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Apr 13, 2001, 9:07pm

I think privileges should work the other way around... YOU allow someone to use your rights (like, a rights list for who you want to
be able to use your rights) and then there's no password or privilege stealth involved...

You would just put them in your "privilege list" and when they want to use it, they go to the privilege menu and type in your name
(no password needed)... the browser checks if you have given them this right, and if it's the case they can use it.

Anyway it's just a thought, the way it works isn't going to change now... I think this way would have made more sense...

Fox Mc Cloud

Apr 13, 2001, 10:34pm

Because changing an object = (from the server's point of view) deleting one and adding the modified one (which i find quite strange,
but that's the way it works.)
So if you don't allow anyone to delete your builds, they can only build with your citnum, and not change anything you've done...
which would maybe suit you, but would be annoying in many cases.

And because they didn't think about it, too. :oP
Just don't give your privilege pass to people you don't totally trust...

Fox Mc Cloud

"m a r c u s" <none at sfsdfsd.come> a écrit dans le message news: 3ad7973b$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Yes, I like that idea. If the name weren't on list also, the person with
> the list could get a request that a person is requesting to build with them.
> This is kind of like an ICQ check to see if you want them to be on your
> list.
>
> My main concern is to disable the deletion rights. I want people to build
> with me, and I would post my password so anyone can build even without me
> knowing. I personally don't care what people add to my spot. I just don't
> want them to delete what I or others put up.
>
> Maybe an opposite list would be good. The list could block certain people by
> account number. Then if you don't want someone to build, they will have to
> buy another account lol
>
> So far, no one has come to me that has destroyed anything thank god. Just
> wonder why AW wants to allow others to destroy your builds. Seems like that
> would have been the first thing on the list to avoid.
>
>
>
>
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Apr 19, 2001, 1:52am

Those 2 limitations are (probably) totally unrelated...
the worlds list size was limited because of a limit on the total size of the message to send, while the contact list was limited
because somewhere in his code Roland just put a line saying "if there are more than 100 contacts, just ignore the rest"... So the
2nd one was done on purpose, while the 1st one was a limitation of the method used to transmit the worlds list...

Fox Mc Cloud

"young phalpha" <yp at myrthco.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3ada70d0$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> The newest 3.1 beta (not available to public yet) allows more than 750
> worlds, by using a more than one packet. Well, shouldn't the same happen to
> contacts lists in 3.2? Just a thought..
>
> - YP

Oct 18, 2001, 7:17pm

"lanezeri" <Lanezeri at stuff-x.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3bcf388c$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Comments below..
>
> Would cause lag and would also be a thing that dealt with the face texture..
> not the AW program.. (I think)
>
LOL

>
> And when someone forgets to make it stop the lag gets so unbarable your
> computer crashes..
LOL ... hahaha what a sense of humor lanezeri... wait, were you serious? :P
I just can't help laughing when someone who calls himself a 'lead programmer' wrties things like this :)
Seriously, I don't want to be mean, but you obviously don't know what you're talking about... (i'm talking about the 'lag' parts)

Anyway I don't want to start a flame war, just think about what you write next time.

sentack, your ideas seem valuable, but unfortunately we all know AW's programmers lack time to implement such features, which is too
bad, and isn't a reason for not posting this kind of ideas :)
I like all the ideas except the text macros which i'd find annoying, and can't see the interest of resizing the view screen to fixed
values :)
Ah, and a full screen mode sure would be fun, but wouldn't increase the framerate in any way unless your 3d card doesn't support
windowed mode acceleration like old voodoos 1 / 2...

Fox Mc Cloud

Oct 18, 2001, 11:58pm

Ok, sorry, I didn't mean to be rude.
Anyway, my point was that having animations that would make the avatar stay in a defined positions wouldn't have any effect on lag.
the lag you're talking about is caused by your browser receiving information from avatars *changing* from one animation to another,
that is, data needs to be transfered to tell you that the gesture is being triggered.
If you press repeatedly the gesture buttons, data needs to be transfered each time, which could cause lag, but an animation that
would make the avatar stay in a position would just have to transfer data twice - once to sit and once to get up, for example.

