ZenWarrior Fuosing

Sounds like something is getting totally overloaded by SL, if its not connected long enough to be an overheating problem is it possible its your PSU? It depends on the starting temperature. It doesn't take but a couple of minutes for SL to begin heating up a graphics card. An additional two degrees centigrade could be the culprit. And yes, verify you're not pulling too much power from your power supply, and that its performance is nominal. Edit: Read through your system's error and performance logs for any obvious issues. Note: There are (free) applications which will locate the logs and then present their information in a manner which may make more sense.

1. Run a test on your memory (RAM). 2. Check the airflow around your system--and its internal temperatures. It could be overheating. 3. Verify your graphics card isn't becoming a bit tempermental. Run FurMark to test. 4. Manually clear your cache(s). 5. Think back to any changes you may have made to your system around the time the problem started. 6. Check for a BIOS update.

With that resume, he must have cost a mint. That's fine because good talent typically does cost good money. And for once, it appears LL didn't go with the lowest-cost bidder. I just hope he knows what he's getting into with LL and SL. I certainly don't envy him. However, for the sake of those who have not already given up on LL and SL and essentially left them behind (I have.), I hope he performs most superbly. He has the difficult task of succeeding where others have miserably failed.

A SECOND LIFE AND A SECOND CHANCE CANNOT BE ALL ABOUT SEX AND DATING.. CAN IT? Yes, it can be--and typically is. (That you perceive and think otherwise only validates your teenage mentality.) It takes RL to do anything more substantial than what one finds in SL, unless you earn substantial amounts of only real thing to be had in SL--real honest-to-goodness money (a.k.a. cold hard cash). LL, teens on the main grid was truly the final straw for me. (I dislike them so much that I even refuse to teach them. Graduate students only for my courses.) With this possibly most ill-considered of ideas from LL, I now could not care any less if SL should die, revert to random electrons, and be scattered across the galaxy. Let it be nothing more than a few paragraphs in some history book one day. Doubt me? Only one year ago, I paid you (i.e., LL) $150 in tier between mainland and estate. But because of bonehead decisions like this, I now pay you $15. And, I can get it down to $5-$8 USD and still have all I need in SL. (Well, I might still need that customer service I'm supposed to receive as a premium member, but as of late most definitely do not.)

Browser/Rendering Engine Outcomes Opera 10.3 -- Join Now Firefox 3.6.12 -- Explore Now Internet Explorer 8 -- Explore Now Lunascape 6.3.2 (WebKit rendering) -- Crash! (always at same point in introduction video) Lunascape 6.3.2 (Gecko rendering) -- Join Now Lunascape 6.3.2 (Trident rendering) -- Explore Now Google Chrome 9.0.576.0 Beta -- Explore Now

What do I need to install or check.. You might try checking as per my posting.

Those who seem to otherwise qualify based on their hardware and selected browser might check their connection speeds. You can do so at BroadbandReports.com.

Wow! Assuming this is only an early initial effort, I am quite impressed. Although I'll very likely never use Viewer 2, I would not at all mind using this for a quickie inworld visit, or on a PC which doesn't have the dedicated client installed. However, as a black male I once again find LL not recognizing and addressing the diversity of its customers. You've provided approximately 10 "white" male avatars, but only one black male avatar. Ouch! Given that disparity, I could get the feeling I'm not really wanted there. It would be nice not to have the video replay if it's already been viewed and when a second session is started. The application also did not remember the avatar I'd chosen in my initial selection. It seems to assign them at random when starting. And last, it's not very robust to a momentary reduction of bandwidth. All that said, this is very likely one of the best first efforts I've seen emerge from LL in years. My congratulations to the development team. Keep up the good work! Oh, and nice music selections. Question: Are there any specific things for which you wish us to look, or certain things we might attempt doing as testing? (Note: For those who did not qualify, I'm using Firefox 3.6.12, a quad-core desktop, and a higher-end Nvidia graphics card. You'll also need Java, possibly the latest version. Edit: My download speed ranges from 7000 Kb/s to 10,000 Kb/s. Latency is 25-45 ms.)

