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I feel like the internet has degraded my ability to spell since leaving college in the mid 90's. Since then allot of bastardised American English spellings have crept into my brain and I find myself constantly questioning my spelling. This has generally not been a major issue as I can rely on a proper English spell checker, however last year I started a degree in Computer Animation and I really came a cropper recently when it came to sitting my first exams, I don't have access to a spell checker so I really had to focus not to put bloody Z's instead of S's in some words. I blame these forums. We doez need to be teachingz these Americanos wot the bestest way of spellage 'n' grammar is instead of juzt lettin em make it up as they does go along.

LillyBeth Filth wrote: Prat is an English slang word for an idiot. I can confirm I can also confirm that it is generally only used by the over 40's :smileywink:

If LL were to lower tier I think it needs to be coupled with a move to charge listing fees on the MP. The knock on effect of these two actions could offset the loss in revenue from the tier reduction for the lab I think. Lower tier for everyone, charge listing fees on the MP, Lower prices means more people pick up land. More land in use results in more content being sold to be used on that land. MP listing fees would drive merchants back onto grid either out of necessity, protest or because they are enthusiastic about expanding due to the increased demand for content and lower tier prices. By lowering tier and charging for listing fees LL would be driving the pick up of land from multiple directions, initially it would be the normal users/consumers and merchants picking up land, then the service providers kick in as the demand for commercial and private rental is revitalized, clubs and malls and "destinations" would all be inspired to invest in cheaper tier to support the returning, expanding and new merchants and users/consumers. The recovery would be a rolling one spread over many many months, but I think LL could ultimately increase their revenue and user numbers from such a move.

I got the same email form xstreet. I have never received any emails about needing to migrate to DD from LL. If I had not of been active in SL and aware of DD then that xstreet mail would have been my first indication that something is wrong. I wonder how many inactive SL merchants are facing that scenario.

Deja Letov wrote: I checked early this morning and we had 2,518,726 listings. Right now we have 2,491,898 listings. Down by almost 27,000 listings already. Won't be complete until the 19th but I'm really curious as to how many listings this is potentially going to kill off. Take that back, down to : 2,490,906 Guess it will dwindle down slowly. It's down to 2016287 now, over half a million listings removed, nearly 20%.of the original total.

Ivo Takacs wrote: NEW ORDER NOW!!!! The whole world NEEDS to work as a single nation!!! The only way that will happen in the next few hundred years is if one nation or a coalition conquers all the others.

Pamela Galli wrote: When I ask for help, as I do, say, in the Mesh forum here, I often specify I am requesting "the Dummies version" or some variation on that theme. In fact Drongle euphemisticaly will dumb down his explanations saying "I know you don't like math" LOL. So when requesting help, would you consider asking for "the retarded version" as opposed to "the dummies" version? They are both tantamount to the same thing and equally offensive. Or would you not have an issue referring to yourself as a retard? This is in no way meant as an insult as you are obviously not a dummy/retarded.

Rya Nitely wrote: There must be so many insulted people out there. I'm surprised the success of all these books :smileyfrustrated: If a person consciously decides to purchase a book that offensively insult's their mental capacity on the front cover, well then I guess the publishers have met their target market. But just because the customer base for that series of books are not offended by having their mental capacity questioned through offensive terminology, plenty of other people are So citing examples of other instances of the offensive use of the word "dummy" does nothing to detract from the offensive use of the word in this thread.

Tari Landar wrote: Are you saying we're not? I'm of the belief that at some point, we all have our dumb moments.I sure as heck do, and I read instructions, quite thoroughly. I still sometimes need something that spells things out for me a bit more clear. Even if it's been posted or explained a milllion times by a million other people. I probably wouldn't have chosen the words for dummys, either. But that doesn't mean anytime it's used it was intended to be offensive and nothing more. Of course we don't all share the same sense of humor, so it may not be funny to some. It's certainly not worthy of the attack it got, though. That was a tad over the top. I mean if we're going to complain about something being offensive, I'm pretty sure that being offensive with our complaining isn't going to accomplish the goal any quicker either. The whole tit for tat thing is a bit silly once we've reached adulthood. My kids can't even get away with that, lol. I don't think focusing on that one word was really all that important. But, I can't decide for others what is and isn't. So I don't think there's anything wrong with being offended, but I do believe there's a much better way of conveying that. When a person is referred to as a dummy, it is the equivalent of calling them stupid or mentally retarded. If you want to publicly admit you are a dummy then that is your prerogative. If you think the mods should leave offensive thread titles in the forum then that is your prerogative. Just because you are not offended by a word does not mean others should not be offended. Just because you do not think others should challenge the use of the word through discussion, does not mean I cannot. Not much offends me but due to personal circumstance the use of the world "dummy" or the equivalent word "retard" greatly offends me. If you don't want to see me complain about it then I suggest you direct your eyes somewhere else because it is going to go on until this thread title changes or until the thread dies..

