Darien Caldwell
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I don't get it. Why should I care about some number printed on a frame? A prim is still a prim, no matter what arbitrary number which may be associated with it. Try harder.
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These new forums are really terrible. Not only because there is no General forum for threads that don't fit in any of the extremely narrow(minded) catefories provided, but because you can't even start threads in the feedback forum. I mean do you really expect anyone to believe you will read thousands of replies to a single post? of course not. It's become pretty clear LL really does not want to engage their customer base, nor do they want their customers to be able to communicate to each other. And the fonts are way too small. It's really hard on the eyes.
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Improving our Lines of Communication with the Community
Darien Caldwell commented on Amanda Linden's blog entry in Featured News
I'm actually glad to hear that voting is being removed from JIRA. Getting people to vote for something is really no indication of the relative importance or severity of a bug or issue. I don't know that the number of watchers is either. But lacking anything better I guess it will do. -
Maturity Changes in the Marketplace
Darien Caldwell commented on Brooke Linden's blog entry in Commerce
Mickey Vandeverre wrote: Kyrah Abattoir wrote: The rating listing doesn't work properly stop tieing it to keywords LL are you stupid or something? this is an example of one of my products which is force flagged as mature. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/KDC-Classic-Housekeeping-uniform-black/1632631 THAT is my concern on all those products that we have listed with blog links, and links from other sources. When I clicked that, got the warning - adjusted - and nothing - no product - sent to a main page. This will be a dilemma for those who do major promotions, and rely on that product link going directly to product. Yes, it definitely should continue through to the item you wanted to view, once you click the +18 box. Sloppy coding. -
Maturity Changes in the Marketplace
Darien Caldwell commented on Brooke Linden's blog entry in Commerce
This is something LL and Residents should have been working on for months. It shouldn't have been sprung on everyone at the last second like this. That alone stinks of incompetence. The fact that the maturity level setting is completely arbitrary based on a mystery set of keywords is even more silly. This will never work. -
LiveReport wrote: Keli K: It was not meant to be. I was hoping people would see the difference between user names and display names and think it was funny, I also think what type font is displayed makes a very big difference. Both the top and the bottom are “i” “L” and the number one... If you think that is funny, then I guess you think people putting on police uniforms, installing blue lights on their cars, and pulling people over in their cars is funny too. "haha just kidding, I'm not really a police officer!" Guess what, that's something that will get you in serious trouble too. Impersonation of offcials, people that we as a society are supposed to trust, is never funny.
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Viewer 2.5 Beta Now Available
Darien Caldwell commented on Q Linden's blog entry in Tools and Technology
A couple of MySQL commands, a few lines of PHP, probably a little tweak to the CSS, and five minutes in Photoshop to make grayed out buttons and those of us with concerns will be singin' Kumbaya! You have to remember LL is all about Open source and stuff. Let me fix your sentence: "A couple of MySQL commands, a few lines of Perl, probably a little tweak to the CSS, and five minutes in GIMP to make 73% grayscale tinted buttons and those of us with concerns will be singin' some song released under the Creative Commons License!" -
Getting Immersed in Second Life
Darien Caldwell commented on Rodvik Linden's blog entry in Featured News
Good to see you working in-world. Keep at it. It not until about the 6 month mark that you start running into the pitfalls. It's important you experience those too. -
Viewer 2.5 Beta Now Available
Darien Caldwell commented on Q Linden's blog entry in Tools and Technology
Contrary to what those with frictional attitudes would have you believe, Linden Lab is not stupid. Sure, they make mistakes (some of which could be thought of as stupid) - but in the end, they aren't so stupid as to break a major function of the SL experience such as inventory transfer. Actually they are. The day they made it so people could completely *HIDE THEIR PROFILES* from search, Inventory dropping has been broken. I want to give a customer his item, but gee, guess what, he doesn't come up in search, and I have no way to *START AN IM* with him, which is now the *ONLY* way to do it. Even if Profiles allowed dropping inventory, I *CAN'T GET TO HIS PROFILE EITHER*. It's a completely stupid situation. And LL is stupid for creating it. -
Viewer 2.5 Beta Now Available
Darien Caldwell commented on Q Linden's blog entry in Tools and Technology
Why do i have a feeling https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-219 still won't be fixed? Should I even bother trying it? -
[VIDEO] Stop outfit conflicts, attach multiple objects to the same point!
