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Leal Choche

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    Spot on?

    Are you joking or just hopelessly naive?

    is one of the first things most employers look at when you apply for a job.  If youre SL is linked in any way to your facebook an employer wont touch you. if you have a job already allot fo companies will fire you for it. especially if you have a very consienscious employer or you work for a government agency.

    And yes even if you have a SL facebook profile it can still get linked to your rl one too.  and thats exactly what these aps are doing...

    @Cummere Mayo - Thank you for your reply.  (I always appreciate evidence that someone read my post!)

    "Spot on" - yes because social networks use the email account as the link for 'common' identities.

    Not taking offense, I would proffer that if an employer is data-mining Facebook accounts that in and of itself is enought to make things questionable.  Afterall, is all of that 'information" on the Facebook postings really acceptable?  The parties?  The friends?  The postings?  The opinions?

    It would seem that if one's Facebook account is being used as the same weight as a resume, then the George Orwellian world of 1984 is truly in the here and now. Hurray for those countries that are trying to catch up with the tide of Internet social networks!   What one posts on a blog, etc. should be controlled by the poster, not the hosting company.  At the moment, it seems that Mr Zuckerberg's attitude that anything posted on his 'free' website is his to use (it that is what is happening as some say..)....well...that will need to come to an end if the Internet is to be what we think it is...which it isn't quite right yet.  ((that may need to be reread again to make sense...but it does. ok))

    Since the key to most social networks is the email address....using a common email address for identity for them will most likely blend them.  Different email addresses are the firewalls between blending identities.  IP address - when computers can be used by more than one person - are not so reliable for making those connections.

    BTW - Speaking to the concern of privacy which seems to have become a branch of this original thread.....of all the browers that are readily available for use - Safari, EI, Chrome, Firefox are the ones I am thinking of - it is Firefox with the "NoScript" add-on that seems to be the most open and helpful firewall for privacy.  Only speaking from personal experience,  the NoScript shows all the scripts on a site that are trying to data-mine as you look at it.  The brilliance of this particular program is that you can generally turn off all but the more essential scripts for looking at a site.  I do not recommend this particular browser and add-on, but I would not tell anyone not to try it out either. I wouldn't want to stop anyone from having a postitive experience.

    ok

  2. Second Life was, is and perhaps will always be a work in progress.  If I remember correctly, it did not start out with residents doing all the major building, but very early on it was recognized by LL that the residents were, could and did create the major content of Second Life.

    Yes, because of when it started, newer worlds may be using more recent technology, but it seems that LL is making attempts to upgrade and make it even more scalable.

    Bugs in software are always annoying, no matter what program they are in.  But I have to say that from my limited experience here....the system-wide outages (like living in a country with only one power generator) seem to be pretty much a thing of the past.  Gone are the 'rebooting the entire grid' message mostly it seems.

    Any new software change is a very big deal.  Thousands of companies were not able to make the change and upgrade back long ago when Microsoft changed from their DOS based system to their Windows system.

    It does take time to redo technology especially as it evolves.   Gone now on most modern printers are the parallel port...the de rigueur if only a few years ago.  Things do change.....

    Compare Windows 7 to Windows 95.....that seems like more than just the century difference each was made in.

    Viewer 2 is different...but it is barely one year old.   I would say that LL has listened to its residents in making great strides in its usability (from making buttons optional, to the tear-off tabs) and I for one look forward to more. (Especially more of the camera control, DOF and other really charming goodies.)

    The fact that the very basis, still, of Second Life, is that it is a resident created environment is the most exciting. Yes, there are DMC issues, but that is true for all of the Internet.   The entire Internet is still in its infancy stages.

    Overall, I think LL has learned to crawl with Second Life.  Like I said, I believe it is a "work in progress" and I look forward to the new tools (mesh?, DOF, etc.) that may be coming.  I look forward to the time someone gets an 'Oscar' for their film done in Second Life, to when most musicians will be synced to Second Life as they play their RL venues (only in Second Life they may be playing in more exotic locals...) and use inputs like "Kinect" to mirror their RL actions into SL so the two are REALLY synced!;... and it is used also as a way for those in RL to visit virtual mirrors in Second Life of those in RL (I am thinking virtual museums, etc, here.)

