Innula Zenovka

Not sure how breakfast is a pet peeve, but my usual breakfast is a cup of hot chocolate to get me started (an idea I stole from the French) and then, after a shower, a couple of freshly cooked frozen croissants and a couple of cups of freshly ground black coffee.

I'm afraid I've never really understood how to use llGroundNormal or the RC_GET_NORMAL flag in llCastRay. If I want to rez something flush to a sloping surface or to lay flat on some sloping ground, how do I do it, please?

Since Thousand Island Dressing is pinkish, maybe we'll get Barbie dream houses, like the movie

The article to which you link, though, suggests that it's a good deal more complex than simply "Once the employer starts controlling hours of work, volunteers become employees and have to be paid": Linden Lab has access to its own in-house legal advisors and to external counsel. Presumably they're aware of Hallissey et al v. America Online, Inc, too, and have taken care to ensure LL isn't lining itself up for a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

Possibly there were. I had in mind the one to which I'd just responded, for obvious reasons, but it may well be that there are several different stories floating around -- without any details it's difficult to keep them all straight!

In other words, it confirms people's prejudices, based on what has happened in the past, with different programmes.

We are told, So at least one Mentor was using IMs, and we're not told how the other one was communicating. Nowhere is it said that any of this happened in open chat, though. It may have done, but we're not told that.

No, it's a simple request for context. All we have is a second-hand account of an incident which the person retelling the anecdote repeats without any detail whatsoever, and because it's so absolutely detail-free, I can't understand why so many people are giving it so much weight. Haven't people heard that SL dramas are frequently multi-sided thingies?

What helpful advice was your friend giving the new resident?

I've used the avatar's z axis primarily to check if their attachments can hear and respond to messages from my scripts after they arrive on a region. It's always proved reliable for that.

Depends what you're trying to do, I think. KVP is great if you're interested in storing, updating and retrieving particular records, but not so great if you want to look at lots of records at once. So I'd use KVP if I want to keep track of individual players' scores, but Google Sheets (or Big Query in extreme cases) if I wanted to produce a league table, at least if it's one of any size, or track all my sales records.

I'd try llGetAgentSize So, if (agentSize.z != 1.9), llGetObjectDetails should work (though I'm a bit surprised if(llGetObjectDetails([some_parameters]) !=[ ]) doesn't work too).

I can't speak from experience of the place but that certainly doesn't coincide with what I've heard about SL's Teen Grid.

Isn't a weed simply something that's growing where you don't want to be?

I find Sublime Text invaluable, primarily because of its formatting and shortcuts and code completion it offers. I am, though, having a problem with Sublime Text 4 and Makopo's plug-in. I want to use K&R style for the formatting and my default Sublime Text colour scheme. However, Preferences>Package Settings>LSL/OSLSL always reverts to ""User Viewer Theme" every time I re-open Sublime Text and, although K&R Style remains checked, it doesn't seem to have any effect. Neither does unchecking it. Anyone got any suggestions as to what's over-riding it? I've poked round and changed things were I can, but I'm getting nowhere.

To my mind, the Senra avatar will remove a large barrier to new user retention, no matter what viewer they're using. I shudder to think how many people must be put off when, on asking, "how do I customise my avatar to get it to look something like all these good-looking and well-dressed people I see around me?" are told "First you have to buy US$25 or $30 worth of L$ and use them to buy a mesh avatar and head for the top brands, or search around for freebie or introductory ones, but you can't really use the one Linden Lab provide".

To my mind there's bound to be a large change in the market because suddenly anyone who wants to try their hand at making clothes or accessories will be able to get hold of a dev kit to make stuff they can sell to anyone. A great deal of rubbish will, of course, be produced, but so, too, will some good stuff, and it seems inevitable that, regardless of what established creators do, we'll see talented new creators making clothes and accessories for the new bodies because an artificial constraint on their entering the market has been removed. Time will tell, though.

It seems to me that the market for mesh clothes is about to change quite dramatically, since your potential customers stop being "everyone who has bought a body made by one or more particular creators who'll give me a dev kit" to "everyone in SL, and particularly new residents who've decided they might want to stay a bit and buy some clothes in addition to those in their inventory when they start."

Yes, but that's my point -- if time is the constraint, why waste it rigging clothes for a load of different bodies, or making skins, when you rig them for the one body that you know everyone possesses, regardless of whether they also own any of the resident-made ones? I'd have thought the obvious course of action in those circumstances would be to stop supporting the bodies for which your sales were worst, rather than to refuse to cater for the largest possible market.

So why would they not use their limited time to create for the body they know they can potentially sell to everyone rather than one they know they can sell only to some people?

Since I don't make clothes, I'm probably missing something obvious, but I'm struggling to understand why anyone, when offered the opportunity to expand their market to everyone in SL by making outfits for bodies that everyone will now have in their inventories, rather than for the much smaller market of everyone who has bought a particular body, wouldn't jump at the chance.

Here's the bit in yesterday's Meet The Moles where he was talking about the new avatars

I think Patch said they hope to release it in the second half of "next month" (which I assume means July, since he was speaking on June 30). One obvious difference between this year's preview and last year's is that last year there was no female body to show us. Patch also said that they'd been producing a whole wardrobe of different clothes, hairs, etc to go with the avatars, which we haven't seen yet.

/me registers a scripted agent that runs around the region asking people to check all the squares containing traffic lights in the picture it's showing them.

However, despite being told that by several people (including me) in earlier threads in these forums, people were still complaining that LL weren't giving them the same ability to prohibit registered scripted agents that estate owners have. Regardless of what practical benefits this brings parcel owners (or estate owners), it gives people the sense of control for which they were asking, which was the point of my quoting Khrushchev's supposed remark to Nixon about the solution to complaints about imaginary lakes. (Come to think of it, I've seen something attributed to Aliester Crowley, which I rather prefer, about how the magician persuades someone afflicted by imaginary snakes that he has an imaginary mongoose to deal with them).