Phil Deakins

If you can also remember when gaming traffic was banned, I'd appreciate it I've now got the introduction of the GSA down to late in 2007, but I haven't made any headway with the ban. It was announced in an LL blog, and (I think) it was me who started a thread about it in RA.

If it did, I was never aware of it.

No. It stayed just as it was - 1 minute for 1 traffic point. And I think it's still the same.

They didn't change the way it was measured. They banned the gaming of it.

I want to say how silly it was of LL to ban the influencing of the search results through the gaming of traffic, but I can't because I don't remember when it happened and when LL started to use the GSA. If the GSA came first, then banning the gaming of traffic was a bit silly, because it already had only a small effect on the search results. Does anyone remember which way round it was - ban first and GSA later, or GSA first and ban later?

You woz robbed! lol. Back then, the standard rate was L$2 per 10 minutes, and there were some L$3 per 10 minutes too. I do understand what the OP posted though. SL has changed a huge amount over the years, and not only in the ways that s/he mentioned. My big gripe is moving pretty much all profitable creating out of SL altogether. SL just isn't as attractive as it once was.

Just for clarification, in case anyone misunderstands it... Premium account can own any amount of Mainland. They can own 1024sqm without having to pay monthly tier on it though.

To me, sims do look 256m, or maybe slightly bigger, but definitely not smaller. In my mind, I'm picturing a 200m straight that a running track that I used to train on had, and mentally comparing it with looking along the edge of a sim, and they are mentally very similar.

Stealing from SL? SL doesn't have any money to steal. Perhaps you mean that Linden Lab is stealing from Linden Lab to fund Sansar. Oh wait! Linden Lab already owns the money, so they can't steal it. The best they can do is divert it, but divert it from what? From funding SL? You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall Linden Lab's statement that profits from SL will be ploughed back into SL. The reason I don't recall it is because they never said it. Is that proof enough for you? Or do you prefer Fantasyland? Of course LL is using SL profits to fund Sansar. That goes without saying. But it's not stealing, and it's not contrary to expectations - that businesses use profits to fund expansion, diversions, etc. We don't have any right at all to expect all SL profits to be ploughed back into SL. You are baying at the moon if you think it should be any different.

That's incredibly arrogant (unless it was a joke, but there's no indication of that). Intelligence, knowlegable, and smartness/cleverness and three completely different things. They are not mutually exclusive but they are often thought of as being different words for the same thing. A lot of people mistake knowlegable for intelligence, for instance.

And that's really stupid (unless it was a joke).

Normal sploders are against the rules. The one you mentioned might have something about it that allows it get within the rules, but the standard ones are definitely against the rules. However, from what I've read through the years since that rule came in, LL is very backward at enforcing it.

It's not just money that has no intrinsic value, and land (countries). Laws are a giant confidence trick, as one top politicain said many years ago. And it's perfectly true. The only thing that maintains laws is muscle (guns in your example). As long as those who want to maintain laws (governments) have more muscle than those who don't, laws will remain. But the people can do away with any laws they don't like, and at any time. All it takes is there to be more of them than there are muscles to put them in prisons. Money, countries, laws - they are all giant confidence tricks.

Once in a while I do read quoted bits of posts of those I have chosen to ignore because of the drivel they post, and this is one such time. The quoted statement is that "We already have a situation in SL where a significant percentage of the SL population are [sic] technically, 10-15 percent below the human average in terms of IQ". The rest of us know that approximately half of the human population is below the human average in terms of IQ, which means, of course, that a significant percentage of the RL population is (not 'are') technically below the human average in terms of IQ. Perhaps it requires an average IQ to understand complicated things like this

No. I misunderstood your post. Sorry.

There's a security orb that does it. I was writing a new one recently, just for the pleasure of writing it. It can automatically find all the parcels that the owner owns in a sim, and protect up to 6 parcel shaped layers in each, and also up to 6 boxes in each. The boxes can be as small as a piece of furniture. (I remember one forum user who wanted to protect only his bed). 6 is used for each simply because there are always some other necessary buttons, and a menu can only hold 12 buttons. I kept completing it, but then I kept adding more to it, so it was never finally finished, but I do know that an orb is on sale that protects boxes, or at least one box. I don't know about multiple parcel-shaped layers for skyboxes/sky areas though.

You could never teleport to OpenSim servers. LL and IBM experimented with it, the OpenSim server being IBM's. They succeeded in that, in one or more tests, an IBM employee, who was here working for IBM (her avatar name was Za something) teleported from SL to IBM's OpenSim grid, and back again. After that the idea quickly died. Not because there were problems, but because of taking SL inventory (clothing) into other grids, without the creator's permission, and where it could be stolen. In fact, it would be method of stealing creators' stuff.

I hadn't noticed those because I usually just type them. ETA: I forgot to look but I just did and WOW. There are millions of them.

That reminded me of something from many years ago. I came across someone in SL who genuinely believed that she was an empath. And she wasn't the only one. She said that a friend of hers is a stronger empath than she is. The word 'empath' was created for Start Trek. Before that it simply wasn't a word in any language. But that generated people who deluded themselves into believing that they are empaths. Maybe they still do. They probably never knew that the word was invented for the Star Trek character Counellor Deanna Troy.

Changes are certainly being, or have been, made. For instance, when you highlight part of a post to quote it, the 'quote' pop-up has changed. I posted a couple of days ago that I thought that clicking 'Ignore User' used to work off the bat, but it doesn't any more. You now have to select what you want to ignore. I'm sure it used to automatically ignore posts. I also got the "site is being upgraded" for quite a while either yesterday or the day before. So I think some tweaks and things are being done.

Not me lol. I have mpore desirable (for me) things to spend my time on.

Perhaps the problem with Firestorm is that it does so many extra things. A possibility might be to seperate some stuff and have viewer versions for specific things, such as a builder's viewer. Similar to some programming languages that are not general purpose, but are designed for certain types of programming.

It's easier to become a millionaire in the UK than in the U.S. In the UK, you are officially classed as a millionaire if you earn at least £100k a year.

I don't see that as being a bad thing in this case. From what I've read, some mesh body and body parts creators don't give a hoot about how much lag their products cause, so it seems to me that making them compete with well-made bodies can only be a good thing. And there's no doubt at all that SL would be far better with a massive range of clothing that suits the body that people use - like it use to be. That thinking is based solely on what I've read and not on my experience, of which I have none.

There was always a misconception about what the emerald viewer did to get it banned, and it's repeated in the blog. Even LL got it wrong in a statement about it. It never perpetrated a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. It wasn't capable of that. What it did was, every time the emerald viewer was used to log into SL, it accessed a competitor's site, so that the access was recorded in that server's log. It was like telling the other viewer's owner that emerald is being used a lot. At least that's what I read at the time, and that's not a DoS attack.