me. Even better, give me a big red button that will block any interaction with non Adults and that includes their ability to purchase anything I have on sale. And before you ask, none of my stuff falls under adult - most of it would pass for PG, so what I don't want them to buy them. Full stop. Bring them in if you must, just keep them out of my conciousness.

Shockwave : 'So it's necessary instead, from a legal standpoint, to make the adult grid safe FROM children and the children safe FROM the adult grid. This means seperation.' I agree with you 100%, for the reasons you gave

To Quote : 'I do not expect love, I just expect some rasonable assumptions.' Well, I think a 'rasonable assumption' is that you can pos def prepare for the first part. In buckets full. The first creator that can provide me with a way to auto eject a sub-adult from my areas has a sure fire sale on their hands. And thats on the PG parts too.

Totally agree with Dilbert. I don't want them on our sim. Full stop. And agree with others about interaction : I want a flag to automatically prevent IM between myself and under age accounts (in both directions). Unless I choose to opt-in, at which point I want and expect a rigorous screening process, including full and accurate verifiable RL data (verified by a trained/internationally legal savvy Lab team) and the reasons for wanting the ability.

Well some good stuff in there and some bleh. Display names is going to cause so many problems, so I will avoid anyone deploying it. Soon as someone comes up with a way to deny access to a parcel from anyone using this I will buy it. By the bucketload. I had a quick look at mesh and it looks great, should result in some fun new content and from a lowend user like myself sketchup is pretty straightforward to mess around with, so happy there. Still no news from questions asked about the status of sculpts when mesh rolls out, though (although that little point was raised on the IRC feed during Jack Ls recent appearance on treetv so may not have been raised properly yet) but frankly if there is the faintest whiff that they may no longer be supported then I will simply stop making my own and buying them from others. Not much point really. Increase group maximums if you like, I can't really see much point. I maxed out at 21 in 3+ years of SL and I could shave five right now if I wasn't so lazy. So go ahead, it seems a pretty easy way to make a lot of people happy. From a load point of view I cant see it adding much overhead, at least no more than the idiotic dynamic online listing part. I mean just because I'm in the same group as someone why the hell should I care if they are online or not? Seems pointless. Group chat lag is at worst a pain and at times hilarious and I can see why fixing that is a good thing. Oh BTW can you AR an av for begging in group chat? I know its a bit of a sledge hammer approach but just wondered. UI improvements? Don't make me laugh. I've used them all and the worst is still LL 2.poo. End of story. Give me an option to customise it as a one off chore forever to feature the simplicity of good old 1.23 with the best of the litter from other viewers, or even better a stripped down one where I can ADD what I want rather than delete/work round the extraneous crap then I might just be swayed. And I mean oneoff - theres a TPV I don't bother with at all anymore because its default skin is crud and I do not want to go through resetting it every time there is a new rollout version. Hopefully LL will learn at least that lesson. As for adding bells and whistles to the dashboard thingy, who cares? Just another passing fad. By all means waste resources on it as long as it doesn't hit core, important work. And whoever it was that said that groups should be restricted to estate management etc can go whistle. Thats just silly and I have no intention of shifting my group activities out of world. I must be in the minority too, as I have had little or no TP problems and Inventory seems to be rather well behaved just lately. That might have been the result of finally deciding I didn't really need 2500 objects named 'Object' in there (hey I build and I make lots of sketches hahaha). Real date stamping would be nice but ah well thats my problems, not the Labs. Sim crossing is still a bit hit or miss but certainly has not deteriorated. Maybe its because I do rather like walking when I don't have anything pressing to attend to, and even then I rarely notice it when crossing between two parcels I use next to each other on adjacent sims. Overall I'm pretty pleased with this announcement as it seems to have enough important seitan to balance the usual promised-but-never-quite-there and but-we-didn't-want that features, so (un)steady as she goes And BTW I used to rather enjoy downtime wednesdays as I met some fun people on the blog. Ain't nostalgia grand.