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Both are so similarly spec'd, already highly capable processors, with a likely highly capable GPU. SL isn't something that benefits from multi core, the question is about performance in SL... Thus the CPU question is irrelevant.

Well newsflash but texture UUIDs are available to end users no matter what you try to do. It's all largely a waste of time doing what you're trying to do.

One of the nicer things that the UK did for IT equipment was to allow it to be deducted as an expense in the same tax year, a much simpler concept than having to capitalise it as it was previously. Even if it's only part used for business though, I would expect that a percentage could be accounted for deductions. As suggested though, talk to a US tax consultant.

Conifer Dada wrote: I think landowners should be given the option of limiting the draw weight of individual avatars accessing their land. That would make a lot of clubs less laggy. That's pretty much a viewer function now as far as allowing individuals to choose what avatar complexity should be rendered.

Darn it! I was just about to sell some sky hooks.

Well there's this very recent thread for starters https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Merchants/Vicious-Abuse-Reports-to-Flag-Items-on-MP/m-p/2987888#U2987888 which is in the Merchants forum instead of the General Discussion forum. Also, just to point out that "Adviser" is merely a token title based upon post count, nothing more. Dres, nor any one else is here to "do a job of advising".

Well, simply stating the amount of memory is irrelevant somewhat beyond a point with SL. The same GPU with 4GB is going to be pretty much the same for example. Anyway, the answer is not the amount of memory yet again, but how well that GPU is supported under SL's choice of OpenGL interface. Either way, your CPU question is now irrelevant.

Qie Niangao wrote: Heh. My first reaction was: "But that's not the question!" Well, it's not my fault that the wrong question was asked!

Better graphics card

just remember that "effortlessly" in basic graphics mode is a world apart from "effortlessly" in ultra graphics mode.

Let me translate as best I can:- "Michelle wrote:Michelle in Aviation . Penalty on SLHA 13 weeks ? And a meg that not reply my requist to let me fly over that aria . Ps. I lost my friends over there i was isolated till now so i can t use the aviation like it have to be . and The best builders put there hands of me becourse the not want be invold in this pending case . Time to release your citizen." "Penalty on SLHA is 13 weeks? (aghast but not sure what SLHA is?) And a meg (person? manager?) that may not reply to my request to let me fly over that area. PS. I lost my friends over there and I was isolated until now, so I can't use my aircraft like it is supposed to be used. The best builders put their hands on me (up and ignored me?) because they do not want to be involved in this pending case." (irrelevant post to the thread other than a search on "abuse and harassment" seemed to pick the thread up and they necro'd it anyway).

I know Dakota and i'm sure you may remember the actual item i'm referring to where it has in the actual listing, text pasted from our conversation and apology yet the LL representative clearly cannot have read that nor understood the rules. Anyway, that's more historic, I wasn't intending to discuss that particular item but rather how the flagging mechansim continues to run. The problem there is that there's no way to help the employee understand the cause for complaint, per the example I gave. Anyway, on flagging, is it a binary flag indicating flagged or not or is there a count of how many times it is flagged? As I described, there's a lot of value in having it as a numeric count and a daily top down sort and hit those first. If 100 people in 1 day are flagging an item (for example), it's a big hint that it should be attended to. Keywords: "pants, dress, black, white, not maitreya, not tmp, not belleza, not like coldlogic, not at all blueberry, unlike slink, avatar" Get my drift?! Something like that would factor in just about every search and i'm sure people would be eager to spank it. Further, since keyword spamming is important to address, wouldn't it be better if the listing showed the keywords visibly to everyone and made it obvious what some merchants were doing to skew results? Why hide them and force people to use 3rd party scripts or view page source? No sense really. It's really important as there's work going on to address the very fluffy "relevance" while not helping anyone by hiding unscrupulous merchant behaviour that skews algorithms. As I said on that other thread, relevance would be more relevant, if you start off without trying to deal with irrelevant too. Analogy time, it would be like trying to bake a cake with eggs, sugar and butter and 100 other ingredients and wondering why the cake kept coming out odd but only trying to adjust the quantities of egg, sugar and butter without ever beginning with the removal of all the wrong stuff. THIS, is LL's search result.

