diamond Marchant

Based on this recent surveillance it appears that another way to connect Bellisseria to Satori protected water is to go from Lavon (west of Buiffalo Springs) to the most recent 35 region Linden Homes addition, which appears to be continentally drifting to the northeast toward Satori. The protected water channels would be on the edges,

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First of all, this is a lovely parcel with a nice home and beautiful landscaping. The person who bought the land and then abandoned it is a 2 day avatar. One would have to ask that person to get the reason for this strange behavior, but I would guess that they did this by mistake or they were just fooling around to see how land sales worked and decided to use their tier somewhere else. Or they decided SL was not for them, never to be seen again. You retain ownership of all the objects. If you wish you may go pick them up. Actually the objects might have confused them. They are no transfer so the new owner saw all this stuff they could not edit or move. If they had turned on auto return, it all would have poofed but perhaps they did not know how.

It is not obvious that anyone gains with higher priced rentals and land sales. The value of mainland parcels might stabilize or even go down, as Bellisserria parcels would now be Blake connected, increasing the supply of such parcels. Mainland water parcel prices are currently crazy high. For example, a 5120 sqm parcel in Poob with a mere 40m of beachfront and a small harbor recently sold for L$237,902 (approx US$1000). Owners of Blake Sea connected mainland parcels would be getting access to additional public protected water, not more land. We expect that Satori would be connected to Bellisseria the same way that way Sansara was connected to Jeogeot, that is, by creation of Linden Home regions having protected water along one or more edges. It is likely that the Satori landowners in the stretch from Graybar to Carver would remain disconnected. Linden Lab would receive revenue from the regions and the value of the Second Life asset would increase through the creation of a public benefit.

Here is a thumbnail of the exhibitor rules. See the SL19B Exhibitors Application for details. 1. No commercial displays or spamming 2. Unique build created by you and/or assistants 3. No collecting money 4. G Rated 5. No events 6. No camping or contests 7. No avatar bots 8. No copyright or trademark infringements 9. No illegally obtained content 10. No hate-oriented content 11. No deadline extensions 12. No parcel moving or water conversions 13. Acceptance not guaranteed "The Mole Coordinators will have the final decision whether a build meets and follows all guidelines and requirements. All decisions are final." Here are some things that are no longer explicitly prohibited: - 1024 textures - non-phantom non-surface objects - boxy buildings - walled parcels - exhibits from previous years - high script usage - exceeding your LI (may be a mistake so don't count on it) - build height limit - floating signs - skyboxes - excessive landscape overhangs - annoying light sources, full bright, and particles It is possible that some of these items may be explicitly prohibited in future mole-to-exhibitor communications. And now, a blast from the past... Patch and Squeaky touring SL16B prior to the opening.

The Game of Homes rules allow you to select 5 homes per day so you could keep selecting any available stilt until eventually you hit upon the desired region. If you want to go down this time consuming path, there may be some automation than can refresh the selection page and notify you when a stilt comes up. I am not current as to specifics but others may assist if you have such a desire.

diamond Misaki @ District X 2042 @ Bellisseria Fairgrounds thru April 4, DJs noon to 2pm, build by XaandarRaain

Your issue appears resolved but here is some extra advice for the future. 1. The easiest way to see the parcel organization of a region is the Mini-map with "Show>Property Lines" checked. 2. If you just need more prims, any parcel in the region will do... doesn't have to border on your existing parcel. 3. If you just need more prims, try hard to reduce LI first. Use World/Area Search and check "Current parcel only" on the Filter tab. When the list of objects comes up, sort it by LI. If you see any crazy high LI objects, try to replace them. It is usually much cheaper to purchase lower LI items compared to purchasing more land to get prims. Also if you are a prim builder, make sure you use the convex hull trick to halve your LI. I have had the same mainland parcel for 13 years and still replace stuff all the time. 🙂

Wish granted. Twelve new regions (360 homes) under construction.

In 2009 a RL friend who was in Second Life invited me to check it out. She brought me up to speed pretty quickly so I was able to function on day one. I have always appreciated that and think it is very important to continue in that tradition of helping others, which so many people here do. On that first day, she took me to the Belleza store where I bought skin for my system avatar and some hair (accidentally bought two). Amazing to me, that Belleza Brooke skin works great on Maitreya in BOM mode. The photo was taken today.

Why was SL built the way it was? Wasn't there, don't know, but... Second Life allows the residents to build/change things, so... there is always going to be a trade-off between "state saving" and performance. They just decided on what seemed reasonable at the time. Most creator tools have this issue. We all tend to adjust to this reality. For example, I change clothes ALOT and always save my "outfit" in Firestorm after getting dressed. I create waypoint lists for sailing cruisies and always detach/attach the waypoint editing HUD every few minutes lest I crash on a region crossing or TP and lose my work. Some attachments such as 7Seas fishing rods avoid losing state by updating a server on every cast. See how some creators adapt 🙂

Yes, and much of that code was Cobol. Back in the late 1950s Rear Admiral Grace Hopper invented the Cobol programming language to facilitate business data processing. By 1970, a majority of data processing software was written in Cobol. One of its innovations was machine independence, meaning the Cobol virtual machine could be ported to any mainframe hardware (and later mini computers and microprocessors). Cobol has a fixed point decimal data type. In those days main memory was scarce (measured in kilobytes) and punched cards were a common input device. A punch card has only 80 columns (since 1928) and years were typically allocated only 2 digits to save space. The irony is that because Cobol is not directly tied to arithmetic limits of particular hardware, years could have easily been 4 digits. The 2038 problem derives from the (C language) 32-bit signed integer data type that was prevalent in mainframe and some mini-computer (e.g. DEC) architectures of the 1970s. As described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem , various solutions to the problem have been implemented as a consequent of regular operating system and C runtime library updates. Since the early 2000s, microprocessors (e.g. Intel) have supported an 64-bit signed data type. It's hard to image that there will be much impact on the world in 2038. However, the Linden Scripting Language (LSL) used in Second Life needs to be fixed as the signed integer data type of the LSL virtual machine is 32-bit. This is mentioned in llGetUnixTime in the caveat as BUG-4703. Things like fishing series contests will break unless this is addressed.

