The Lag Myths

After reading this, I am NEVER again going to let someone get away with using that as commentary to one of my notes!

Heh! That bit made me stop and think My first thought was signs layed on the floor, but then I realised that the author must mean the normal vertical orietation, but on or near the floor level rather than on the ceiling (where some of mine are).


On another note:
I have a dislike of threads that are started with just a URL in the post. The target pages are no doubt interesting, but I would always like to read at least a little bit of what's at the other end - a bit more than what's in the thread's title - before I go to the lengths of opening a new tab, and copying and pasting the URL into it. This thread went to the other extreme and quoted the whole article. I prefer it this way than the bare minimum URL, although a URL with a brief synopsis of what's at the other end would do. However, having the whole article posted here saves the need for that copy/paste business. Well done, OP!

I realsed that eventually, but not until after I'd given up. As a rule of thumb, in a shop I find displays up to about 5m above the floor easy to see. Higher than that and I get the feeling that it just ain't worth the effort.

Not being a shopper, I wouldn't know. All the detailed signs in my store are at eye level or below. The ones on the ceiling are intended to be viewed from a distance - big words to indicate sections of the store. They are easily seen and read from a distance, so they're fine.

Apparently it is not as long if it is on another website with a link to it from here, or more interesting if it is elsewhere, or something.

Rock

Scripts compiled in mono. We've heard all the LL hype about how they run more efficiently, especially if we're heavily involved in the scripting circles. However there's an issue Linden Lab has done a marvelous job of covering up, related to mono.

Scripts that travel with avatars. Whether it's a resize script in their hair, ripscript on a skirt so they can choose to allow people to remove it for them, color-changing scripts on shoes, huds, etc.

Those which are compiled in the old LSL format are mostly alright. Those which have been compiled in mono, however, cause an extremely high amount of overhead on the sim upon the arrival of an avatar. Often so much so that everything stops entirely. Forget time dilation of 0.4, 0.3, 0.1, or whatever, we're talking more like 0.0 time dilation.

Mono takes an amazing amount of overhead to initialize when a mono-compiled script arrives on the scene. This is acceptable in the case of prims that aren't going anywhere, but when those scripts are in attachments on avatars? Major major problem.

I for one, as a scripter, believe it should be made extremely imperative and ensure that all scripters understand the problems inherent in compiling scripts that travel with avatars in mono, and get them to accept one very simple tenant: do not do it. Do not do it. Do not do it.

I'm quite simple so can I be your tenant? I take it it's free?

lol OOPS. That should have read tenet, shouldn't it? (Where's Pep when needed?)