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Jun 6, 2001, 1:58pm

But this is exactly what AW 3.1 does - interpreting the RWX files since Criterion dropped the support of it :(
Andras

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Jun 7, 2001, 7:48am

[View Quote] Interesting concept. I see problems:
1, All robots which relies on the avatar movement would be useless because robots know nothing about the moving objects.
2, The concept of "hearing range" will be screwed - the server has no knowledge about the moving object.
3, All object collision will be off for the robots.

and probably much more.
Andras

Jul 5, 2001, 5:40pm

[View Quote] The objects behind you never get rendered.
Andras

Jul 7, 2001, 5:17pm

[View Quote] Unicode implementation is in the works as far as I know. I don't know when the public will get it tho.
Andras

Jul 5, 2001, 11:03pm

[View Quote] And you had to tell this 3 lines in a 35 line message? tsk tsk tsk

Jul 6, 2001, 3:47pm

[View Quote] %90 of the internet users are still on a modem 28.8-50.0 K (source : IDG) Disk space is scarce if you have Winblows installed.

> 2) Don't we all have news browsers that can read HTML?

No we don't. Several of us - even we able to read HTML - just refuse it due to MicroSlop's nice bugs in their newsreader.

> 3) Aren't those of us who do not have these things the minority?

No - they are the majority so far. It is easy to neglecting us from a broadband connection (mediaone.net). Interestingly you americans always forget that in other countries we pay for the amount of data downloaded and/or by the minutes. Why send message with inflated HTML when you can communicate the same message with plain text?

>
> 4) Is text on a news server a precious, exhaustible thing?

Yes - it adds up. 36,000 posts at 1 KBytes (text) will use only 70 MBytes (with overhead) but with a 100K HTML and pictures - it will add up to 3-4 GBytes.

> 5) Is the news server a Timex Sinclair?

No it is not but the net still have bandwidth. Suppose there is 500 ppl reading those groups (probably an underestimate but what the heck) - it is 3.5 GBytes data transferred from the server to the net if you use your common sense and post only in text but it is 1.5 Terrabytes of traffic if you are so neglecting and post inflated messages. The funny part is that the messages carries the same INFORMATION either in ASCII or in HTML. Yes - the net is broad but why fill it up with junk?

>
> I am really SICK of nagging CS majors telling me how to use my computer. I
> am 34 years old and I have been waiting all my life for computers to allow
> us to no longer be shackled by stupid arbitrary rules.

I guess you need to live a few more hundreds of years before you actually understand that the universe is not spinning around you. Those rules are not arbitraty - they came from the neccessities.

>
> The internet allows different kinds of people to communicate. Protocol and
> observance of customary behavior has absolutely no place here.

Same is valid for a convention or for a party. Do you piss into the host's laundrybasket just because you refuse to accept protocol or customary behavior?

>
> If someone uses long long long lines, or uses HTML, or talks about something
> you don't personally like...
>
> GROW UP!

I (and several others) did - much longer before you :)

>
> It's just data, and there's more where it came from.

It was just babbling and there is more where it came from :)

Andras

Aug 4, 2001, 6:34am

[View Quote] Use the telephone bot. Someone already wrote it.

Andras

Aug 11, 2001, 2:33am

[View Quote] More technically - it was written in BORLAND C and later translated to MS C :((
Such a bad mistake!!!!

Andras

Aug 11, 2001, 2:35am

[View Quote] No, no, no, you little jerk!
You do it a few more times and your can kiss good by to your internet connection. I promise!
Andras

Aug 11, 2001, 2:39am

[View Quote] I don't know if someone is so ignorant or just want to troll. 1 Megabytes = 8 Megabits + overhead (count 1 bit pro byte is a conservative measure). 56k modems are not allowed to transfer data faster than 51k (FCC regulation) and that is Bits/second!
So how much is in time (in the best case) ???????

176 seconds = almost 3 MINUTES!!!!! damn it!

Andras

Oct 4, 2001, 4:24pm

Do you think is it worth to respond to a computer illiterate person?
I doubt:)
Andras

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Dec 17, 2001, 8:08pm

[View Quote] atcually??????????????????????????
propper???????????????????????????

