Wynochee LeShelle

I think the secret behind the mystery of those vehicles is best explained here: http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2011/02/software-hubris-or-the-invasion-of-annmarie-otooles-vehicles-everywhere.html

On board.

The new communication strategy shouldn't become fashion in the business world. I imagine a luxury restaurant which welcomes its customers at the entrance door with the words: "Go to the next fast food restaurant! There you can find out more about us! Ah wait, before you go: and tell them, you like us!"

I have only two hands. So, I am unable to create a whole forest full of facepalms. I will plant some more palm trees inworld. Because the grid is my avatars world, not the "web". (And if I want something about my avatar on a website, I can do it by myself on a lazy day, and: better!)

Facebook = KGB on a voluntary basis. Major league data mining. And: Facebook has guidelines and ToS too. It is not allowed there to use avatars and fantasy names. FB is just not our turf. In this way it is *not* the "best place to find out about cool things going on in Second Life, share ideas, and get the inside scoop on inworld events, contests, machinima releases, PR activities, fun discussions, and more."

Hi, ok, this is a good Robinson-job since you've found the island.. The next challenge is, to build 1 - 2 windows, a working door, a fireplace/chimney and a couch. ETA: if you look into your friendslist and find the name "Torley" - he is nice and kind of our mascot - don't give him building rights for your land/objects, especially if you don't want that someday all your buildings are redyed in shiny pink and glowing green.

297.000.000 Smith, 10.400.000 Maier, 21.500.000 Dupont, 99.900.000 Gonzalez, 176.000.000 Rossi are very happy now that Linden Lab doesn't call itself Smith Lab, or Maier Lab, Dupont Lab, Gonzalez Lab, Rossi Lab. But tens of thousands of German, Austrian, Swiss, Belgium, Netherland, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein people with the second name Linden are not amused that they can't chose their own name as display name. Linden Lab should be renamed as *Zoodlewurdle Lab*. This would help much to prevent such issues.

Yeah! A new round rollercoaster without seat-belts. We quickly received a new complimentary ticket. The thrill is back! (In case anyone missed it)

I still use version 1.23.5 - it is fast, easy and fun, because there is no sidebar in my view and I don't feel like a dray-horse with blinds while walking through the world - and I can reach everyhting what I need with one click. Less is more. An evergreen design rule.

Hm. My and my partners cash cows suffer from costiveness. This could be a psychosomatic reaction by reading conditions, procedure-steps and prices, said our veterinarian, Dr. Mooh. This is a common phenomen here in the austrian alps, that cash cows are reacting kind of allergic on such offers.

If I sit with Sherlock and Dr. Watson in an old english smokers club, discussing the WikiLeaks news and Cablegate, or if I discuss the spring collection of new clothes with my biz-partner, I have no ambition that teens ears and eyes growing into our property. Not to mention that we have - so far and still - the freedom and spontaneity to change from one second to another into a more romantic conversation and so on... And since people like Peter Greenaway, Peter Weibel or Peter Sloterdijk are from time to time on the grid (no joke! They are (+ 18+ students) on the ZKM sims - a University from Germany) and I have - for instance - the idea to talk with Mr. Weibel *on my M-rated sim* about his times in Vienna when he did performances with the provocating female austrian artist Valie Export or I talk with him about the oevre of the french painter Tomy Ungerer or about Dash Snow, then I don't want teens around camming, because this is mature and maybe adult material but: ART! Especially since we are able to rez medias on a prim, websites and videos for example. Or would you like to see teens camming over if two adults from the art scene analysing Courbet's The Origin Of The World painting? Whatever - an adult life is not only about porn Nany, but it is at the same time not necessarily something in which we would like to be disturbed or misunderstood or spyed by kids. Even not if we're watching the soccer match between Bavaria Munich and FC Cologne, because maybe we put on another stream after that, let's say: an art-film from the official Austrian Television or a leased video called "Hundstage" and this is - again - nothing for kids. So far we adults are free to do so on our land. If kids are on the neighbor sim, we can't.

I really would like to see SL keep its freedoms, what kind of second life are we goin to have when it becomes so comingeled with our real lives? Straightjacket Life. Censored to death. Major league boredom. Like attending the Woodstock Festival in business suits. An atmosphere like in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral on sunday mornings. Visiting southern French's Cap d' Agde in June, dressed in Trenchcoats. Going through the Louvre, blindfolded. Dancing in Munich's noble Disco P1 dressed in Winterclothes and Moonboots. Listening to the Rolling Stones with *beeps*, etc. Community Standard will be, to behave like the Diplomatic Corps (without Cablegate issues) - and so on. La dolce vita - is over, eaten, done.

Why would LL tattoo underwear on default avatars if they expected and intended Second Life to be a porn site? Because they have no informations about nature? Can it be possible that the LL management has tattooed underwear on their human and/or avatar skins?

I don't know. I have no spy in the company, so I have no idea what they incubate.

