Re: [opensource-dev] A fond farewell

2011-03-04 Thread Joel Foner
I will miss the man who could rearrange the universe by snapping his fingers :) You have made a big contribution in ways that many do not know. Great work and thanks for everything. Best of luck and safe travels, Joel On Mar 4, 2011 2:18 PM, "Kent Quirk (Q Linden)" wrote: > In case you hadn't a

Re: [opensource-dev] Pre-processing chat input (was Re: Review Request: STORM-829 Viewer 2 does not parse /me in object Instant Messages

2011-01-12 Thread Joel Foner
Skype still supports /me... Many of the folks I know use /me regularly, for what it's worth. Skype displays the difference much more obviously, placing the text centered with different styling than normal chat with /me, so it has more emphasis than in sl visually. Joel On Jan 12, 2011 5:21 PM, "R

Re: [opensource-dev] does anyone else think this would be a good thing?

2010-11-27 Thread Joel Foner
Folks who want to see sign language for accessibility would be all over that :) Joel On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Ricky wrote: > If we were to go to that level, then it'd be better (and more PC) to > simply add bones to the fingers of the hands. That way animators > could do whatever they

[opensource-dev] User story: Searchable contacts and inventory notes

2010-10-23 Thread Joel Foner
As a resident, I would like to be able to search contacts based on contents of contact notes, picks or content of 1st/2nd life tab text. In a related (maybe another story but connected) way, I would like to be able to record notes about inventory items, and search them in the same way. Joel __

Re: [opensource-dev] User Story: Improved Cache

2010-09-16 Thread Joel Foner
I propose a slight modification... As a user, I want to be able to choose some number of places that load more quickly, and am willing to trade some disk space to make this happen. This list of places may, or may not, be based on visit frequency, favorites or personal selection. (I may want a part

Re: [opensource-dev] Severe water flicker in recent development build

2010-09-12 Thread Joel Foner
> > One possibility is if the Lindens set up an island, with an agent limit > of *1*. Region forces AV to face a particular direction. Avatar drops > in, and waits 5 mins. During that time, the system records frame rates, > CPU, and vid card. AV reports graphics settings (unless that can be > p

Re: [opensource-dev] Severe water flicker in recent development build

2010-09-12 Thread Joel Foner
Another thought to toss in is that Second Life is fairly CPU dependent for performance too. Just last night, I upgraded a machine here from an AMD Athlon 8650 2.6 GHz triple core processor to an AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz quad core. This system has an NVidia 9800GT-based card in it, and that stay

Re: [opensource-dev] Severe water flicker in recent development build

2010-09-12 Thread Joel Foner
I hope... ??? ... that someone doing rendering dev has a typical netbook class computer to try things on, and actually does it and checks performance variations from build to build on a few classes of hardware... That would point the performance issues out quite directly, and cost a mere US $350 ea

Re: [opensource-dev] This is how Linden Lab treats it's customers...

2010-08-28 Thread Joel Foner
Quick note... if the $100 a month, if this is rent, is not being paid to Linden Lab if you're renting. It's paid to another avatar... different picture... It seems to me the slap in the face is a landlord who does this to a large number of tenants without notice, actually. Joel (also going back to

Re: [opensource-dev] This is how Linden Lab treats it's customers...

2010-08-28 Thread Joel Foner
> > > After being a paying customer for more than a year, renting a homestead, > and thus paying Linden Lab ~ USD$ 1000 or so ... they just take the sim > offline, with no opening to even discuss the matter. > > Why? Because of something I did? No. The reason is that Linden > Lab isn't interested i

Re: [opensource-dev] separation between login id and publicly visible id(s) (was: display names = the end of 1.x viewers?)

2010-08-23 Thread Joel Foner
> > As Josh and others have said, one of the things we'd need is a unique > secret account identifier. Unfortunately the only existing account datum > which might work here is email address, and that's not unique, though we're > starting to think that it really should be > Just a quick note... ema

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Viewer Development Announcement

2010-08-16 Thread Joel Foner
In a previous email I said: "The ability to do so is not new technology" To clarify, I am *not* suggesting that some software program be run to provide text transcription, as that is not totally solved in a speaker independent way. Using actual people, however, to provide real-time and after the f

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Viewer Development Announcement

2010-08-16 Thread Joel Foner
Providing text transcription of voice speakers for the disabled, as well as those who for various reasons cannot enable voice at the time, and for capture of a text searchable archive of the whole event, is a solved problem. Totally solved. It needs no figuring out or experimentation. Real-time vo

Re: [opensource-dev] Where has "Spare time" gone in 2.0 ?

2010-04-25 Thread Joel Foner
45 FPS is the target frame rate for the simulator, regardless of how many regions the hardware is supporting. At 45 FPS time runs at "full speed." Time dilation is calculated by determining how much slower than 45 FPS the simulator is running. In other words at a frame time of double normal, 45 mS

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVPTopics to a different mailing list

2010-04-15 Thread Joel Foner
I wonder if anyone has an easy way to calculate the actual signal (os-dev posts) to noise (legal posts) ratio on this list over, let's say the last 30 days. It's getting hard to recall when the last actual os-dev discussion happened. Maybe I'm just missing it. Back to my regularly scheduled progra

Re: [opensource-dev] opensource-dev Digest, Vol 3, Issue 40

2010-04-10 Thread Joel Foner
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Daniel wrote: > The very fact that reasonably intelligent people here on this list, > which are part of the community the TPV is aimed at, cannot agree what > it means, is cause to rewrite it for more clarity. > > Carlo Wood wrote: > > You know, this would actual

Re: [opensource-dev] Stuff from my Lunch Bag

2010-04-10 Thread Joel Foner
Sometimes it's useful to take a large parallel jump as a way of exploring an issue. This one just hit me as a direct parallel (riffing on Gareth's idea below): Is it possible to hold a web browser manufacturer responsible as a tool to breach security and steal credit card numbers, perform denial of

Re: [opensource-dev] Brown-bag meeting to continue dialog on TVPV

2010-04-09 Thread Joel Foner
All of these are recordable, actually, and there is always the option of a voice conference call that is recorded. The technology really shouldn't be a limiting factor in having a discussion on any of these platforms if creating a record is a primary concern. (Including Second Life with video, voic

Re: [opensource-dev] So you don't like the new TOS and wanna move to the OS grid?

2010-04-04 Thread Joel Foner
This could be a not so bright question, but shouldn't all those patches to fix up OpenSim bugs be ending up back in the trunk and end up with the default downloads working better? Joel On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Gareth Nelson wrote: > The thing with OSGrid is that it was meant from the star

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-26 Thread Joel Foner
This is a pretty generic question, but I hope it will be helpful. Under what conditions might it be possible to do a fairly quick to release version and then iterate the feature behavior towards something more sophisticated, without breaking things? Best regards, Joel On 3/26/10, Carlo Wood wr

Re: [opensource-dev] oh give me a break

2010-03-15 Thread Joel Foner
...and then there's the pesky little truth that even if the viewer were completely closed source, unless the basic architecture of personal computer graphics processing across the industry is changed, and all of the current personal computer hardware is retired, it will be possible to rip content a

[opensource-dev] Script memory limit vs server CPU utilization as a key metric

2010-03-09 Thread Joel Foner
Many apologies if this has been discussed at length in a place that I've missed... I'm a bit baffled by the continuing strong focus on memory utilization of scripts rather than CPU load on the host servers. If (maybe I'm missing an important issue here) the issue is to avoid a resident or scripted