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Re: Townbuilders newsgroup idea (General Discussion)
Re: Townbuilders newsgroup idea // General Discussion
Jul 13, 2001, 2:57pm
Your premise is faulty. If you want to see 3.1 motion/rotate/lighting
etc... commands, you need 3.1!!! 2.2 is only there for people whose
technology is not capable of using 3.1. This is an issue of better
technology downsizing.
A better analogy would be, you are telling all 3.1 users to not use the
motion/rotate/lighting etc... commands, which I don't find 3.1 users doing,
especially 3.1 users that have worlds. They are taking every advantage of
using the extra features, and so they should, they paid for it.
[View Quote]"goober king" <rar1 at acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote in message
news:3B4F252F.615D1081 at acsu.buffalo.edu...
> Look at it this way, Marcus. If we were to use your logic in another
scenario, then
> AWCI shouldn't have kept 2.2 when it went to 3.0. It should simply have
produced a
> statement saying "AW now needs a 3D graphics card in order to work. Please
purchase a
> 3D graphics card if your computer does not already have one before
downloading AW
> 3.0. Thank you." Now, if AWCI had done that, they would have alienated all
of their
> users who can't afford a 3D video card or whose video card wasn't
compatible with
> DirectX.
>
> Need another example? Let's say Facter finally releases the new AWCI
website, and
> it's chock full of cool features. There's just one problem: It only works
in IE5.5.
> So, using your logic, Facter should put a statement on the website that
says "This
> site only works in IE5.5. Please download IE5.5 before viewing this
webpage. Thank
> you." If he did that, he would alienate all the Netscape users (many of
whom could be
> potential corporate sponsors), as well as anyone else not using IE5.5.
>
> How does this apply to someone who posts in HTML? I would like to think
that the
> reason you post a message in a newsgroup is so that other people will read
it and
> respond to it. If you post in HTML, you're essentially saying "This post
is in HTML.
> Please download a newsreader that can handle HTML posts if your current
newsreader
> does not, or switch to a different ISP that does not charge by the
bandwidth." Now,
> do you really want to alienate people from what you're trying to say
simply because
> you can't stand to post in plain text? I should hope not.
>
> Bottom Line: These newsgroups are in plain text only. If you are
uncomfortable with
> plain text messages, please find a different newsgroup that allows other
formats.
> Thank you.
>
> m a r c u s wrote:
posts
they
what
assume
and
are
of
your
and
unless
alt.binaries.news.activeworlds.general.discussion or
binaries,
>
> --
> Goober King
> Doesn't care if he alienates the stupid...
> rar1 at acsu.buffalo.edu
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