Unless Torley makes a new video showing these greatly needed and requested features and changes actually work, I'll stick with my initial nightmare experience of using Viewer 2 for a 2-month trial period and not touch it with a ten-foot pole. (Yes, it can be very difficult digging oneself out of a hole you never should have dug for yourself in the first place.) However, if Torley's video shows a viewer which actually "works," I'll reconsider my position. If I see I can have no less screen space than with the "lesser viewers" most people prefer, fewer clicks get things done instead of more clicks, the interface is actually intuitive instead of seemingly confusing by design, and if they've added all the neat and useful features found in Phoenix and some other TPVs, I'll gladly give the "new and improved" Viewer 2 a try. But until then . . . . (Did I say it can be very difficult to extract oneself from a mess which should never have made in the first place? "Burned once, twice shy.")

Thank you for appearing to listen. However, like others have already noted, I have not noticed certain stated improvements. As for XMPP, I recall being one of several who suggested you use it at least 2 years ago! So all I can say there is, "It's about time you caught up to what your customers already knew!" Groups? Although I personally do not need more than 20, and never will, it's nice to see you tentatively responding to a long-standing request, but indeed tentatively by leaving yourself an out. Improvements to Viewer 2? Try as you may, you can't change an Edsel into a Cadillac. (Edit: You also need to accept the cold hard fact that many of us will never ever use Viewer 2, so many of us will never see those so-called improvements.) So to summarize, given many of these improvements are qualified with them possibly being seen at some future date, I'm seeing more smoke and mirrors (i.e., promises) to placate the restless masses than realities. And finally, two words: Sim crossings.

It's nice to see something truly and usefully differentiating those who pay a premium vs. those who have only basic accounts. Thank you, LL. @Adam Spark Premium members are, AGAIN, NOT the only ones making financial commitment to SL. I'm all for premium members being at the TOP of the list. But cutting basic members off of the list is a mistake in my view. I think they just implemented something called an "incentive." It's about time. I see the marketing director may well be worth her weight in salt.

Unfortunately, LL doesn't cater to it's customer base here in SL either. And, all aspects of customer service have apparently vanished. After receiving the above e-mail delivery failure from the e-mail address provided by LL in a missive supposedly providing instructions for AU refunds, I contacted live chat support and waited 30 minutes without anyone coming online. During that same time, I placed a telephone call to billing and after more than 20 minutes of frequently being told by a recording that someone would be getting to me as quickly as possible, the system simply hung up without me ever speaking to a human being. I then submitted a support ticket, but current feedback in the forums have those presently disappearing for weeks before hearing back from anyone at LL. So in the end, I'm posting here hoping the lights are still on in the LL offices--and if so, maybe there's also a warm body who cares about supporting paying customers and correcting what appear to be erroneous instructions possibly sent to no small number of customers.

The e-mail address <aurefunds@lindenlab.com> provided in the e-mail sent today with the subject line, "Your Avatars United Coin Refund," to request an Avatars United coin refund returns: From : Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer-daemon@googlemail.com> Subject : Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Date : Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:40:04 -0400 However, I'd not be requesting a refund via e-mail had I been able to verify my identify just one of the many times I attempted to do so at the Avatars United site over the few months of its operation by LL.

Just give us permanent inworld email adresses and all will be forgiven. Have someone send you an inworld IM which is forwarded to an e-mail address specifically created for your avatar. As long as the incoming e-mail is text-only, you can be reached via e-mail with a reply to the IM's return address.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was the plan all along buy it out just to shut it down. No, it was a very bad decision in the first place by someone no longer at LL. (If only the vast majority of residents' voices crying, "No!," had been heard at that time, quite a lot of money would have been saved.)

This is an excellent strategic call. I commend the decision-makers.

To lessen many of the concerns and implications expressed, consider charging a significant fee (not a small one) for each display name. A cost of 5000L$ per display name would have people seriously consider why they want it, how it will be used, and how many they will have. Too great a cost? Not at all. Think in terms of relative pricing. Residents already give little thought to spending that much for sex beds/HUDS, 2-3 different skins/shapes, vehicles, gadgets, homes, etc. Names are certainly more valuable than any of those items. Also, given you've decided to possibly have our original names "taken" from us, you have at least assigned them a decent worth. And last, this should most definitely be an option available only to premium members. In the past, have we not heard LL ask what more they could do to make premium memberships more enticing? This is one carrot staring you in the face. (Or if not available only to premium members, then charge that higher price to free accounts and a greatly reduced price for premium accounts.) And last, thanks for listening a bit once again.