    View 2.5 Beta release shows an attempt by LL to improve Second Life.  That is good.

    However....I, for one....and waiting and getting prepared for the really really view upgrade...Viewer 3.xxx.  With 120hz monitor, am ready, willing and able, except for the viewer, to see Second Life in the way it was meant to be seen...in 3D!

    Ok!

    Oh!!!    PS - As I read over the many comments in the blogs regarding LL, I always wonder how much would be making the same type of comments if instead of having the name Linden Lab, they had the name Greystone Industies?  And where and what Second Life would be then.....am not sure if eveyone would display the same attitudes if the TOS were the same as V-World.....

    Ooooh!!  PPS - Since this is written on what in U.S. is called "Super Bowl Sunday" - am wondering how soon it will be when all the players have little trans-emitters woven in their clothing, are tracked by that "kinect-like" device and are also playing inworld.   If one can make one virtual stadium...one could make a thousand, or ten thousand....so I can't see a limit on who could watch that game as an immersive event....Oh?  not to mention the World Soccer Cup too!!   All while using Viewer 3.xx...hmmmmm.  ok

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    Profile Notes are one of the most important ways to keep track of the hundreds of people I have met in Second Life.  It smooths the awkwardness of needing to ask someone who the heck they are when they contact you out of the blue months later.  It's a good place to jot down email addresses and phone numbers, or the last time you talked to an avatar that has been sitting unused at the bottom of your Friends list for months. - Nany Kayo

     

    Agreed, yes, spot on!

  4. @Darien - You have definitely found situation where hiding one's profile from search creates an unintended problem.

    I am not so sure that the term "stupid" is the appropriate way to describe this set of circumstances.   I suspect the reason LL provided residents the option to hide from search is to maintain a level of privacy. 

    Actually, in RL, this type of situation also happens quite easily, as when one maintains a high privacy setting on a web site for a credit relationship....when trying to talk to a representative, they cannot help because the privacy setting prevents the company's own employees from looking at the personal information.  That is, not until one resets their privacy setting, or discloses some personal security key so that the employee can then help.

    In SL, you seem to have uncovered a situation where one's selection to be private prevents a business owner like yourself from helping your customer.  I would suspect that neither the customer, you or LL intended for you not to be able to help the customer.

    Like I said, I think you have discovered the unintended consequence of a privacy setting.  I suspect the code writers of the privacy settings did not foresee that particular situation.  Now that it is discovered, it probably something to be fixed.  Perhaps a Jira on this might be appropriate to file.

    As a small merchant, the discovery of such a potential problem is appreciated. ok.

  5. Looking good....hmmm....now the toga is a few thousand years old, and the log cabin a bit more recent.  Am waiting for the day for a time when the head turns!    Ok...looking forward to a good 2011.   Nice post of your explorations.    Now if only making a guess...you may have about 14,800 more prims to use on that sim!  ok Since it seems you are starting out with NO experience in SL...will be interesting on how your experience guides the ship...  Welcome!

  6. (sorta on/off topic here....) Regarding Version 2.5.0 and the Second Life Viewer numbering policy - http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Version_numbering  According to the policy...the "5" of version 2.5 seems proper since it is a "minor" revision.  However, I make an observation that according to the progress being made, there are only about 5 more of thse "minor" revsions until you run into version 3.xxx?   I would think...that that version..."3.xxx" would be better for when the viewer has 3D capabilities.....

    Maybe the version should be called  2.005.0 <- that way one can get the sense there are a few more versions available until the limit of version 2.x is reached.  ok

  7. "My Profile" <side bar item>  Well, this is definitely a beta version......now...the Side Menu has a tab with a Person silhouette for looking at My Profile...but when that tab is selected...the Side Menu slides out..and except for ones pic....no information except a button that says "Profile."  Hmmmmm...thought I just clicked a tab to see My Profile.  Ok...click the button and a screen filling web page opens up.   The logic is getting a bit confusing....

    My guess is the folks working to make the web pages work, were never quite comfortable with the side bar thingy, so basically the Side Bar tab is dissed <and dismissed> and just becomes an extra - not quite why do I have to do this...thing - step.