Rya Nitely wrote: some people are just mean, what you can you do? Not implying that merchants are Dummy's would be as good a place as any for the OP to start.

Nyll Bergbahn wrote: Linden lab should never have stopped the discounts but offering a discount to new customers only is hardly new to the marketing world. Banks, telephone companies, electricity and gas companies etc frequently use this marketing ploy. Hopefully it will bring many new residents to SL and improve LL's balance sheet. All those types of companies you mention generally widely advertise the fact that they have special deals for new or returning customers. It's an obvious selling point. LL have not done this and I have to wonder why. If they have deals available to attract new business then they should be shouting about it from the rooftops.

PhoebeDesmons wrote: You wasted your time and the time of other people looking for answers. Hardly a waste of time. The "Dummy's" need to realise that following your instruction will not consistently result in a smooth migration. They need to realise that some of the problems that they are encountering are not a result of their lack of ability to follow simple instructions, but in fact, are the result of a process that does not work properly for everyone.

June 1st 2004. The day before my birthday, a good friend came down from London and stayed overnight. We drank allot, we smoked allot, By late evening we were completely mashed. He started telling me about Second Life. I installed the viewer on my machine, he logged into his account and I got my first experience of SL. He had built this cool multi tiered platform/house type thing on top of a mountain peak, his avatar was a robot, and he could fly, he was streaming music in to his parcel from an FTP server....I remember it was playing Underworld - Born Slippy when i arrived, he had invented and built his own 3D board game called "Meknes" and he taught me how to play, then he took me to Abbots Aerodrome and we got a plane each and started flying around the sim. In my inebriated state I thought this was the coolest "game" I had ever seen. He purchased me a 1 month premium membership for my birthday and the rest is history, I have been here ever since.

PhoebeDesmons wrote: I am getting tired of seeing pages, and pages worth of "instructions" when it's a simple process. I find your thread title and this quoted sentence condescending. I guess some people will find this thread helpful, but it is just another of many threads exactly like it. You are just adding another thread to the pages worth of instructions already available, thus becoming part of the problem you are tired of. The problem with DD migration is that it is not a simple process that works consistently for everyone. So whilst your experience with migration may have been positive to the extent that you self-righteously take it upon yourself to come here to tall us all how easy it is and how tired you are of reading threads of people who try to help instruct others, the fact of the matter is, if you follow Linden Lab's instructions....or your own for that matter, then there is no guarantee that your product will be migrated to DD successfully without issue.

WADE1 Jya wrote: even little nothing websites run by amateurs would. :cathappy: That's no way to talk about the MP :smileywink:

Sassy Romano wrote: Regardless of opinion over the benefits or issues that some have had, the fact is that it has been available for over a year with a pending cut off date so why leave it so long? Because DD is a system developed by LL. MB's were not. Leaving it until the last minute meant I had a system in place that worked that did not require support, rather than a system developed by LL, which so far in my experience is inferior and does require support, which they are not able to satisfactory provide. I've been using DD for 2 weeks now and this past week has been better I will admit compared to the first week 14 days of use and my average delivery failure rate is only 40% now, improved from the +50% failure rate I was seeing last week. I have had more failed deliveries in 2 weeks using DD than I had in over 8 years of using MB's. I expected DD to be problematic and LL did not disappoint. This is a pattern they have repeated throughout the history of SL when rolling out "improvements" and it is the exact reason why I waited until the last minute. I was not going to voluntarily let LL sabotage my business until I had no other choice. I've migrated 1600 Listings so far. I've got about 1100 left. These will literally be left until the last day now, that is if my delivery faliure rate improves between now and then. If it doesn't then I see no point in continuing with the migration until DD is stable and usable for all merchants

Sassy Romano wrote: I don't know that i'd call it last minute yet but given that the system has been operational for over a year, one has to question the sense in waiting so long to migrate? Here are a few reasons for you to pick from.... It's pointless, The whole migration process is fraught with problems. It's time consuming I've got better things to do,