Prokofy Neva wrote: Dakota, Can you answer whether you or other Lindens are the ones that scour the MP for violations and flag them or do you only respond to flags from residents? The goal of the MP should be to sell products, not stop sales. Also Dakota and i'll take a non answer as an inferred one here but whether the operatives actually look at the issue or just click and nuke flagged items without investigation? I ask because I don't see that a valid investigation can always be done. Say an item has mixed permissions and one part of it is no mod, a prim part, lets not get into arguing about whether customers should be asking for mod scripts in a modify item. Old listings may have mod as the permission and lets say that the whole item is generally mod but there's one part that isn't and that's the one I want to mod. As far as i'm concerned, the item is not as described and being an old listing, would pre-date the addition of "see item details" which was added later. It's not reasonable to expect merchants to go back over all listings. Right so now I have an item that was apparently modify but I can't change it, it's not as advertised. I can only choose from a restricted list and can't state what the issue is that needs to be investigated. To a casual inspection, the item might appear ok but it's not. You might say "take it up with the merchant", merchant says "ha ha, you gotta be kidding, stuff you!" hence the flag for "not as advertised: permissions". So how much investigation is done? I offer answer of "none" as I know that some of my listings, one in particular gets flagged when it's wholly compliant and gets de-listed yet if the staff had even read the listing, they'd see the LL apology for prior de-listing incorrectly. Another question, I presume there's only one binary state flag? It's a shame that it's not an integer if that's the case. It would be a simpler task for LL to then do a daily sort "most flagged" to "least flagged" and investigate those. It's really frustrating to see something that's already flagged and see it there for weeks. If it's getting lots of hits on that flag, then it should be prioritised for removal instead of being a popular product in search results but inappropriate for keyword spam but lost in the sea of all flagged listings. The value of the flagging mechanism would be higher if something that was flagged 100 times in 2 days were removed than one item flagged once a year. Does it have a count on that flag or is it just a binary state?

Julius1980 wrote: well what do ladies like on a male avatar as there friends? A good head on their shoulders with wit and intelligence for starters.

Parhelion Palou wrote: They're planning on selling/renting their infrastructure to people & companies who will create their own virtual worlds (which LL is calling experiences). Yes and this is why it's likely to fail not be the outstanding success that someone somewhere thinks it will be. Other platforms already exist so instead of being a leader, I feel they'll enter as an "also ran" hoping Oculus Rift support will save the day, oh but wait, others support that too. One of the most difficult aspects of building a business is generating a user base to consume product. It continues to fascinate that having established a user base, LL continues to treat that userbase as an inconvenience and keeps heading off in different directions.

chloecampbell12 wrote: Hey guys Sorry for putting up another post about this But i am just wondeirng will 2gb of ram Run okay I am postive i have enough memory 1 terabyte I am just soooooooooo worried it won't work and this years christmas will be a huge blow! 2GB RAM? That immediately suggests a low spec PC. Back in 2008 I ran SL on a 1GB laptop and the problem is that the viewer can happily consume over a gigabyte, nearer 1.5. After being logged in for a while, memory fills and then the PC starts swapping memory to disk and this is when things will get very slow. I've run SL on a 1GB Windows tablet... it worked is an accurate description but I didn't stay logged in for very long but the main issue you may have is a low spec graphics chip for that PC. Without details, can't say but that will likely hit you more than the memory - initially. There is a setting in the viewer called MaxHeap which is supposed to limit the memory that the viewer consumes, sometimes it works but overall, don't set your expectations high at all. As Darrius suggests, just install the viewer and find out but if this has been purchased as a present, there may be disappointment.

