Phil Deakins

Pinky or Pinky's

Ah, but my name is Deakins, not Deakin. Maybe it became the family name because generations of the family were deakins Horses are nice

"almost"? The definition of a phrase is decided by the words in the phrase, not technology. So you need to examine the 2 words in 'video game', especially the word 'game'

You see, the problem with that explanation is that it appeared that you quoted the Linden notes to show that other things need fixing that are more important than all those little fixes in the groups system. They appeared to be comparisons. I.e. not those - these. If you'd said that there are more important things in the group box that need fixing, then it would have been clear. But you didn't, so what you went on to say about search wasn't "obviously about search inside the group" - except in your mind as you wrote it, of course. We are not mind-readers here. Sorry, but your post simply wasn't clear, and it could easily have been. And don't forget that Whirly asked you if you meant searching in the group box, when she wrote "Do you mean ... ?". So she didn't understand it perfectly at all. She felt that she needed to ask. It was unclear to everyone. A simple 'Sorry. I meant searching in the group box' was all the reply you need have given, instead of all this arguing that you wrote it so that it was perfectly obvious. It hasn't all been in vain though because it has reminded me never again to even think of lifting a finger or engaging a brain cell to provide any information that might be useful to you, and I'm grateful for that.

Then I don't suggest forgetting it

How would you build a building or staircase? Prims or mesh? If it's prims, I suggest forgetting it.

You can't. Not a normal SL group, that is. There may be other ways that are not a normal part of SL. If there are, no doubt others will post about them.

We were told that because they didn't want to do it, and it was more than a case of just flicking a flag. Now they actually want to do it, so it's not prohibitively difficult any more. The perception of difficulty is a matter of desire.

We can, but it's not the future we'd be whining about

I totally agree. It's no good complaining about a future after it has happened, because it's no longer a future, so there would be nothing to complain about

That's very true. Callum posted the actual reason for not being able to create your own last name.

Don't forget that the reason for the return of last names is not because users want them. It's to make some money from name changes. It's part of the process of balancing out what LL makes money from, and that's good. I mention it because, since it's not something that's being done just for the users' benefit, there is no great incentive to make big changes to the way that last names were done in the past. I imagine that the necessary code for it still exists, if not in the active system, then in old backups, and restoring the last names system to how it was done before will be considerably easier than starting from scratch. That's my thinking, anyway.

Is there any suggestion or information to say that name changes will only be for premium account?

Unintentional post.

Even though it's your original post, I'll correct you as to what it was about. Regardless of what you intended it to be about, this is what it was about as far as readers are concerned:- First the title of the thread. It says, "Fixing Minor Things Instead of the Main Things". That has nothing to do with groups. Then there's the lower section of content, which includes the part that I quoted and replied to - in a helpful way, I might add. This is it. The first short paragraph is a general introduction to what follows. The second one tells us that there are 'things' that need fixing. Neither of those gives any indication that we should be thinking 'group floater'. The third describes one thing that needs fixing - "ejection or ban grom a group". The next four describe another problem (a different one) - "the search box". The first of them indicates the search box. The next two refer simply to search, and we all know what that means. It's used often enough in the forum and we know that it doesn't mean searching within the group floater. The second and third describe what the problem with search is. Only in the the fourth does anything to do with the group floater get mentioned but, by that time, our understanding has been set and, if you're a helpful person, or if you just want to check it because you haven't come across it yourself, you've already gone off to check if the stated problem really does exist. Now, if you'd written the post much more clearly, instead of omitting an important part, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Accuracy is your friend in the forum You are incorrect that I have a grudge against you. I dislike you a lot, and I have very negative opinions of you that you've earned over the years, and still continue to earn, but I don't hold any grudges against you. You're not a significant enough person for grudges. That is shown by the fact that I was particularly helpful, by taking time to log into SL and do several tests of the problem you first described, including logging in a second avatar in for the local chat copy-paste test. And then by posting my findings for you in a very helpful way. If there is any grudge between us, it is within you, presumably because I greatly embarrassed you many years ago, by conclusively proving, in your own blog and in front of your readers, that you were completely wrong in what you claimed when you tried to embarrass me. That's memory - not a grudge

It does work. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with my machine. I wouldn't say that it works if it doesn't. But you should be much more clear as to what you're saying. It seems that you meant searching within the Group floater, but that's not what you wrote. We aren't mind-readers here. We can only go by what is written in a post. And don't even think about justifying your omission by saying that the preceding sentences talk about ejecting people from groups, therefore it's obvious that you meant seaching in the group floater, because the space between the two implies that there's a break and, of course, searching is totally different to ejecting. I admit that the part after the next space talked about a search within the Group floater, but that came afterwards - after a space and after I'd decided to check it for myself. And, of course, as you saw, I quoted the the part that I replied to, so your response should not have been "It doesn't work". It should have been something like, "You missed the next bit where it showed that I meant searching in the Group floater. Sorry for not making it clear". Accuracy in what you write in posts is your friend. Omissions are your enemies.

I've just tested that with the LL viewer, and copy-pasting a name from chat works fine, even when there's a bit extra on the end like the colon. Also copy-pasting from a profile works fine. For that I used the large name next to the image at the top of the profile. In both cases, there was formatting to the names. In chat it was linked and coloured, and in the profile it was large and coloured. I didn't change anything about the formatting. I just copied and pasted, and they both worked fine.

Oh yes you were! But so was I lol.

Surely the biggest bit north of Mexico speaks the Queen's english, as she is still its Queen, isn't she? Note: In the Queen's english, the word 'jollies' is understood in the way that Willow understands it

Timing does matter in humour (funniness), but Ken Dodd's explanation of what 'funny' is is spot on. He said that it's "warped reality". Think about it. The punchline in a joke, or a funny statement, or an event (e.g. like someone accidentally walking into a lamppost), is the reality of the context, but unexpectedly warped in a way that makes you laugh. Think of any joke, or funny statement, and you'll surely agree. Timing can enhance the funniness, but it's not 'funny'. Warped reality is what 'funny' is.

to which you replied... ... and continued with a lot of stuff about Russian words. But I didn't see where Love referred to, or implied, Russia. Where is it? It's actually 'citizen'. You were mistaken. In films, people are referred to as 'citizen' in France, following the French Revolution. I've no idea if the word (french version) was used like that at the time though. So I assume that Love was thinbking France and not Russia.

As far as I know we can. She only mentioned profanities.

It was Dakota who posted it.

It can be

@Zeta Vandyke I'm curious about a few things, Zeta. One is, is 300 the limit for a land's ban list? Another is, why would you expect or need to exceed 300 in a banned list? I'm not suggesting that you didn't ought to exceed 300. I'm just wondering why, that's all. The last is, very roughly, how big a number do you expect to be in the banned list? The reason I ask that is because a mono script can hold less than 600 UUIDs. It can be used as data storage, but it still need a little programming in it, as well as the data, to make use of them, so it could hold significantly less than 600. Multiple data storage scripts can be used, if course, but I'm wondering what your expectation is.