To evaluate banlines, one must make assumptions about what problem is being solved. I suggest there are two such problems and both concern privacy. 1. How do I keep others from seeing my avatar and my stuff? 2. How do I keep others out of my parcel? Banlines address the "seeing" problem only partially. Anyone can cam into your parcel and look at your things. The only way to deny your objects from prying eyes is to control a region that has no neighboring regions. As for avatars, you can check a box that prevents others from seeing you unless they are on the same parcel. A general banline is limited in altitude, so a peeper can fly over your parcel to spy. However, you can ban individuals and this applies at all altitudes, denying them a fly over. The Linden Homes security HUD has an option that alerts you to peepers hovering around skyboxes. Banlines do better with the "keep out" problem. General banlines keep others out of your parcel at ground level up to the altitude limit. Banning individuals keep them out at all altitudes. But is there a better alternative? I think if we eliminate general banlines, keep individual banlines, and use orbs with 15 sec minimum times... all would be well. Water, road, and air traffic can deal with orbs set to reasonable times. Additionally, orbs solve the "keep out" problem almost as well as general banlines with minimal impact to innocent travelers. Problem peepers can be banned individually. Also, auto-banning by orbs should be frowned upon because the innocent can be unfairly targeted. In other words, the Linden Homes banline policy should be extended to mainland 🙂

It gets more interesting when you learn that Unix time "runs out" at 3:14:07 GMT on January 19 in 2038, less than 16 years from now 😱 Don't judge to harshly. The Invention of Unix Unix was a side project in support of a game 😁

I am a big fan of the Havana... one big room in the middle and two smaller ones to the sides... this one is open to the public and a water rez zone http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Memison/191/78/23

What she said... plus make the stage a parcel so you can set a teleport routing to a place above the club. Any attempt to TP onto the stage will be a self-ejection 😁

You are right and the situation with gatcha replacement machines is worse than I initially thought. In summary, the replacement machines remove the enjoyable brain chemistry you get from gambling and add having to wait to buy something and/or having to overpay to get what you really want. I suppose only resellers see no changes (they just buy in bulk as before). I don't have data on this, but it feels like since gatcha went away, there are more sub-L$100 sales. The replacement machines themselves may be an example of this as exactly one item per machine is always "on sale" (available for immediate purchase at a low price). Maybe that is why they still exist.

just chiming in.... Gatcha is apparently still legal in the United States (at least according to Redditors). The SL Gatcha ban is a policy based on a perceived unfavorable "regulatory climate". Everybody knows Gatcha is gambling. My favorite gacha machine of all time persisted for a while after the SL Gatcha ban but I checked today and it has finally been removed... the RO Doll Maker machine. Can't get enough of those creepy dolls. The element-of-chance-removed-gatcha-replacements seem ill conceived to me. They restrict your ability to purchase an item to an arbitrary time window. Seems the opposite of "impulse buying", which is the way I always buy shoes.

I tried it on a Trad and all I got was "Door: The door is locked." Tried it on a Stilt and got "Sorry, diamond Marchant, but you are not authorized to open and close the doors, blinds and windows of this house. If you think you are receiving this message in error, please contact the owner of this parcel and ask them to put you on the list of authorized users." Verified. So happy to learn that if I touch a locked door I will be reminded of my name, I will be told of other things I cannot do, a suggestion will be made that the owner may have intended to let me in but actually forgot about me, and that I may petition the owner to reverse this oversight. 🙂

This is a transparent prim in front of the door that has a script in it. Not part of a Linden Home front door.

It was Microsoft Defender SmartScreen that gave me a popup. Norton disables the antivirus part of Defender but leaves SmartScreen running. Norton and SmartScreen are said to play well together... so the Norton community advises against manually disabling SmartScreen. I have issues with Norton as well and may dump it in a BelliBin.

A viewer popup notified me about the new 6.5.3 release so I downloaded it and started the install... first Windows Defender and then Norton complained that this executable file is suspect, which it likely is not.... but then I don't recall this issue with Firestorm previously and it is not beyond reason to think the Firestorm official download site has been hacked. We are in times of heighten cyber security anxiety. So... I am just gonna wait until somebody gets their certificates straightened out.

This is true, however, I would call it failure to plan for the future. I created the map below in 2010 to show what was connected to the Blake Sea. Back then you could not sail further west than Rodel and could hardly go south at all. Of course, the Lindens could create a protected coastline from Imelza to Carver. Undoubtedly, some current land owners would object but others would rejoice at the windfall of newly minted valuable real estate. There is precedent. When Zindra was created, some rivers sections were built without protected water, for example, in Destonia. One day we were told that the parcels would be reduced to allow for a protected channel. Voila!

The theme is optional, yanno. Missy won't say "You will be assimilated into The Steampunk, resistance is futile!" My dream theme is "Just Ride" and means that you can get around the grid in some sorta vehicle, undistrubed by orbs or banlines or overhangs. The big reveal at "Meet the Lindens" would be Patch saying that it is now possible to ride from Corsica to Jeogeot on protected land/water. Happy to make the nav HUD for THAT!