[Viewer 2.3 Launches with Display Names]

What's a Flog ? :-)

That's what comes out if you try to use a blog software (this Jive thingy LL is using) as a forum! Forums + Blogs = Flogs

[Viewer 2.3 Launches with Display Names]

Beside that Twitter is for people thinking they are important and try to let everybody know , it doesn't makeany sense to ask for comments being made somewhere else. It's the same as if my ISP asks me to rate his product in the daily press.

[Viewer 2.3 Launches with Display Names]

Why the heck should one twitter feedback if there is a comment feature and the flogs on the SL website?

[Help Us Test the SL Web Viewer Beta]

Really? I'd better log out then now because I'm not in the US and could login!

But it looks really awesome! Can't say how it will perform on a standard office PC, but on an Intel Core i5 750 with 8 GB Ram, Geforce GTX 260 and Windows 7 64bit it runs really smooth under IE8 - couldn't qualify with Firefox 3.6. If you now replace the Viewer 2 UI with a more usable one, this would finally allow people to visit SL even when not at home!

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Thank you for your comments. To answer your questions:

ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4250 Graphics 1405MB total graphics memory

Just for info: That amount of graphics memory is a combined value of the few memory installed with the graphics chip itself AND your computer's memory - if the graphics chip comes with own memory at all. Those mobile versions often use conventional memory to become cheaper and/or a smaller package size. It should be quite obvious that this is giving a slower performance than using dedicated graphics memory.

Also wanted to add that Lance is not completely wrong. If your network interface gets bombed with data packets due to a too high bandwidth, it leads to congestion and heavy CPU load if your computer cannot process those packets faster than they arrive, effectively creating a subjective slowdown aka lag!

[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

Of course there has been no poll or it would have been ended in a devastating result as for the viewer 2 poll! But hey, did that change anything? But you only need to read the posts to get a feeling for what the people are thinking. And hey, I can't see where your propageted majority pro display names are either! Where are the figures for your assumption again?

[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

... and users are going to mistake you for "John Doe.Facebookhero75"! how?

OMG! You don't want to understand, right? But if you like, I will call you "Ajax Renfort.ajax.renfort" inworld then! Hope you like it!

[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

We can't change it. What do the majority of users think about Display Names? Is there a survey somewhere? If a minority of users don't like it should the majority then cater to the minorities views?

You have actually read the all posts and comments

[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

No I can't. But I'm going to accept change. Using the format DisplayName.UniqueName, it's pretty hard to argue your identity will be compromised.

Hello then, "John Doe.facebookhero75"! Feel free to call me "Ansariel Hiller.ansariel.hiller"! Basically this is so hilarious it actually can't be true!

[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

a simple notification that the name is already in use by another avatar could solve it

In another Jack Linden's blog (Display Names: Bringing Greater Self-Expression to Second Life) it was said that they can't do it because, as "Display Names also supports European, Asian, and other Unicode characters", it's not possible to the System to check them.

LOL! They are able to store it but not to check it! Cheapest excuse ever!

[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

The format is DisplayName.UniqueName. How will they be confused. All I'm saying is it's here, we probably can't change it, so download viewer 2.3 and give it a try instead of just crying wolf. Then you can make a more informed argument about display name.

I already gave it a try and still I say it tops all of LL's greatest misses! And you actually don't even get the point what we are talking about! We are talking on a completely different level than how display names are displayed in the viewer!

[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

In all fairness, lots people in RL have the same name i.e. John Smith.  I have used viewer 2.3. You can't hide behind a display name, your unique name is still very obvious

It's not about John Smith but about refusing to use a system where:

• In worst case you have to remember new display names on weekly basis or also have to remember the username to even know at all who is who
• People can try impersonate you - yeah, as if everybody will know the difference between display name and username...
• I am forced to enable the unwanted feature to even have a chance to get notice if somebody is pretending to greif under my name

And the most blatant ignorant word ever said about this feature that is changing the complete identity system upside down can be found in the Display names FAQ:

Can I prevent other Residents from using my display name?

No, display names are not meant to be unique identifiers. Instead, if  you notice that others are using a similar display name, feel free to  change your own name.

Why the hell should I be the one and change me name if somebody comes around and steals my previously unique name I have been using for almost 4 years now? And what makes Linden so unique that they can protect their name but residents may not?

[Viewer 2.3 Beta Available Today With Display Names and More]

So, it is very clear that LL does *not* listen to those who *pay* their wages. Display names is *not* what the people who were unhappy with the static name system asked for. They wanted the ability to change their "real" last name to have the same one as a partner, or after finding out that their first minute idea of "XxXChick ABC" ist not what they want to run around with for the rest of their Second Life.

Exactly that! The rest is glorious crap nobody ever wanted - okay, maybe those people that also enter their bank account details in reply to phishing mails because can't or don't want to see the dangers!

BTW: Will it be a bannable offense if somebody uses my username as display name? If yes, better hire new people for the G-team!

EDIT: Just read the most current FAQ on display names and it's getting worse the more LL works on it! Guys, get prepared to get called by your username by me as I won't call you by your displayname! If you chose "ImDaPimp", well, bad luck for you! I will call you "ImDaPimp" even if you changed your name to "John Smith"!

LL, if you really think I now start learning one's displayname every week from scratch in worst case or try to find out why "John Smith" suddenly is missing in my friendlist but now I have a "John Doe" in it, you must be nuts!

[Viewer 2.2 Available Today!]

Okay, now I can undock the floaters from the stupid sidebar, but then I can only minimize them because there is no close button. So I am forced to redock them again in the sidebar. Please make the floaters behave like in 1.23 so I can get rid of the sidebar completely because it's crap! Even Microsoft dumped their sidebar-thingy again. Please make it go away! Thank you!

[Viewer 2.2 Beta has Arrived!]

Let's face it: The viewer 2 debacle is solely based upon upon LL. If they want to create a new UI - okay, fine. But they did a fundamental flaw by ignoring their current user base and not providing a old-style 1.23 UI. This itself wouldn't be a big issue if LL would have done their homework and created a viewer architecture that allows simple replacement of the UI. But in contrast they (or the poor guys in eastern Europe where the development was outsourced to) managed it to hardwire UI with underlying core functions thus making it impossible to easily exchange UI. Feel free to speculate whether this was done by intend to save development costs or by chance because those poor guys haven't heard of design guides and patterns. If it was the former then it really seems to have paid off now LL has to revamp large parts to give users what they want: a 1.23 style UI. This could have been far easier and cheaper if LL had done what they always pretend to do: Listen to the residents.

BTW: Why does this remind me somehow of old 1.23 viewer code where for instance the current L$ balance for display in floaters is retrieved from the statusbar instead of directly from the servers? If they continued this design in viewer 2 - what they obviously did - well, then I need some more desks to bite on...

[Viewer 2.2 Beta has Arrived!]

* "Inventory" Button added to bottom bar

Wow! What an invention! V1 viewers had that by default and not after half a year - remember?

[Viewer 2.2 Beta has Arrived!]

Now get rid of the sidebar completely, cramp the IM windows into the local chat window again and get rid of the annyoing popup crap, bring back the dial menu and then it starts to make sense TPVs are migrating over to viewer 2 codebase and try to get rid of the remaining botched UI.

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But not to forget the even fastest method to do things: Simply install a 1.23 based viewer!