My team built three IBM regions, one in 2005 and two in 2006. They were so enthusiastic about SL, about embracing virtual platforms into their everyday workflow and ultimately operating their own platform, as you said. They let us into their inner circle for a while and we even ran building and scripting classes for them twice a week for about 6 months.There was so much money flowing out of IBM and into SL and we did everything we could to ensure that some of it flowed straight towards our pockets. Then in late 2006 something happened. I have no idea what, but overnight my team and all the others I knew of who were doing custom work for IBM were cut off. Our access was restricted within their network of regions and custom projects in progress were stopped without explanation. They thanked us for our time and paid us off and that was that. To this day I still do not know why, but by the end of 2006 it did not matter. RL business had arrived in SL and there were plenty of other cash shows eager for a milking. I did a few small custom jobs after that for individuals within IBM but there were no more requests for full custom sims, that business all seemed to start going in Anshe's direction.

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What is the funniest (clean) joke that you know?

Janelle Darkstone wrote: Whoa! Whoa, wait a sec! Why... why would anyone need their name embroidered on their backside? I mean, if someone is around to see you in your buttony hatchy underwear I'd hope they at least know your name already?! Maybe that isn't the guys name at all, but the name of his backside. Us guys all have pet names for our plonkers don't we? Yes indeed, my friendly one eyed trouser snake is called Steve. Maybe the guy in that picture decided to call his arse David.

Personally I am not a fan of briefs, I find the wearing of them results in an excessively sweaty gonad area. I'd rather plump for a baggy boxer short or just go o'natural and let them hang free. Hope that helps with your brief research.

Syo Emerald wrote: @Marketplace-discussion: I'm mostly a customer. The marketplace helped me in my early time to get affordable clothes and items and know helps me to safe time, when I'm looking for something where I don't already have a preferred brand or store. It would limit my shopping experience if I had to go inworld for research and spend about 30% of my time waiting for giant stores to rezz and wander around to finally realize everything there costs 200L$ and more. In the end shopping would get more frustrating for the customer and more expensive for the shopowner. There is no denying that the MP offers more accessibility to virtual products than any other method, it's one of the key reasons why it has been so successful, when you consider the alternatives, it is not suprising at all. However, the more success the MP has had, the more merchants abandon inworld stores and the more SL land ownership falls into decline resulting in the 2700+ private regions that were lost last year, around 10% of all the total private regions. At the moment LL are doing everything they can to ignore the problems crippling inworld commerce and are instead focusing their developmental efforts on the MP, a tactic that I suspect is already biting them in the arse or more specifically their bottom line. Can funneling sales onto the MP for a 5% commission really offset the loss of tier from all those lost regions? I doubt it but we don't have enough data to verify The solution is to close or semi-close the MP. They need to somehow incorporate the MP search engine into SL or something like it. Either that, or leave the MP in situ but disable all the "buy" buttons so that the MP can just be used as a search engine for inworld product locations. So you search for a dress and you are teleported to that dress inworld, not the entrance to a massive store, but to that specific product. I understand why you are an advocate of the MP, it has gone a long way to keeping SL commerce alive and has essentially made shopping easier for allot of people. However I think it should have been a temporary stop gap whilst LL developed a fair and efficient platform from which to conduct commerce inworld. Whenever I use the MP I feel like I am settling for second best, for a lousy plan B because LL are not willing or able to get plan A to work.

There was once a time when nearly all commerce was conducted inworld, 3rd party sites such as SLX and SLB facilitated only a tiny percentage of virtual sales. Tier was the same price as it is now and thousands of new merchants managed to launch successful businesses inworld myself included, multiple times over. Of course, inworld search and other factors that resulted in the demise of inworld commerce would have to be addressed. That is why the solution is not easy. Adopting my idea would result in less products and choice it's true, but is that a bad thing? SL markets are oversaturated with content. The best designers would stay and those serious about selling content in SL could start out small renting in malls and other commercial spaces (that would also be revitalized by my idea). My idea would also drastically reduce the amount of stolen and fraudulent content sold in SL.

Ciaran Laval wrote: The tier in Second Life is too damn high, but there's no easy solution there. LL aren't going to dramatically reduce their main source of income by slashing tier and gambling on that generating a rush in land purchases. It may not be an easy solution but I believe there is a solution. Step 1 - create 2 levels of tier, 1 for commercial use i.e. any land that facilitates the transfer of L$, and the other for non commercial use. Keep the commercial tier at the current rates. Lower non commercial tier by say, 25 to 50%. Step 2 - close the Marketplace. This would result in a land/tier rush from two sources, merchants picking up land in SL so they can continue to sell their products and services. Non merchants picking up land to take advantage of the reduced tier.