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Crim Mip

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  1. The joke was it actually worked. Certainly not glitch free, but it did work. Was more a concept build then. I suspect it would be a lot more viable now.
  2. I imagine not having to worry about maintaining the servers will allow you to spend more time making the systems even better.
  3. I don't see this as relevant to the acquisition of Casper. You may not remember what happened when HippoVend and HippoRent (or whatever it was called) just went offline one day with no notice. Granted, by then a lot of people had moved to Casper already, but there were a sizable number who didn't. It was a mess. There were sellers who simply went out of business because of that. Landlords lost who knows how many thousands because all records of rent paid and rent due went away. Making sure that doesn't happen again, even if that were all that it was for, would make this a good situation. Casper already had some hooks into the MP. There are things it may be able to do that will make it even better.
  4. Well the art that was sampled and used as a training set was certainly made by humans. So were the components in the image. It's a nice enough image, but I wouldn't call it art. It can't hold a copyright either. As for using it in SL? Why not?
  5. It's undeniable that the server reliability of Casper has gotten progressively worse the last couple years. This has been a major headache for residents, but I assume for LL as well. Given that they are by far the most used vendor and rental systems in SL, it can only be a good thing having the system on more reliable servers. This brings up what probably is a more important reason for LL buying them out. The amount of financial data that could be inferred from the transaction information from Casper is statistically very significant. LL might well have wanted to move that under their control. This is totally legitimate. That does bring up something. If LL owns Casper, what happens with the other rental and vendor systems? If LL started giving away the systems for free, that would kill the market (and preclude having to make Casper the only officially allowed systems). If they charge, they are competing against the others but with a major insider advantage in adding features and hooks into SL.
  6. The bottom line is leave Vsync enabled if you're using a 60Hz refresh display or your cpu/gpu aren't relatively modern. If you have a high refresh rate monitor and your hardware (and cooling solution) are up to it, try turning it off. It's not going to break anything, but it will make your system work harder. Whether it makes a real world noticeable difference is up to you to decide. A steady 60Hz refresh is pretty good given SL isn't and FPS game and the input precision isn't really that good.
  7. One of the biggest mistakes builders of new clubs make is too large a dance floor. You do that and even if you have say 10-15 regulars (pretty good numbers for a new club) the place will feel empty. People will stop coming. Secondly dance poles. Unless you are running a strip club (which means hiring dancers who actually know how to put on a show as well as a DJ that knows how to MC a show, don't. What usually happens is bottom feeders who just want some free lindens will camp on them for tips with no interaction offered at all. It also takes away from the tips the DJ should be getting. You don't need hosts until the club gets so many people the DJ and you, the owner can't greet guests. This means you don't need tip jars for hosts. Finally, you aren't going to make money. If you even end up breaking even you'll be doing well. Any actually good DJ is going to want a guaranteed amount per show to bother with a new club. I ask for 2000 offset by any tips. I can do that because I make more than that at my existing gigs and see no reason to give my time for less.
  8. Most new clubs last under 2 months. They are usually the same. Too large for the number they will reasonably attract. Can't choose between dance or strip club. Those both need different builds and putting in dance poles in a dance club is almost a sure sign it won't be around long. Clubs don't make their owner's money. If you aren't prepared to operate at a loss, don't even bother. Quality DJs will ask for a minimum payment to spin. Most of us are well over the opening night where it's the owner, the host (a friend of theirs), and a couple obvious friends of theirs. I've been burned enough times that I demand 2k offset by tips to even show up. I've only been taken up on that offer once and the club was gone the next month.
  9. It did at one time. If it's been changed then great. It wasn't a no-fly. I was in an aircraft and hit a security orb. It's annoying enough when those are set to a short time if not 0, but then to end up on the ban list? No, I'm not begging anybody to be removed from it and I'm perfectly happy to call out vendors and venues using it. THis is the last I'll say on PooDoo.
  10. You get your premium account (pay for a year at once as it's a much better deal). Then you get a 1024 land allowance. You can either buy that much land on the mainland without paying tier to build a home or use it to get a Linden home. Those come on 512 or 1024 meter plots. You put in for the type of home you want and the system assigns one if available. You also get many more group slots, a much higher message cap, the ability to get into full sims sometimes, and 300L stipend back per week. If you count that, an annual premium membership costs around $35.
  11. 10 billion to invest and they won't invest some millions doing the one thing that would make them a threat to SL. That would be subsidizing content creators to make items until the user base got big enough to pay them enough to not need it. And by subsidize, I mean pay them well, better even than they do in SL. Sure, it might take a few years, but once it got rolling, they'd be pretty much unstoppable. Oh yeah, and they need to deal with adult activities.
