Phil Deakins

And speaking on photos being removed, yours has disappeared again, Charolotte

What's a "Tgirl"?

If my memory is correct, and it may not be but I do think it is, a change was made some years ago so that a sim's script-running time is limited and, because it's limited, no amount of scripts can lag a sim by themselves. The idea is that, if a sim contains a very large number of scripts that need more time to run each frame than the maximum script time, then all scripts in the sim will be affected, because they are all trying to get a bit of the time allowed but they can't all get any each frame. However, the sim itself should not be lagged by the fact that there is such a large number of running scripts. I've forgotten what the maximum script time is each second but a frame only starts to lag when it takes longer than ~22.4ms. To get an idea of how scripts are doing in a sim, press ctrl-shift-1 to see the STATISTICS panel. The information has changed a little since I used to use it but look at the bottom - below Time (ms). As well as the Total Frame Time for each frame, it shows the amount of time that scripts use for each frame. It also shows the amount of spare time for each frame and, when the spare time is not 0, then the sim is in good shape. Above those, there's an item called Scripts Run. I don't know what it is because it's relatively new, but it may be that it's showing the percentage of the maximum script time that's used in each frame. If that's the case, then anything below 100% means that the scripts in the sim don't exceed the maximum time allowed for them to run and, therefore, scripts on their own aren't lagging the sim. Incidentally, I think that scripts worn in attachments are included in the figures.

I can't claim to know what contest you are all talking about, because I've no idea, but, judging by the posts in this thread, I have to say that, since it's an LL run thing, you can't really expect it to be run sensibly, fairly, or in any way with any consideration to users/customers.

What is an "elite bunny"?

Even though I've only just seen this thread so I didn't reply already, can I be awesome too? Please?

Sassy Romano wrote: Or just guarantee a number of impressions, then you get what you pay for, simple concept really. Ad is then not timeframe bound but service bound. Are you saying that people pay for these listings and they are only displayed randomly, without any agreement or guarantee of a particular number of impressions or click-throughs? A sort of pot luck as to how many impressions they get? If that's so, I'm astonished that people actually pay for that. I know about paying for click-throughs and paying for a specific number of impressions, but I've never heard of a company charging money for pot luck. I would be astonished that a company would even come up with a ludicrous idea like that, but it's LL, so it's not even surprising. It's just another way for LL to put two fingers up to their paying customers - and they probably have a good time laughing at the people who buy into it.

This is a different world to the one where we live in RL. The stars and moon are on crystal (unseeable) spheres with the stars' sphere being inside the moon's sphere. Another difference is that the world is flat and not spherical(ish) like the RL world is. The big question is, what's under the flat world? What's holding it up? The answer, of course, is that the flat world is carried on the backs of 4 giant elephants, which are on the back of a really huge turtle. The turtle is, of course, moving through space, heading for the place where all space turtles go to breed. There are lots of worlds like this one - all heading for the turtles' breeding area.

16 wrote: i sometimes wonder how come 24,000 sims where can get nekkid doesnt seem to be enough. is kinda like ffs ffs? Fast Flying Scooter?

16 wrote: lol it gets worse sometimes with the parent there + was at a M infohub a while ago now and this SL Dad turn up with his SL child he then start to demand that people already there behave themselfs bc was his child present. when he get told to take his child home or at least a G infohub he start to argue. and his SL child start to make bawling gestures and go: daddy daddy make the bad ppl stop anyways after about 20 mins of this somebody get tired of them both and shot them both right off the sim (: LOL. I wonder why they waited as long as 20 minutes lol.

Pussycat Catnap wrote: Warning with no actual ejection also occur at sim boundaries if an orb is set to 'parcel wide' but the border to the sim is closer than 96m from the orb. It will spam people on the other side of the sim border - thinking they're in its parcel, but it will lack land powers over there to eject them with. No idea if where you were had such a border nearby though. But this is a common error. Security devices don't do that if they are scripted to account for it. The one that I made and sell did that at first. It shouldn't have done it at all but it did. I asked about the problem in the scripting forum and was given a workaround for it. So my security device doesn't do it, and none need do it.

There's no need to go inworld. Modding a forum is pretty straight forward and doesn't require any knowledge of SL.

Porky Gorky wrote: I also enjoy watching Prok rip apart the posters in her comments section who disagree with her. It's like an e-blood sport. You might not have enjoyed Prok trying to rip me apart then. I showed her up totally, and not one of her readers (fans?) chimed in on her behalf. Nobody chimed in at all. After blustering away for a while, and being shown to be completely wrong on every point, she finally had to give in and stopped posting comments. Since that happened, she's sometimes mentioned it, in threads we were both in, as though she gave me a real pasting, but exactly the oppositie was true and, in spite of me asking her to post a link to it so that everyone could see for themselves, she's never posted it. I think she's too afraid of it being seen again because she got proverbially hammered

So the crops thing happened in both countires. I'm very surprised that it happened in Canada. I saw a dicumentary about it quite a while ago and I got the impression from that that it was in the U.S. It was probably about the U.S. case. To me, it does seem fair that a company or person can claim some rights if they engineer a new DNA sequence. What's laughably ridiculous is a company that's done that (if they actually did it) suing land owners for having their DNA in crops when it was spread by natural processes. Unfortunately, some officials seem to think it's ok to sue in such circumstances and, instead of laughing the case into oblivion, they let the case continue. All I can say is that it would be laughed out of court almost everywhere in the world. It's like some truck accidentally spilling some super growing agent that they own the rights to in my garden, and, because the substance is such that it can't be recovered, suing me because I have it in my garden and it's benefitting my flowers. The idea of suing me over it is just too laughable. In the farmers' cases it should be the other way round - the company's stuff is changing the farmers' crops and the company should be sued over it. The human DNA thing was the subject of another documentary I saw longer ago. It occured when the human genome hadn't been fully sequenced. An american company was taking patents out on all the parts they found. They found some themselves and they patented the published findings of other labs. A British company found what I believe was the last part and wanted to publish it. They knew that the american company would patent it but, knowing that nobody has a right to such things, they published on principle and, sure enough, the unprincipled american company patented it. They were actually granted patents on human DNA. I thought "only in america".

