Vryl Valkyrie

To be honest I do miss having Lindens inworld but it's the other possibility of corruption that I hate... and I'm not accusing Lindens of being corrupt but I feel that if we are not careful going back to the old ways can lead to corruption, intentional or not. If they can have an inworld presence without joining resident groups or vise versa, fan groups, etc adding favs to their picks, then possibly it can be a positive. I still think it should be limited on a control basis, not random "wow there is a linden" where they become this kind of iconic subculture popstar, if that makes sense.

Thanks Laskya for your post but personally I see giving Lindens an inworld presence again is a step backwards. I don't see anything empowering with that other than for the people who will become their fans and worshippers by joining their groups, etc or striving to have their store in their picks. There will be too much room for abuse of power and all about who you know as in the good ole boy network is alive and well. Personally I feel that the SL experience is more immersive without inworld Linden presence or at least with limited presence except for special occasions like SL birthday or other major events.

Thanks I can read and it's nice to see you can read too. As I said was merely sharing the article, plus I think it is relevant.

This is not anything we didn't already know but thought I would share anyway. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/technology/british-spies-said-to-have-intercepted-yahoo-webcam-images.html?hpw&rref=technology

Just for fun, thought I would throw this out there for metaphoric fun. Could Snow Crash been a kind of vision/prophecy to the real snow crash of cyber leaks by Snowden which would eventually lead to the beginning of the so called Matrix haha? Just joking of course because that is really not what the book is about but I couldn't resist. :)

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sanctuarium/86/209/23 Commercial/residential .. great neighbors, waterfront, adult community, 1/4 sim, 3750 prims, estate rights, terraform, only 20K Lindens monthly .. pay land to move in or contact Vryl Valkyrie for more info. Thank you.

Thanks, gave you a kudo for your advice. However I know about the billing number and have contacted support but still have not received a response yet. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else.

Normally I am billed in April but it seems that I have been billed today 4 months early.. no warning, nothing at all. I have submitted a ticket but was curious if this has happened to anyone else? Thanks. PS I called support and it seems that it was a bug and they fixed it asap.. Yay!

Imagine this for virtual worlds. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/illumiroom/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/technologylive/2013/01/10/microsoft-illumiroom-video-games/1823121/

Thank you for sharing Melita.. beautiful.

I haven't posted here in so long. I'm just feeling so very sad, crying.... :-( I wanted to share this song with our amazing community because it describes my feelings excactly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy3qplsjH1g&list=UUTaevJgpY78By0ELxeJmQpA&index=1

Thanks for update. I hope there will be a near future revamp of many other catagoies also. In my personal opinion, categories have always been messed up... especially for textures. Textures should be a major category. I think that most new customers will not think to look under building components for textures. They will just type in the main search.

Adult Luxurious Waterfront - affordable .. Move in today! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sanctuarium/51/227/22 Land for Rent .. (parcel 2) 1/4 sim for rent.. 3500 prims.. only 20K Lindens per month.. terraform rights.. both commercial and residential .. pay to move in.

Adult Luxurious Waterfront - affordable .. Move in today! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sanctuarium/51/227/22 Land for Rent .. (parcel 2) 1/4 sim for rent.. 3500 prims.. only 20K Lindens per month.. terraform rights.. both commercial and residential .. pay to move in.

I like what he has to say about creativity .. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/video/2010/aug/02/games-rod-humble-ea-create

Can I say "yay"? Welcome aboard Rod.. we don't bite.. too hard that is. I'm looking forward to see what you bring to the table. I'm excited by the possibilities in 2011. What a great Christmas present to the users of Second Life..

I just got mine.. so yay. I called billing support and they had a slight delay due to technical difficulties. It seems resolved.

Can't say I agree with all your decisions Jack. I am sad to see you go. Thanks for all your hard work and devotion through the years. I wish you the best wherever you go.

It's been more than 24 hours and the funds still have not been credited to my account. I called billing and the reply was "they're working on it" .. which tells me absolutely nothing at all. Please communicate with us. Tell us "something" other than "we're working on it". Thank you.

You could have at least told us what time. I just cashed out this second and then it would not let me transfer USD. Why did it allow me to sell Lindens yet not allow me to transfer the funds out?

Torley, visual clutter is exactly what the sidebar is. It is also damaging to the peripheral vision. I sincerely hope someone at the Lab realizes this and at least gives users the option to hide it completely. It would also be nice to resize the clunky view window.

Hi Jack, thanks for the blog. On another subject.. can you please verify if it is true that you are leaving us or not? I hope not.

Thanks Suezanne for sharing that blog link. It does work.. although I had no problems logging in myself.. I guess due to the reasons Maniac has stated. Anyway.. special thanks to Daniel Voyager for working out a fix for those inquisitive minds of SL.. which is mostly all of us! :-)

That's so cute, lol.. "second life is getting "undressed" .. only Stroker would write this :-)

What's wierd is that Gaikai's site says you must have current flash and java when they do not even have current java. Each time I do access the SL beta site, I get 3 java security error messages that their java is outdated and poses a potential security threat.. therefore I must manually approve it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/21005444@N05/5186538757/ I've been reading up a bit and apparently the SL Beta is part of Gaikai's beta program which also included other applications commencing on the 17th of November. SL users are not the only ones having issues. More about others experiencing similar issues on other apps besides SL: http://www.destructoid.com/game-streaming-gaikai-service-enters-open-beta-187943.phtml