Nany Kayo says in response to ZenWarrior Fuosing At that rate of return, you are not a significant customer for LL, so it doesn't really matter what you think. LL would have little reason to pay attention to what you or others who have already opted out have to say. It is the customers who are still in the game who matter. An old german tradesmen quote, roughly translated by me: "Who doesn't honor the cent is not worth the dollar" Means: if many small tier paying people reducing their costs, it *will* hit LL *hard*

I have read that all again, provided my 2 cents somewhere above and made now a summary from my view which I like to share with you Linden Lab: Linden Lab should concentrate all efforts only on technology, reasonable prices, advertising the platform and excellent customer service. This is all what we need. Here are the reasons: I have no doubt that the youth is the future, because this is logical, but the age of 18+ is young enough to be the future of Second Life. It worked in the boom times and it will work in the future if you advertise the platform in a professional way. The younger youth may wait until being 18+, same like Linden Lab can wait on them. Every single day hundreds of thousands of kids turning 18+ on this planet. This is early enough to catch them daily (sic!) via good advertising. And it is not rocket science to do so. Really.. I suggest to keep things as simple as possible and going back to the simple basics like we had them from start on. This is the only elegant solution, because it is simple, easy, fast and fun like a prim. 18+ as entry level and 2 simple ratings. General and Mature (or call Mature = Adult because we are adults in all common international meanings of the vocable) Linden Lab should immediately stop to do: - demographic policy: - social policy - cultural and educational policy because trying all that fails on every level and seen from every perspective. This is what I strongly believe and I have the strong impression that this is also what the majority of the customers strongly believe, when I read the nearly 100% negative reactions on the new 16+ policy - in this blog and in all forums we have. We were told from 2003 on, that we literally *own* this world and that we *make* this world Second Life and we were told that Linden Lab would have no plans to mix kids and adults, because Second Life was clear announced as an adult environment. It just makes a good reputation and it helps to impove the human condition (hint, hint - this is your goal, right?! You said so in every "TAO", or was this a lie?) if you LL give to customers what you have *promised* and not take away from us what you have promised: Our World. Our Imagination. Without restrictions (except criminal activities and griefing). And your only job as a provider is - and for that we pay - to provide the technology and an excellent customer service, incl. the best you can add to help us to cover our IP rights, because we make the content and the atmosphere in Second Life and not you. This was the deal and this should be further the deal, because it is a successful deal as we all know, incl. you LL.. We are your partners, you know? We co-exist in this way on a creative and on a business level. This works only if the highest possible level of freedom and spontaneity on the grid is given to us!. Too much zoning, too much rules, too much quarantine of activities will kill the former spirit and thrill of Second Life. You should not destroy this creative and even monetary successful project for no reason, because it will not kill your, nor our business, if Second Life starts for people from age 18+ and upwards. This is all what we adult customers need. Really. We *never* asked and yelled for more, nor less.

That was then. This is now. It was then, when I gave much money to LL. And now I don't. (This is often the logical result, if a company plays the then-and-now-game *wrong*)

I wonder: does LL know that it happens every day, that hundreds of thousands - and maybe more - of young people turning 18+ on the planet and that it is early enough to join the grid at age of 18+ ? So, why hurry? People growing older and never younger, no exception - do you know that by chance?. The fresh supply of new 18+ customers for the grid is potentially endless by nature if you advertise SL properly. The simple solution is, to just wait on them and doing some professional advertising to catch them. This would be *fast, easy and fun* for all of us - without maximizing risks and trouble for kids, the company and us adults. They do *not* run away. Every teen *will* turn 18+ one day, for sure, believe me, like alone today thousands of kids on earth turning 18+, you know? Terrence, CEO, the board? And re: "We all have much to learn from each other." - ahm...but what? Rezzing a prim? How to handle money? Platon's Politeia? I hold three academic degrees from Universities in Germany and Austria. I travel the world, I sit on masses of life experiences, I have business and I know the SL environment since 4 years. I strongly believe that there is nothing what I could learn from teens and I am not here to teach them, sorry. For learning they have parents, grandparents, schools, teachers, professors, medias, whatever - oh and Torley's famous vid tutorials if it is about SL. I know..., the decision is made and it devaluates the *freedom and spontaneity aspects* (formerly known as: Your World. Your Imagination.) of SL *again*, like the Mature rating is brutaly devaluated since last year, but if you have to bring them in, it will be smart to listen one single time to suggestions and to establish something logical: give them their own General rated continent, instead of mixing G and M sims together, because it just makes no sense to mix Ratings on continents, because you know: the cam is such a beast and does not know borders, - same problem with IMs, groups/chat and so on. Lock them away into kind of quarantine, like you do it with the 13 - 15 y old, and all is ok. But as said: the easiest way is, if they (and you LL) are just simply waiting until they are 18 y old. This happens every day, that a kid turns 18 and then a person is - by common law in the free world - ready to join whatever there is to join on the planet. From A - Z. The whole alphabet. It is not rocket science.

Ok, I live in Austria and it was not bad for the start. Avatar rezzed in ~1 minute, moving and teleporting was smooth, graphics and inworld environment rezzing time was perfect. I was on my second and more average machine.: Intel Quad Core, Vista, Nvidia 9600GT, 4GB RAM, I used IE8. Internet via fast cable connection. No problems. So, the impression is really good so far. I was only 5 minutes in, but will test further in the evening after work and on another machine with Win7 and more RAM.

Ok, - but the sidebar should disappear completely. Except dray-horses, I don't know any other creatures on earth which running around with a sidebar or blinds - undockable or not - in their fields of sight. Please provide us a viewer which is able to offer a natural view without hindrance. Less is more. Keep things simple and functional like v 1.23.5 is, or make them at least best of both worlds. It seems the team is now working somehow in the right direction, which is appreciated, but this should be done consequently, means: less clicks to reach important functions (i.e. for builders and for organizing things) and please throw the sidebar into the trashcan. Free sight on Greenland! ;-)

This looks like stable stagnation (or vigil coma = not dead, but also not really alive).

Welcome :-)