Other than being just a count of furry vs human, is there a different aspect of this which is sought as a topic for discussion? (You know that you can change it every few seconds to something else anyway?) Sometimes i'm just a cardboard box, or an ant or a stick person. Furry vs human has no real meaning.

Vivienne Schell wrote: - Nipples (Mainstream USA hates nipples) Fixed that for you.

polysail wrote: As a shopper I just want to search for mesh shoes and be done with it. Not wonder if the search is supposed to be: "mesh shoes" "mesh" AND "shoes" "mesh" AND "shoes" NOT DEMO "mesh" AND shoes* NOT DEMO Well this one in particular could have been solved a LONG LONG TIME AGO because a mesh item has a mesh flag set on upload and the user interface should have a checkbox for "Mesh", just as it has them for the type of permission. A user should NOT have to even put the word mesh anywhere in the search description, we don't have to put "shoes AND copy AND modify" do we?! Why search has never thus far taken advantage of a richly populated field that is so commonly asked for is beyond my meagre comprehension. (silent expletives not aimed at you polysail)

What88 Zond wrote: Is there any catagory for, "Hey I found a freebie full perm and am selling it on marketplace as my own."? It's just so frustrating to see someone take avantage of something that was free and ment to be funny so they can make a buck. :catsad: Tough. If you give something away free and others choose to sell it, how is that different from every other similar scenario SL and RL? Without an enforceable licence or other binding contract, that's just bad planning (or lack of) on your part.

Rez it on the ground first, then mod it and take back to inventory. If that doesn't help, is it scripted? It's quite feasible that a script would initialise on rez that sets the prim parameters.

Well since this has been resurrected, lets not forget that in the free category is Blender which since the original question, now has cloth stitching so is a valid option.

I can only speculate in my own mind as to what to expect. Why even incorporate blender inworld though? It doesn't make much sense. Even though something like blender is open source, to integrate something which continues to evolve and get updates so frequently, would constantly be out of step with LL's take on it. Who would look after bugs? which bugs? core bugs or integration bugs? But the fundamental question is would it make it easier to use? Nope not at all so where's the beneift? I don't see any. Inworld tools for something like 3D content creation really doesn't fit because by the time you've created a full fledged 3D modelling tool, the platform/viewer side just becomes a feature of the 3D modelling tool. I'm not sure how you see things so polarized as "silver spoon" or plebs though, I'm not even understanding where that's coming from. SL has no cost barrier to entry, free to play and all that... What I am confident about expecting though is that anyone expecting just a bigger, prettier, cheaper upgrade from SL to SL2 is going to be very sorely disappointed.

amamakah wrote: I finally found the forums hoping for help in naviagting this complicated place. It is kind of disconcerting to find this thread where I seem to be a immediately disliked person because I am new and a bit clueless. This place is difficult. I am not finding decent looking clothing or body in the beginners zone. Dealing with boxes is kind of crazy making. Etc, etc. Am I judged for my ignorance? Seems so. Idk if this is a fun place to be at all. Major Noob number 165,794 Hiya, welcome to SL and the forums! I've been here a while and I don't think that was the intention of the thread at all, we've all been where you are so ask away. Note also that there's an Answers section up there on the menu so you may wish to seek help there. It's my belief that the intent of the thread was just to see what characterised a newbie in different people's minds, was it appearance, animations, behaviour or what? For different people it is different things however a newbie is someone new, distinct from a noob who is someone who acts as a newbie but never "gets it". SL does have a steep learning curve at first and don't worry, we've all worn boxes on our hands, knocked clothing off while trying something else etc. so as long as you're new but making mistakes, we smile and just think "been there done that!". Some of us still do it too. PS, you'll need to shop in the department store for a thick skin for some of the forum threads, my advice, just don't take anything too seriously. This place is full of opinionated numpties, self included

EBM5555 wrote: What purpose did your personal attack on my thinking and a blanket statement about politicians serve in this debate? Did I miss some nuance in your statement as you seemed to have missed in mine? Clearly and yes, all politicians are unneccessary and a waste of space. Figure it out!