    Ok - maybe a suggestion here..pick a lunch date, order some pizza or other fav food and get both teams together, state what you like, what you did, and how you see your particular take working......go around the room, everyone gets about 4 mins at first, then a second round of 2 mins, - btw - someone takes notes on a white board - then open to comments...be sure to assign a moderator - and end this TWO HOUR session with a coherent goal and steps to get there.

    ok - if you need a facilitator for this, let me know, i think i could find the time...provided there is a nice green salad with greek olives and cheese.  ok

  8. "Logging in to your Favorite Locations" - very nice.

    I see that there is mention when selecting this option that 'anyone on this computer may see these'. 

     

    Suggestion - make these available on a separate page AFTER the Login is selected...that way the resident name and password has been verified, and the resident then gets to select where to end up.  This 'extra' page would

    • not be hard to do,
    • would only be available to those who chose to have this option
    • keep these selections private.

    ok - done!

  9. @Cummere  - ok....well i was referring to how 2.4 functioned.

    Regarding world.secondlife.com...maybe information is stored there...but i was unfamiliar with such a web site.  When i try to go there...i get this message...ok

    This webpage is not available.

    The webpage at http://www.world.secondlife.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address

  10. @Hitomi - Right.....this picture aspect ration really has to be kept solid between all versions, etc.  LL needs to make a decision on what aspect ratio they want. 

    My sense of the 'square' mode is to mimic other blog/social network sites' personal/avatar  pic.

    If they want to go square, then any Snapshot used will be squished.  That really is not acceptable.  Someone needs - if they are going to keep the AR to 1:1, to allow some simple editing program to select the square from the rectangular Snapshot.  That would solve ALL squishing forever.  Done.

    This concept of adjusting the selected picture to fit the 'profile pic' is not something new.  I am sure the LL programers are quite familiar with the many many many blogs and other sites that have limited editing options to select a portion (or all) of a picture.  Nothing new here.....just a realization that no picture is ideally suited as it comes, or is made to fit the (seems to becoming the standard for social and blog profiles) square picture.

    Looking forward to having that editing option in the next or even update of this viewer version.  ok!

  11. Ok - first, short comment on the Web Profile.... the title "IMPROVED Web and Viewer Profiles" is a bit of a misnomer.  This is more of the addition of a new item and a change, than an 'improvement per se. 

    More of 1) an ADDITION as a web based operation, since this web option has not existed before (one cannot 'improve' something that has not existed before 2) a CHANGE in the Viewer, since the web view now replaces the way the Viewer 2.x has handled profiles previously. This new web version completely replaces the side bar with floating option of V2.4.

    Now...to the new stuff...Since the 'Social Team' is starting to update the web experience, I will repeat here earlier Jira's from the past:

    Both of these are to be able to put inworld Snapshots on the web Dashboard.  Thus....the inworld Profile is limited to as previous and historical - picks and groups.  But, on the web (the resident's Dashboard) is the addition of Snapshots.  

    To make it a bit more complicated, and to preserve privacy, there needs to be options to make such Snapshots on the web Dashboard page viewable only by resident, or by friends, or by all.

    Also, for the Social Team looking at putting Snapshots on the web Dashboard, please refer to Jira VWR-18327 https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-18327 Viewer Snapshot Functions: Changes, Modifications and Enhancement Program Proposal.  In particular, this Jira discusses the needed addtion of metadata (EXIF - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format )  to ALL Snapshots and texture files download from Second Life.   The Jira explains this more.  ok

  12. Well the web page of a resident is convenient...when NOT inworld.  However.....

    As a web page viewer...good work!  with a few caviats....

    When inworld.   2.5 now does NOT let you see a profile in the side menu as all others, but opens up a web window...that is very volumous and ends up covering a large portion of the window....NOT good.  At the very least...lets let there be an option of viewing Profiles in:  Side Menu  Web Page...  As it stands..this new web page view of a Profile is way too loosy goosy...way too large.

    OK....this is now supposed to be 'web based' info....As a web page, it is ok..although still seems could be made a bit more effecient...However...that is information taken from a resident's personal information, so Q....that information can be displayed any way you want to show.  The code is already written for the side viewer....which is pretty compact.  The web page is not.

    Also, not sure how the Do Not Show a group is working...seems not to work in this system... Groups that are made "private" are not private but can be seen in the web page viewer!!  Yuck!

