a rare sighting
SL Volunteer Island SW 247,253,35
This is a rare-ity. in my 2+yrs in sl, first time i've seen governor linden. enjoy.
Babbler Japanese/Chinese update
Thanks for your patience. Japanese and Chinese are now working properly. 1000 Apologies for the delay. Once I narrowed down the problem, it was stupidly simple. doh. (naturally the translation might still not make sense, but it won't be babbler mangling the reply). No update is needed on your end.
This picture is taken on PacRim on the teen grid, so don't bother following the slurl to this spot - won't work. I'm out here installing th babbler for them to use for their project, which involves japanese / na student mixing. You can read more on their site.
An Open Comment on an Open Letter
There’s this open letter to LL making the rounds.
I share the sentiments - just the other day i wanted to smash my keyboard due to the frustration [scroll down a few posts] - LL needs to be more transparent with details of what’s going on, and what’s being done to fix it.
I disagree with a lot of the implications of the letter though: Does anyone really think LL isn’t aware or working on those issues?
Most people in-world have never experienced ghosting. When I joined, it was an ongoing problem. For a good while. Eventually, it got resolved.
I think all of the problems in that letter will go the way of ghosting.
It totally blows that things like friends & notices have busted. Building is an insanely frustrating experience at times. We know though these aren’t permanent features but temporary problems.
And here’s the But™.
But™ I knew getting into SL, and trying to develop there, that it was going to be like this. This is the risk of being tied to this ship.
I don’t get where people had any expectations of it not being like that. Things were going to change. New things come, some things break. I’ve been bit by change in SL before, i expect to be bit by them again.
This is the cost of early adoption - and that’s what this is - make no mistake. The letter implies that phase is over, but i think that’s just because of the echo chamber effect. A buncha oldbies talking to each other. No one knows what platform will become the standard for the sort of experience SL is now uniquely providing. Maybe it will be SL, maybe not.
At the moment, SL is suffering from what some are calling a bubble. Seems more like fear to me. No one wants to miss the boat, the way a lot of companies did when the ‘net came around, while others are having dreams of riches generated by the gross misperception that money is just growing on trees on the grid.
Obviously, I have no special insight into what goes on inside LL. It seems though a general consensus in software development that just throwing more people at a problem doesn’t necessarily fix it any faster, and can often do the opposite. Maybe they need more expertise, but its an open secret that LL has recruiting issues. And the whole she-bag it certainly isn’t made easier by operating on a moving patient.
The simple fact is there’s nothing like SL at the moment, and that shit breaking is just the cost of business. Otherwise, you can always go over There. I hear Laguna Beach is nice this time of year.
[update] cory’s blog post.
attachment issues
I’ve been getting reports of people having trouble attaching babbler. I haven’t changed anything, so the problem is really SL. I would aplogize, but it’s nothing i’ve done :) When you can’t attach a babbler, please file a bug report. It’s under the tools menu.
[update] relogging resolves the issue.
And the hunt is on!
One of my evil cousins stole the personal weather system, and Katrina! The hunt is on!
I can see my shadow!
So winter should be over soon! Looking for something to do tonight? we're having a cool launch party for AW [NOW!]. There's gonna be a live music show featuring Komuso, and tons of neat give aways. (you can see me wearing one now.)
The Bug Is Better
I love this glitch, where a land texture gets replaced by the realtime image on screen. Now it's happening on my av, and i really like it.
tip: sound loop on/off
This one via Adenoraque Qin. Say you have a 15 second sound loop, and you want the user to be able to toggle sound on and off. If you just use llStopSound(), the loop will keep playing, till it finishes.
Example: Clip is 5 seconds in when user pushes stop button - sound will still play the full 15 second clip. Instead, when the user hits the stop button, call the same sound with volume of 0: llPlaySound(”foo”, 0); then llStopSound();
You may have noticed a bandwidth exceeded msg last night. apologies to anyone trying to use the site or any of my services. end of month combined with spike in traffic from ite, mixed in with babbler traffic spike. :) resolved. thanks mr. f.
Kelly Launch
Hey. Just at the Kelly Services Launch. Looking for something to do this Sat afternoon? Drop by. Some live music going on throughout the day, and some cool builds and giveaways. I'm particulaly fond of the bug sprayer. Full details at Kelly Services SL.
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