WolfBaginski Bearsfoot
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I yjoink I know what you're referring toL it's not the one I mentioned else-thread.
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"Halting State" by Charles Stross
"A Point of Honor" by Dorothy J. Heydt
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The NCI freebies are a good start, and you'll find people around NCI Kuula who will gladly help. They are also one of the places which run courses on how to do things.
It is a good thing to buy a few Lindens, and get "payment info on file" status. Making that payment is a tricky process for some, I know, but it only needs a few USD. What does video rental or a burger cost? Put in 10 USD and you have enough L$ to put together a good AV.
The default library clothes are good quality. There's no reason you can't mix-and-match to get a different look. The same with the sources of free and cheap clothes: a good pair of jeans can go with so many other items. Good skins aren't so commonplace. Some clothes might look best with particular shape settings, but creating a shape doesn't depend on buying or uploading stuff.
Whatever you do, it helps to have some style in mind.
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It's frustrating.
Standard ban-lines are visible at close range, if you're in the same region. I've also seen them on abandoned water-only land parcels--at least the LDPW does a got job of sorting that out.
Security orbs with a hair-trigger timing are hellish in a vehicle, and I get the impression that Viewer 2 makes the warning less obvious, but that could be down to my general struggle with finding a usable colour scheme.
Another possible aid: make parcel boundaries visible at water level. Though that won't always help for the similar awkwardness with roads, where the road surface level is not simply defined. It might be something a TPV could add.
I think some of the problems can be partly blamed on ancient history and badly-arranged land parcel boundaries. There's that sea-crossing past ANPR, but getting a boat past Purple is very tricky, especially sailing. Worse, there's no route for watercraft out of the Bay City area.
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Very short summary of the info that is out there: there was a change of the TOS on the 25th Feb, which makes RedZone a breach of the TOS, unless some changes are made. Stuff is rattling about in places such as JIRA comments but, partly because of the Dark Time, your best bet is to check outside sources, such as Tateru Nino's blog. What I've seen, which may not be the complete story, suggests that zFire Xue is enthusiastically digging himself a deeper hole.
I think the TOS change does need a proper blog announcement.
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We need to sort out the issues before IPv6 takes over from IPv4. Much of the unbcertainty about IP addresses--the shareing and the re-use--vanishes with IPv6. Where there are privacy laws, the advice to those who collect data is to treat an IP address as though it identifies an individual, because some IP addresses do.
IP addresses are rather like telephone numbers. They need to be passed around so that the internet can work. That's the inescapable technical reality that RedZone exploits. It needs to be controlled by regulation, whether the SL TOS or through statute law. Without it, we get abused by the sort of amoral idiots who think it is a good idea to keep making advertising phone calls from overseas call centres, or who pay the spammers to flood out mailboxes.
Right now, I have no protection if I deal directly with a US company. (And some of the security checks I am protected by in Europe, when making purchases on the internet, I've never seen applied in the USA.) The Lindens charge me VAT, a European tax, but they don't seem to guarantee, yet, the data protection with European laws grant me.
No taxation without data protection!
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Sling Trebuchet wrote:RIght now, that JIRA hasn't broken the record for Votes.The Lindens, a while back, said they had stopped counting votes.
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Lexie Linden wrote:This particular forum was set up with just the 4 threads so we can keep all the feedback for each space in one spot. so, you are correct. No new threads here.
And no threading apparent. These threads are going to be horrible to read: long and no visible structure.
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I've just spend some time looking through the Preferences and other Option buttons.
1:Who's the idiot who chose grey on white as the default for the text: not just text entry but all through the page? What are you guys doing to set your monitor brightness/contract/colour balance? I take the trouble to set mine, since I work some with CGI. I thought the old Mac/PC monitor gamma difference was long finished with. Aren't you even bothering to test?
2: so far, I haven't found any option for a threaded display of messages, as the old forums had. It looks as though you're using the unthreaded approach that was used by the old-style blogs, which made comments on controversial subjects horribly impractical to read. Having the choice is fine, but I haven't found one.
I am not impressed. So far, I wouldn't consider the system, as you have it set up, to be fit for purpose.
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I wonder if Community Feedback would be a better match.
Anyway, they changed the TOS during the Dark Time, and it looks rather as if Redzone is in clear breach of the new terms.
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Have you actually made a payment?
I think that's what triggers the on-file status, as it means that LL can actually go through the payment process which checks the details you gave are valid.
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There's a wearable helicopter available in-world as well as on XStreet.
https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1538706
It's quite easy to fly.
There looks to be some weird stuff out there.
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Go to NCI Kuula and look at the maps there (behind the Freebies display)
It is a bit out of date: some changes around the Blake Sea, and the continent with the Linden Homes, seem to be missing.
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That web-link isn't working any more.
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It's not just a tiny 0.01 cube. It could be 10.0x10.0x0.01, and you'd be unable to either shrink or stretch it.
There are a few tricks you can pull, depending on the prim which is limiting you. If I recall right, Path Cut can let you have a visible 0.01, while the actual prim dimension is 0.02--it's the same little trick as for a hinged door, hiding half the door so that the centre of rotation is at the visible edge. I've seen some older, complicated, models which could now be done as sculpties, and which could have had some of the complexity done with a transparency map.
NCI (in the Kuula region) runs a regular class on jewelery-making, which covers methods of using tiny prims.
This limit is why some old models are ridiculously huge, compared to an avatar, and maybe part of the reason why some people have such tall avatars.
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I agree with this. The NCI classes are a good starting point, and they can help even when you've already done some building, making connections that you maybe haven't noticed. Plus the advantage of a live tutor guiding hands-on building exercises.
Pretty well all you have to do to find NCI is do a Map Search for Kuula. Look on the west side of the read, north of the bridge, and there are usually some folk there.
They also run many events, competitive and social. Since you've been on SL for more than 90 days, you won't qualify as a newcomer. And the occasional Scrabble games are pretty intense. Maybe there are things you can contribute to, as well as what you want to learn. I shall be at the TGIF dance today, so check the Schedule board (1920s/1930s music, if that matters.)
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I've just seen a new post to the Blogs. It's not in the default "Featured Blogs" section on the Dashboard page, and that doesn't have, as it used to, an option to show all blog categories.
As far as I can tell, there's never been any announcement of the TOS change that took place on the 25th February.
As far as I am aware, the Blogs are the only official channel for announcements. Am I mistaken? If so, has there been anything else missed during the changeover in the Blog/Forum system?
Please clarify.