Fox Mc Cloud

"lanezeri" <Lanezeri at stuff-x.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3bcf81a4 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> You don't have a clue about me.. so don't act like you do.. have you ever
> used my bot? Nope.. will you ever use my bot? Nope.. I know what I'm
> doing.. you don't..
>
> If the object moved it's mouth.. the texture would be screwed up.. the skin
> would be in the "opening" of the mouth.. to make the mouth open/close you
> need to edit textures..
>
> and..
>
> if you've ever been to AWGate, the new tourist people seem to like the
> "gestures" and play with them a lot.. and that makes lag.. does it not? and
> if someone had a consistent gesture going, it would cause too much lag..
> therefore.. you are the idiot..
>
> --
>
> Lanezeri

Oct 30, 2001, 7:17pm

maybe he meant "3.2's vis setting" ? this one isn't saved.

Fox Mc Cloud

"captain mad mike" <cmm at swcity.net> a écrit dans le message news: 3bdf1593$2 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Uhm.....please explain why this random phrase was spewed out into the vast
> area we call the wishlist. Though I do get what you mean ("I wish that 3.2s
> settings would stay the same") Works pretty well for me.

Oct 30, 2001, 7:51pm

Well, I do know that, I'm not the one who complained about it :) Just tried to interprete his post...
Fox Mc Cloud

"agent1" <Agent1 at my.activeworlds.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3bdf2763$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Actually, they are. If you're talking about the visibility menu, it's meant as a temporary change. It's not stored so that if you
set it to 200 and it causes your browser to crash or something it'll fall back to the setting in the Settings dialog.
>
> -Agent1

Nov 2, 2001, 8:33am

Then ask for a password at boot-time too, they won't be able to restart :)

Fox Mc Cloud

"data21" <dbmiller at kiski.net> a écrit dans le message news: 3be27cc6 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Yes, true bet then I would be yelled at for that, Im not the only one that
> uses this computer.
> And to disable a password screensaver all one needs to do is turn computer
> off then back on again and move the mouse during startup to prevent the
> screensaver from coming on, then go into the screensaver options and disable
> it or change the password.

Nov 2, 2001, 8:57am

Then can't you just tell them not to close the server?

Fox Mc Cloud

"data21" <dbmiller at kiski.net> a écrit dans le message news: 3be28972 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Yes they would, because I would then have to give that boot password to
> them, this is a family computer.
>
>
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Nov 19, 2001, 8:28pm

I'm not sure it'll work if the program catches the call, but he's perfectly
right to make you aware of something you might not have thought about.

Fox Mc Cloud

"data21" <dbmiller at kiski.net> a écrit dans le message news:
3bf93a2a at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> I don't call this valid, this in no way what so ever helps anyone or
> anything.
> Maybe you think its funny or something but I don't.
> If this is valid then you need help.
> evil overlord replied this to me.
> Try doing CTRL+ALT+DEL twice in a row really fast, most progs wont catch
> that :)

Dec 5, 2001, 12:43am

Charging by the minute is even worse than by the MB, and all phone companies in France do that (that means you pay by the minute for
connecting to the net, as well as for calling your neighbour on the phone)

Fox Mc Cloud

"syko" <sykofreak169 at msn.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c0d6c7c at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> what? isp's that charge mby the MB? evil feinds...
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Dec 5, 2001, 10:38am

We have decent food :P

Fox Mc Cloud

"tyberius" <tyberius at cinci.rr.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c0dfa12 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> lol sounds like it sux to be foreign

Dec 9, 2001, 4:37pm

In France I had a cool cable connection... 64kbps (8kBbps), 1 GB down per month, for 80$ a month... cool eh?
lol

Fox Mc Cloud

"captain mad mike" <cmm at swcity.net> a écrit dans le message news: 3c13a55d$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Yeah I use cable too...its a little more erratic but they're the only one up
> where I live. No DSL yet either (which we may switch to if it comes out...or
> maybe T1 if we come across a lot of money ^_^). Normally I can get a good
> 300kbps to 800kbps downloading, and its a flat rate too. Plus email accounts
> are apparently free and unlimited.

Dec 1, 2001, 11:25am

Well, forward and backward doesn't mean much in 3D :) But you were right to
call them Z axis and X axis rotations, Bowen probably misread "XZ" rotations
which would mean the horizontal plane.