On a serious note, imo anything we do that makes us feel good/happy/positive etc. makes us a little bit healthier - and vice versa. So using an environment like SL can make us healither or less healthy, depending on our experiences within in. If having a macho avatar makes the person feel good, then s/he will be better for it, healthwise. The same can be said of any avatar - macho or otherwise. So, imo, as far as avatars are concerned, a macho avatar isn't a small key to being healthier. It's how the person feels about his/her avatar that can make a difference. It would probably mostly be positive though. So my answer to the OP's question is no, a macho avatar, in itself, does not make you healthier.

What happened in Canada? My post was about the neighbouring farmer and the gene, and included the issuing of a patent on human DNA. Which happened in Canada?

Melita Magic wrote: Yes, Madelaine, the farmer (whose crops were infected unwillingly by GMO, and harassed by Monsanto) was pursued by lawsuits for six years. (He is a main focus of the documentary. Might want to watch it.) Did he win in the end? Not really, in my opinion. But his courage is amazing. Not everyone has it in them to be Norma Rae or Karen Silkwood, though, and most farmers just sign away their free speech, and that of future generations, to avoid being sued. It isn't about being scared by lack of nature but when someone reshapes and patents FOOD you had better be concerned, before it's too late. All I can do is try to warn people to THINK. I said in my only other post in this thread that these things could only happen in the U.S. While the U.S. is very good in may ways, it is downright stupid in others, such as this. You said in another post that the company had added a fish gene to a plant, and that the company sued the farmer beause he was growing the company's gene. Nobody can own the rights to a gene unless they actually created it. Perhaps the company owns the rights to a particular sequence of genes that it created, which is fair enough. But a company suing a farmer because the company planted its sequence of genes in a field (via a customer), where they were spread to the next field (the farmer's field) by natural means, could only happen in the U.S. In things like that, the U.S. officialdom is sadly lacking in what the rest of the world, and their own people, sees as basic common sense. Much earlier than this, the U.S. patent office issued a patent on human DNA to a company. The company didn't invent the DNA - they didn't even discover it all themselves, but, for some reason only known to the common sense lacking U.S. officialdom, they issued a patent on it. Those things may work in the U.S. for a while, because of idiotic officialdom, but the rest of the world has a much greater awareness of basic right and wrong in such things. It's sad for U.S. people that their officials can get away with such stupidities.

If the owner of the balls had reset the script, then yes, you could have danced your heart out - almost definitely.

BE CAREFUL! Don't you realise that that orangutang is a wizard and could cause all sorts of mayhem for we residents?

If you are not the owner, you can't reset the scripts. I finally understand this. At first I thought it was a poseball by itself. Then, when you said it worked ok for your friend but not for you, I still thought it was a poseball by itself that worked when your friend got on it but not when you got on it. Now you are talking about your friend being on a blue ball and the pink ball not working for you, so it turns out that it's a pair of poseballs, one of which doesn't work. It helps to have the story up front

I've got it! Something big/huge is going to be announced, so what's big/huge? That brown dwarf that's heading our way isn't a brown dwarf at all - it's a brown giant! That's huge so I'll beat him to it... It's a brown giant! There. I've announced something big/huge/bigger than anyone would know.

Qwalyphi Korpov wrote: Ralektra Breda wrote: the forums are back ! Ah, forums. Good. Not what's coming Friday but related. LOL! Your promotion knows no bounds

So I'm not normal, eh? That's an insult isn't it? (This is a reply to a post in Qualyfi's, which Boudicca seems intent on hijacking.)

Qwalyphi Korpov wrote: Thank you for your guess. I'm very likely to make an announcement very soon. Probably Friday. Blown it! You said "I'm" - not they or LL, but "I'm". So my later thought was right. It's an announcement that you will make and those of us who assumed it would be from LL, fooled ourselves. I want the prize NOW! ETA: I just saw that you always said it would be an announcemtn by you. I ain't so smart, am I?

I use Phoenix for certain things when creating stuff. Other than that, I use the 'official' V3 viewer. You can certainly buy animations seperately but you always need a script to 'play' them. A poseball includes a script to play the animation and the position to place avatar. AOs also provide what's needed to play animations so, if you have one of those, and if it's set so that you can modify it, you can buy seperate animations and put them in. But you do need to modify things in the AO for it to work. Also, there's at least one freebie poseball around into which you can place your own animation. I made my own animations for the furniture I make and sell, and I made and sell an AO plus the animations for it, but I'm nowhere near to being an expert, or even experienced, on buying animations and using them. Many people do it so there are many 'experts' around who can help you much better than I can. Hopefully one or more of them will join this thread.