In addition, we will be phasing out the data feeds at http://secondlife.com/statistics/economy-data.php. We’ll have more updates on this shortly, but because this data currently bears little relationship to the health or strength of the Second Life economy, we feel it’s appropriate to discontinue these feeds. To do this while not at the same time revealing what can be expected as replacement indicators seems to be a major step backwards from maintaining communications with those who pay your bills. Given that, I do hope you take time to explain why you feel each indicator leads to invalid assessments of the economy. Or, could it be that others' (sometimes quite in-depth) interpretations of what certainly seem to be reasonably valid economic indicators are often not entirely in agreement with the official position? Is LL so blind as not to see doing this, and even merely announcing it, without immediately providing information about what other data can be expected to replace it appears as an attempt to hide something? Can management not see this only has those with any measure of common sense doubting the future of SL even more than they do now? Does management feel its customers take those statistics so lightly, and are so clueless about business planning, that they are irrelevant and unused in making plans for future investments? At the very least, tell us now why you feel those indicators paint an inaccurate picture of SL's economic health, and also provide a more concise time frame of when other indicators will be made available. We, your customers, have come to learn that a LL time frame of "shortly" means anything from a couple of months to a year to never.

Unless I'm missing more than the tacit legends explanations on the Issue pages, a clearly displayed "Legends" link to an explanation of what each icon means would be very user-friendly. An explanation of the legends should be as quickly found in the JIRA as it is on any highway road map. Might I recommend such a link be very easily accessed from any page of the JIRA, possibly via one of the drop-down menus at the top, or even better as a small pop-up? Edit #1: Oops, I missed the mouseovers. Maybe greater attention should be called to them being there. Edit #2: Oh, and I very much like the new format. Edit #3: I am consistently getting Javascript errors when attempting to vote on issues, and thus cannot. (For the record, I'm using Opera 10.62 Build 3500.)

Welcome aboard, Kim. I sincerely wish you the very best of luck. However, you may find your toughest sells inside the company.

Faubio Alter said: Bad idea, leave services alone but do delay some if your using Vista or 7. The first thing I do is turn off all useless services. It's only a bad idea if you don't know what you're doing. It's a great idea if you do. (And even BlackViper isn't right about some of them being needed.)

Solution: Hang up.

However, you might wish to keep in mind that just three pieces of seemingly innocuous demographic information are shared by only 13% of the U.S. population: gender, ZIP code, and birth date. To reverse that statement so you might better understand it: "If you live in the United States, there's an 87% chance that you don't share all three of these attributes with any other U.S. resident." (See citation #1 below.) And although 13% may have you feel safely anonymous still being 32.5 million people, it would only take one or two more pieces of also seemingly innocuous information to have someone well-trained in a field like marketing research (e.g., me) to figure out exactly who you are. (See citation #2 below.) So be careful what you reveal and to whom. Many firms are now owned by other firms so privacy statements regarding information given them being shared with seemingly third parties is in fact not being "shared" at all, but instead each piece of that information is owned by a single parent corporation so they are not "sharing" it when it's given to each entity. 1) What Information is "Personally Identifiable?" 2) A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy Edit: As you will see should you follow the citation links, you should be far more concerned about your browser and the information it transmits to web sites you visit on the net while inworld, and especially if you use your avatar's name at them, than someone knowing your SL UUID. Message was edited by: ZenWarrior Fuosing

First, as someone has already suggested, simply do as you would in RL. Do you walk into homes or onto someone's lawn in RL regardless of a "Private" sign being present or not? (Why do adults forget 99% of the same basic courtesies apply in SL as in RL?) Second, what more do you need to see by entering someone's home or property that you cannot see by camming? For indeed, there is no such thing as true privacy in SL. So, cam away and enjoy!!!

Another arbitrary action by LL. I've never received one. But one would begin to make up my inventory they've lost over the past year. (hint, hint)