The 3 rotations are also often called yaw (what we have, Y axis), pitch and
roll (the other 2, I think pitch would be x axis and roll z axis, but that
depends very much on how the object was made)

But I'm not sure Roland will use this representation (called Euler angles
representation) to rotate the objects. Although it's the most obvious for
humans, the Euler angles representation is the least obvious from a
programming point of view, and is subject to Gimble's lock...
So, either he just let it that way with Gimble's lock annoying you when you
try to rotate your objects in the correct position, or he used something
else (or he could have used computations that defeat Gimble's lock but
that's quite hard I think).

Fox Mc Cloud

"data21" <dbmiller at kiski.net> a écrit dans le message news:
3c085404 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> what ever loll. we need a way to rotate the object forward and backward.
> just like we can left and right :-)
>
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Dec 2, 2001, 4:28pm

.... or to have "run" animations :)

Fox Mc Cloud

"rocambole" <rocambole at real-virtuality.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3C0A4813.599690 at real-virtuality.com...
> As people get faster PC's and faster internet connection avatars no
> longer walk in AW. They speed around far too fast to look realistic. So
> it should be nice if world owners could set a speed limit for avatars,
> like f.ex. 2 meters per second (real life walk equals about 1,1 meters
> per second - or 4 kilometers in an hour)
>
> Rocambole

Dec 9, 2001, 4:39pm

I think they mean a spherical world actually :)

"captain mad mike" <cmm at swcity.net> a écrit dans le message news: 3c13aa02$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Terrain looks neat...you could make the world in a crater with a round world

Dec 3, 2001, 4:34am

You don't realise what programming really means, do you ? :)

Fox Mc Cloud

"caprise" <ccanee at arkwest.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c0b15c0 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> No it would be displayed in the intergrated web window, and besides they
> already have a system for sending the password. Im not saying make it an
> email client, it's something that aw can add to enhance the featues.
> -Caprise

Dec 4, 2001, 12:40am

Hey, What do you guys think about having a place to select a hard disk drive and defragment it from within AW so you can defrag
anytime without having to quit the browser? A scandisk option would be cool too.
It would need some minor modifications to the browser but adding a few lines to the .ini file should do.=)
-Fox Mc Cloud

PS: Roland, if you have the time add a disk partitioner module, Partitionmagic is too expensive.

Dec 4, 2001, 12:47am

Sure but I need to quit the browser, I'm sure AW would like me to stay online while I'm defragmenting :D

btw Norton SpeedDisk is better :)

Fox Mc Cloud

"bowen" <bowen at omegauniverse.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c0c37ed$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> LoL you're one freak Fox. Use FDisk ;).
>
> --Bowen--

Dec 9, 2001, 4:31pm

Uh??? a BIOS clock is extremely precise, do you think your multi-hunderd-Mhz computer runs between 100Hz and 2GHz depending on its
mood? every mobo already has its precise clock crystal !

Fox Mc Cloud

"captain mad mike" <cmm at swcity.net> a écrit dans le message news: 3c13a6cd$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Minutes are faster and slowed from your BIOS clock, some are crappy and a
> second is a little faster than a second should be so that throws off the VRT
> time. I'm gonna write to MSI and ask them to include a quartz timing
> mechanism on their KT266 Pro2 mobo...that way I can get athlon power and a
> reliable clock at the same time ^_^

Dec 5, 2001, 12:42am

I didn't understand either... could you rephrase your idea....?

Fox Mc Cloud

"marcus.gcn.cx" <i_have_a_site at yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c0cb271 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> I just recently signed up for the 3d homepage feature, and one thing came up
> I thought might be an attractive feature for AW users, especially world's
> owners.
>
> With limited capacity, have an additional world load. This would allow a
> world's owner to browse other worlds and when a visitor comes to theirs,
> they could switch over and either have the world they were in close or be on
> standby. Also, the world's list on the left would pick them up then since
> there is at least one user. To list all worlds (private and empty) there
> are now 2117 showing, but if this feature were used then right now there
> would be just 40 with the additional worlds people use. This means a lot
> easier time to the visitor sifting through the current worlds with owners of
> them actually online.