<snip>

And while we are here - since when do you call a server "surver" ??????????????????

Andras

Jun 11, 2002, 8:00pm

[View Quote] They do - just run them on the backup database :)
Andras

Aug 8, 2002, 8:52pm

This value is provided as a standard "local host" URL in any OS. Some of it uses the "hosts" file to translate it , some has it built in hardcoded.
Andras

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Sep 16, 2002, 5:51pm

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Sep 18, 2002, 8:16am

Last time I get one it was an excess of 8 GBytes!!
Andras


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Oct 13, 2002, 11:31pm

One of the best idea I ever seen in the wishlist!
Andras


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Nov 5, 2002, 6:41am

The "wall glitch" is the straight result of the registry. Even the walls are perfectly lined up, the registry has 5-5 cm smaller sizes reported. This small difference is due to the BI and the rounding problems around far addresses in AW.

Of course it is a bug but slightly different than your interpretation.

Andras


[View Quote] > "lethys" wrote in
> news:3dc6e6b1$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:
>
>
>
>
> The going through walls thing is probably due to bugs in the object
> placement/building code that makes tiny gaps between objects, that are
> easy to go through when you slide along it and constantly check collision
> status. They could do an ugly fix by checking status for a wider area:
> This illustration should make it clearer (I hope, turn raw text/a fixed
> size font on to see it correctly!):
>
> <-------5m--------><-------5m-------->
> *-----------------**-----------------*
> | || |
> |Wall A ||Wall B |
> |Position: ||Position: |
> |2.5m Z ||-2.5m Z |
> | || |
> *-----------------**-----------------*
> ^^
> *tiny* gap
>
> Theoretically there should be no gap between these objects, right? But in
> practice (in AW) there is. You're able to go through it because collision
> seemingly only checks for a 0 (or something like 0.0001) width area on
> the surface:
>
> *-----------------**-----------------*
> | || |
> |Wall A ||Wall B |
> |Position: ||Position: |
> |2.5m Z ||-2.5m Z |
> | || |
> *-----------------**-----------------*
> []
> ^^
> Area checked for collision status. Width: ~0
>
> It could be fixed by increasing it a bit:
>
> *-----------------**-----------------*
> | || |
> |Wall A ||Wall B |
> |Position: ||Position: |
> |2.5m Z ||-2.5m Z |
> | || |
> *-----------------**-----------------*
> [ ]
> <-0.5->
>
> Okay, enough ASCII diagrams, hope it illustrates my idea :-))
>
> KAH

Nov 4, 2002, 2:43pm

Well,,,, if you are doing a natural "Thread tree" look, it will be oldest to newest.

YMMW,
Andras

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Dec 16, 2002, 10:50pm

[View Quote] Option/worlds/features/general/Home Page - copy and paste.

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Dec 26, 2002, 5:23pm

[View Quote] Well - bugs can't be fixed if they are not reported :(

Just a reminder to all - I do NOT use the telegram feature to support any of my programs. My email addy is public, so do my newsgroup:
news://news.andras.net/AW.Utility

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Dec 26, 2002, 5:26pm

[View Quote] Unfortunately this "statistic" would cause a big uproar since it is a breach of privacy. I am not recommending to do that.
OTOH to have an option for the beta group to provide their settings/hardware description should be a must IMHO.

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Dec 27, 2002, 4:22pm

[View Quote] The main reason of the code size decrease is the reintroduced dll-s :)

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Jan 1, 2003, 5:09pm

Since he took over AW's ng - he has no time to check his own posts! Be gentle to the busy NG god :)
Andras

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Feb 2, 2003, 2:25pm

[View Quote] How interesting :) I was cursing too for the same reason!


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Feb 20, 2003, 12:50pm

[View Quote] Killfile is your friend :)


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Feb 24, 2003, 9:33am

[View Quote] Good catch!! Is it your lucky day???????

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Feb 27, 2003, 2:20pm

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Andras
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Apr 22, 2004, 5:54pm

[View Quote] > 4/11/2004.....

3/30/2003 - really ancient one :)


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Apr 9, 2003, 2:40am

[View Quote] http://www.andras.net/tools.html#tgreader

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