    So...I guess a Jira is needed...*sighs....*more paper work.   To recap:

    1. Web view of Profile in Viewer (and not in sidebar) is way too bulbous (roomy, big, large, etc.) and not quite as effecient.

    2. Web view of profile in web page is good.  But make sure if a group is not to be public, it does NOT show up in the web page.

    3. Provide an option to view a profile in the sidebar, or as a 'web page' in the Viewer internal web browser...

    ok. thanks

     

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    updated 1/19/2011

    I think i realize how this Viewer use of a browser window for profiles got by any use test by the code writers....they are using LARGE monitors!! 

    For the browser window to open in a 22 or 28" monitor, it is no problem....but on a 15" or even a 17" monitor, that web page profile fills the screen way too much.

    Inventory transfer?   Have to check that.   It seems that does not work anymore with the Viewer?  Hmmmm?  Ok.

    Linden Lab's New CEO

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    No...that is NOT a Second Life build http://lat.ms/gNM7C3 but what if it was?

    Second Life started as an alternative...but think about the possibilities if it were to give people a way to visit places far flung? 

    For many seasoned SL residents, Paris 1900 might come to mind.....but let's get back to the example just presented. 

    What if those NYC architects had taken it upon themselves to present not just some 2D drawing, but a build in Second Life?   How many Los Angeleans would jump into SL to get a taste of this quite interesting design?  How many world wide?  Then...oops!...what do you know...they are now SL residents.

    How many other designers would follow that lead and do likewise....?    That would sorta answer the question of what is there to do or see in SL?

    Oh?  and how about the museum holding a concert there?  Hmmmm......then learning it could have TWO museums...for the price of one?  ((the cost of a virtual museum is not necessarily cheap cheap

    And then what about other museums....

    Ok...bottom line.....think outside the box....

    Linden Lab's New CEO

    Āiwaiwa !!! *

    Aloha and Pomaika`i Rod!

    What a wonderful Kalikimaka makana**  for Second Life residents!

    Linden Lab could not find a better Boki***!!

    To quote a movie line....."Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

     


    * Fantastic
    ** Christmas Gift
    *** Chief

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  13. That is good to hear....the 3rd party viewers making themselves more compatible with the regular 'official' SL viewers.  Seeing people standing with things sticking out of their stomach always seems a bit weird.

    Yes...Viewers 2.X  allow more things that can be worn IF the ADD option is used, not the WORN.  And seems to go for attachments too.  Nice.

    Switching to a different viewer is a bit like moving to a new house, or cooking in someone elses kitchen.  In either case, at first you dont know where anything is or stored.  ;/  But, after a few days, one learns where things are stored and new shortcuts are learned.  I think that is suppose to make more brain connections when you have to relearn such things.

  14. Take display names, Well guess what boys and girls I got bad news for you. LL did that and now wheather  you like to hear this or not, griefers can take your name and get you banned from SL permanetly. Did you ever stop to think about that.

    @Irodreth Daviau

    Your 'real name' aka your account name, is what is tied to your account.  The Display Name is just that...display.  Like wearing a name badge at a convention.  When the officer wants to arrest you, they are not going to look at your paper convention badge, they are going to ask for your photo ID like your drivers license... 

    Also, you have the choice of where you see other Display Names or not.  I think Display Names are not the boondoggle some people project it to be.

    Viewer 2.xxx is fresh code - as others have pointed out.  The newer versions are rolling out at a fantastic clip - and with not the crashing that was happening ...say...three years ago.  A vast improvement...that is the 2.3 current live version (the 2.0 was a mis-labeled beta...and many of the original criticism have been well answered.)  ok

  15. @Rich Revnaud  -  *I think there is an 'app' for that!! (well, a Preference item)

    Me / Preferences / Advanced / Automatic position for: / Sidebar

    Action:

    Sidebar is checked = SidebarCameraMovement = True

    Sidebar is UNchecked = SidebarCameraMovement = False

    No need to use the Debug Settings to make the change.

    When checked, the width of the screen is shrunk ~ 80% (about 10% screen width from each side disappears when the sidemenu is slide out) 

    HUDs that are against the right side (when the Sidebar is 'docked' - will be covered if they are within that area that temporarily disappears.

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