Dec 7, 2001, 12:30am

Well, right click on an empty place in the world list and your dreams will come true ;)

Fox Mc Cloud

"marcus.gcn.cx" <i_have_a_site at yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c102564 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> No, I do know you can select to show no empty rooms. That's the point of
> the suggestion, and yes you got that part right.
>
> If no one is in their world then people have to sift through all the worlds
> with 0 to get to theirs. How do you know if that person is online or not?
> They would have to be present in their world to at least show 1 person,
> hence the suggestion to be in 2 worlds with possibly limited capacity in
> one. I presented the numbers to illustrate this fact and the result.
> Instead of 2000 worlds, you would have about 50 to look at instead.

Dec 7, 2001, 4:17am

If you right click on an empty place in the world list, a popup menu will show that will allow you to hide private worlds and/or
empty worlds. Your world list will be considerably shrinked.

Fox Mc Cloud

"marcus.gcn.cx" <i_have_a_site at yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c1048f2$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Oh goody, I have a little less than 2000 to choose from then LOL. You must
> have missed the concept. So far kah is the lead, whoo go kah go!!!

Dec 7, 2001, 4:10pm

Don't blame me, I'm just a poor little French and I doesn't speak good le anglich :D

Hem anyway, so you want the world owner to be able to always see his world in the world list (I hope I haven't misunderstood you
again :) )... well that would be a nice option, and extending the idea, any user could benefit from choosing favourite worlds that
would appear on top of the list.

Fox Mc Cloud
Don't get mad at me if I still haven't got it.... lol

"marcus.gcn.cx" <i_have_a_site at yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c1062fc at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> And I know that too. One more time. I was trying to suggest a feature
> where people who ARE ONLINE and OWN A WORLD can have their world in that
> list. Taking the idea of right clicking and unchecking both, that would
> leave less worlds and the ones who ARE ONLINE and OWN A WORLD would show up
> (if they were allowed to be in 2 worlds with limited capabilites). Got it
> now?

Dec 9, 2001, 1:17am

lol well I think he wants that other users can also know when someone's online in a world they don't own

But thinking of it, it might not be that good a solution... Imagine if 15 people are monitoring the same world and waiting for
someone to enter... lol... they would all just wait and wouldn't enter the worl because it would stay at 0 count :)

Fox Mc Cloud

"dotar sojat" <dotar_sojat at barsoom.zzn.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c12a4ff at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Gee if I need to monitor my world I just but a bot there to alert me if
> someone comes in.

Dec 6, 2001, 11:51am

Wakarimasen deshita. lol

Fox Mc Cloud

"marcus.gcn.cx" <i_have_a_site at yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c0f6441 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Come on, can you finish it? wo renshu meiwen? watashi wa eigo wo shirimasu
> ka? ROFL

Dec 8, 2001, 1:33am

I'm quite sure that although the download window only shows 3 downloads, the browser is actually downloading more than that...
We'd have to ask Roland (or maybe anyone knows?) but that only 3 are shown simply doesn't mean anything (other than bad design :P)

Fox Mc Cloud

"data21" <dbmiller at kiski.net> a écrit dans le message news: 3c115688 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> reasion i brough this up is there are some larg texture and sound files
> running in AW , when them big files start loading in you got to wait for
> them before anything more will come in.
> This way if a larg file starts to load, the smaller ones can still load in
> during it.

Dec 9, 2001, 7:18pm

If we have a virtual bank we'll also have virtual bank robbers... mmh... :)

Fox Mc Cloud

Dec 19, 2001, 8:54pm

Well, that was just a joke, and I agree we don't need anything like money in virtual reality ;) (if only we hadn't any in real life
either)

And it's the first time I hear someone except Bill Gates say the words "Windöws" and "secure" in the same sentence, congratulations.

Fox Mc Cloud

"wing." <wing at systemrecall.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c210abe$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> I certainly hope that you're not implying that anyone in AW would be as
> dishonest as to cheat at a "game" of sorts and rob a virtual bank.
>
> Well, okay, maybe the dishonesty is there, but the skills are not. I'm
> perfectly confident that NOBODY in AW has the "m4d skillz0r" neccesary to
> "hack" (term used losely) the WinXP box that's hosting this bank.
>
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Dec 17, 2001, 9:09pm

Excuse me, no offense but... how old are you?

Fox Mc Cloud

"johnf" <john at dynamite-software.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3c1e5108 at server1.Activeworlds.com
> My idea first! I told Roland it a few weeks ago

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