Darien Caldwell commented on Torley Linden's blog entry in Tips and Tricks
Which is just another reason people should be upgrading to Viewer 2. It's been improved a lot, and there's really no good reasons left to not upgrade. -
Sounds like "Avatar Imposters" is kicking in. its a lower resource way to render avatars in large numbers. You can turn Avatar Impostors down in the Graphics preferences. But if you're seeing it in the first place, it's probably because your system's specs are pretty low and/or you're in a very crowded area. Turning it off may give you really bad frame rates.
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IE8 and LL's Viewer 2 work fine with SLURLs. I suspect the problem is with your viewer.
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It's always a shame when someone invested in the Virtual World has to move on. Here's hoping all the best for you down the road.
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Join the Second Life Advertising Beta!
Darien Caldwell commented on Nelson Linden's blog entry in Commerce
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Try Out the New Viewer 2.4 Beta, Now Available
Darien Caldwell commented on Jack.Linden's blog entry in Tools and Technology
If that's what you're doing, it's not a fair comparison. Your 1.23 viewer will already have your settings set properly, and the cache full of your most often-downloaded content. The 2.x viewer will have default settings, and an empty cache. For a fair comparison, you'll need to use it for at least 24 hours, and actually bother to set your settings to match your 1.23 viewer (especially things like bandwidth speed etc). I know many (myself included find 2.x to be faster and more responsive than 1.23. If you're not seeing this, you're doing something wrong, and a disservice to yourself by denying yourself all the benefits 2.x brings. -
Try Out the New Viewer 2.4 Beta, Now Available
Darien Caldwell commented on Jack.Linden's blog entry in Tools and Technology
Now if we could only get https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-219 fixed, we would be making some real progress. -
Join the Second Life Advertising Beta!
Darien Caldwell commented on Nelson Linden's blog entry in Commerce
Well, I can't blame LL for trying to make a buck, but the first thing I thought when seeing this advertising site was, "Wow, it sure is nice, why does the blog and forum still suck so bad?" I think spending time on those instead of making a whole new ad site would have been time better spent. Banners could be sold in the existing marketplace. Nothing else I can add that hasn't already been said. I just want in on this epic thread. -
Doran Carter wrote: I havent used Ebay before Darien, but I know understand how it works. Thanks for helping D No problem. If you're into shopping, probably good to stay away from EBay anyway, it's like putting a kid in a candy store.
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It's running on EBay techonology, so it's exactly like EBay. If you've ever used EBay, you'll be quite familiar.
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Viewer 2.3 Launches with Display Names
Darien Caldwell commented on Jack.Linden's blog entry in Featured News
I have today what is supposed to be the PREMIER gaming machine in a laptop. Well, there's your problem. SL isn't meant to work on laptops. Laptops are great for some things, graphic intensive applications isn't one of them. -
Viewer 2.3 Launches with Display Names
Darien Caldwell commented on Jack.Linden's blog entry in Featured News
What's a Flog ? :-) That's what comes out if you try to use a blog software (this Jive thingy LL is using) as a forum! Forums + Blogs = Flogs I thought it was Flog because they were flogging their news. (Flogging is often used to mean promoting) -
Help Us Test the SL Web Viewer Beta
Darien Caldwell commented on Kim Linden's blog entry in Featured News
Where can we file bug reports? I see no project or existing bugs for this in Jira. The viewer does not accept pasted text, nor does it accept text from the Windows IME. In other words, I can't say ãã¯ãã to our friends in Japan. I noticed the inability to paste, but assumed it was intentional. The ability to log into completely anonymous avatar accounts from any browser would allow for too many creative spamming opportunities if pasting was allowed. Making a potential spammer type in each spam attempt would deter widespread spamming. Typing other languages should be supported though, I agree. -
Help Us Test the SL Web Viewer Beta
Darien Caldwell commented on Kim Linden's blog entry in Featured News
Tried it out on IE 8 under Windows 7, worked like a charm. Even had two other viewers open at the same time. Looks fine as a simple intro viewer, but of course lacks all the toys of the real one. I see big potential with this.