  12. There are places that have the land group set to open join which usually means you can set home at them. Alternatively, find a group to start hanging out with. If you aren't a jerk, it shouldn't be hard to find a friend to let you couch surf.
  13. What? That I shouldn't have to beg to be taken off a list that was abusive to put people on in the first place? If you get nailed by one of their orbs (no matter how short a time it's set for), then you're banned at all places that have VooDoo, Can't use their venue vote system (a downside to venue owners), or use their possibly against ToS sploders at said venues. It was inadvertently flying over a parcel with one of the orbs set to 0 seconds that got me on the list in the first place. I don't think venue owners who use Voodoo crap even know how easy it is to get on the list. There's no reason anyone should have to go to a sim (boosting it's traffic) to get a stupid code to use on a website (that no doubt records your IP address) to get off the list. There shouldn't be a master list at all.
  14. The Voodoo system is abusive and so is the jerk who runs it. It should be removed from SL just like Redzone was. I've been on the Voodoo ban list for a long time (likely permanent) because I told the owner there was no way I was kissing his ass to be unbanned from a system that shouldn't be allowed on the grid in the first place. I've gotten people to stop using their products after letting them know the ugly side of doing so. Those who insist on keeping them, I simply don't associate with.
  15. You should be able to enter a credit or debit card to use to pay for stuff. Unless you do process credits, there's really no need to use PayPal.
  16. For certain things, mainland is great. There are some mainland areas that are very nice. It does mean you take what you get as far as neighbors go. Owning mainland means you own it and a landlord can't disappear and screw you over. This applies unless you have the means to own a full estate sim in which case that is better.
  17. If I had a second citizenship in any other developed country, I'd be considering packing up, moving, and turning in my US passport. I don't and barring something like a lotto win so I could buy said citizenship, I'm pretty much stuck here.
  18. If you are on the quarterly plan, you may need to call phone support to downgrade. It's a known bug on the website.
  19. From what Patch Linden said, the fee for mesh uploads uses an entirely different system since it normally computes cost based on polygon count at the time of uploading, it's not a set fee. They have to update that to have multiple price tiers and be able to check who is at what tier. They are also in the middle of another change to the mesh upload system so I imagine they want to make one change at a time and test to make sure nothing breaks. It wouldn't surprise me if they raise the prices for uploads for free accounts at some point either.
  20. If you were running an actual business in SL and that $3000 was solely for that business, then yes you could write it off against profits. You'd best have good documentation though. Otherwise, no, it doesn't matter what you paid in. You owe taxes on that $1000
  21. If it's an item I'd otherwise buy if it were mod, I do sent a polite notecard or IM (whichever the seller prefers) asking if they'd consider selling it to me mod. A number of times the answer has been yes or "The MP listing is out of date, it is mod." In a couple they explained they didn't sell them mod because making any real changes would break them. One of those still did when I explained the only reason I wanted it mod was to put the item in a scene rezzer which required a script be added to it. A few "Sorry no" which then I have to decide whether to buy. No responses are worse than a no and usually mean I won't buy. Then there were the two special people. One thought I was trying to copybot their item, the other acted like I'd insulted their artistic vision. I verbally punted them to the curb, blocked them, and noted their store name so I'd never purchase from them ever.
  22. I don't quite understand why the extra $50 and then giving an extra $74 back in L$ in stipend over the year. Like they could have made it $199, kept the stipend the same, and made more actual profit while probably having more people seriously considering it. The free uploads would then be the real value added feature.
  23. Under most circumstances I'd likely say no. I've made such mistakes before and chalk them up to experience.
  24. Doubling everything is about what I expected. New Linden homes to use the higher land allowance, also expected. None of those things are things I really need currently. Free uploads of textures, sounds, animations, and eventually mesh, might make this a big win for some larger output content creators. I'm sure that's why it'll be $250/year instead of $200. Consider it a worthwhile perk value wise if you do more than 1200 uploads a year. Speaking of value, if you can't afford a year at a time, don't even consider Premium Plus. If you pay the $30 (I'm not playing the 29.95 game) per month, that's $360 for the year. Pay for a year and after the stipend your actual cost would be around $112 for the year. Figuring the cost of a regular Premium account the same way, it comes to around $35. For me, there's nothing compelling enough in this package to be worth over 3X the cost of my current premium account. I'm sure there are some who will jump at it though.
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