I think that was well put Lear :-)
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Lear Cale <[email protected]> wrote: >> If the Lindens were reasonable and ACTUALLY went into a >> discussion, open to technical arguments and reasoning, then >> we could have really talked about this in a mature and >> professional way; > > > They are, and they did, and this discussion began months ago. Sorry you > missed most of it. > > This is a case where LL is being quite reasonable, and moving forward in a > cautious sensible way. So far most the "better" proposals have been > hopelessly complicated and with little technical merit. > Technically sensible ideas have been listened to and responded to. > > We need to applaud them for their approach this time. Yes, it's going to > drive a lot of people crazy, but the problem is significant and needs to be > addressed. The biggest criticism we could level at them is that they didn't > do it earlier -- but the really serious memory issues didn't appear so much > with LSO (for reasons I think Argent understands, but escape me). > > The users' perspective is certainly not being igored -- especially the user > who can't even use their home sim because it's thrashing, with frame rates > below 1 FPS, because of extreme overusage of script memory. The problem > here is "the tragedy of the commons". Whenever there's a communal resource > that everyone can use freely, some use far more than their "fair share" and > use it up for the rest. In this case, nobody even knew what a "fair share" > was, before we started hitting these problems and LL started monitoring it. > We're still in the learning stage, btw. But it's clear that script memory > limits are necessary. You can argue against that all you want, but it will > be in vain -- that decision has been made. What remains to work out are a > number of details. > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
