What I know:
1. It's in Linden Lab's favor to get more content on its server.
2. I believe each resident should be given a certain amount of server space. (which has little to do with size of inventory.) Especially with HTML coming, it could streamline showing web content.
3. The L$ payment is a nice economic sink for Linden Lab. If it's removed another sink will have to occur.
4. Logically, it would be more straightforward to allocate space for users according to tier, and pay for uploads above and beyond that.
5. Uploads should be scaled by size, not by quantity. A 64x64 picture is going to take a lot less bandwidth and server space than a 10 second wav file.
6. Scaling the prices by (5) would encourage people to be more efficient with their uploads, and consequently, a less laggy overall world.
7. Once we get HTML content, we really need a way to upload pictures and not have them be altered by JPEG2000 compression, otherwise web pages will be a mess to create in SL.
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Hiro Pendragon
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Yumi Murakami
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03-20-2006 08:58
It does, but many people simply aren't educated in why using 1024x1024 textures on a 1 meter by 1 meter prim is a bad idea. As we've seen over and over again, unless you hit people in the pocketbook, they often won't have the impetus to learn to make things as efficient and lag-free as is possible.  Sure, but what I'm saying is, why shouldn't SL automatically downsample the texture if it can detect that its own scaling system can recreate the original adequately? |
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Moopf Murray
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03-20-2006 09:04
7. Once we get HTML content, we really need a way to upload pictures and not have them be altered by JPEG2000 compression, otherwise web pages will be a mess to create in SL. I guess I'm missing something here but won't HTML on a prim simply allow you to give a URL to a prim to show the web page and interact with it? You seem to be suggesting that we'll be able to create HTML from within SL - is that happening? _____________________
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FlipperPA Peregrine
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03-20-2006 09:42
Sure, but what I'm saying is, why shouldn't SL automatically downsample the texture if it can detect that its own scaling system can recreate the original adequately? Right now, it doesn't; until they disabled the texture tool, you could see that SL was sending a full 1024x1024 graphic even on the tiniest of prims. They're only created one texture on the server, not downgrading to each size. Regards, -Flip _____________________
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Argent Stonecutter
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03-20-2006 09:44
Sure, but what I'm saying is, why shouldn't SL automatically downsample the texture if it can detect that its own scaling system can recreate the original adequately? |
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StoneSelf Karuna
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03-20-2006 09:49
an inappropriate form of charge for uploading content. _____________________
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