On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Lear Cale <lear.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Which is what we mean by "cost". Price is what you are asked to pay. > Cost is what you actually pay.
When discussing performance, "cost" would refer to what actually impacts performance, as in "an expensive calculation". Here the script memory quota is what you will be charged for (price) in exchange the right to potentially cause a real performance cost to the server (and thus to Linden Research). Since Linden Research is unable to predetermine the actual cost of running your scripts, you are charged for what you might possibly do, because stopping you when you "do too much" would be insanely disruptive. More so than what's proposed, anyway. The price of the "all you can eat" meal when "all you CAN eat" is based on your land ownership...I see a future in which hordes of bot avatars are created to use their (free) script memory quotas to run LSL servers, something like getting "free" prims by using a temp rezzer. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
