[Research Questionnaire]

1.)    Did your Mummy love you?
Some days...

2.)    Did you Mummy spank you?
No, but she did beat me. generally with anything handy, including my father.

3.)    Did your Mummy tell you that your dingle-dongle would drop off if you played with it?
I suspect she meant to, but was too traumatized. I discovered the truth of it on my own when I learned she kept her own replacement in the back of her dresser. After that I wasn't worried that my own must have fallen off some time before I can remember, because I knew that replacements were sold and I wouldn't need to bother with long hours of watering with the shower in hopes that it would grow back.

[scripts and threads]

I agree, very useful in some scenarios, for instance it's the method I proposed for on demand reading of landmark data way back on the original forums to work around the llMapDestination touch limit. It's usually overkill for anything that you can sensibly pre read or event chain, of course, so most of the basic stuff dealt with in the forums doesn't need it. I tend to avoid it generally because of the lowered security implied, but it's nice to have when you need it.

[User Defined Functions - When and when not to]

short answer, essentially yes.

long answer, OOP is more practice than feature, but in theory Event Driven Programming tends towards Object Oriented... it can be violated in practice, but tends to work better if you don't. LSL's basic lacks (no pass by ref internally, limited privatization of functions) can lead to large violations in black box design, depending on the level you look at it.

[Is using the name "Starbucks" copyrighted?]

Given the fact that they are abusing the name and logo recognition to proffer a digital representation of the same product, IF starbucks wanted it taken down it would take zero effort under trademark law.

the problem is "IF". They may view it as just a marketing bonus.

[Is this legal?]

legal? yes.

in compliance with ToS? no.

the difference may not seem like much but it is important.

[scripts and threads]

oh I knew which trick you had in mind, I just wasn't gonna repeat it because it's only half sane in limited circumstances.

[What is so Uncommon]

as humans certain truths often ignored, or outright covered up. The Truth (complete), as opposed to Our Truth (hidden), or A Truth (partial), can be more or less likely to be known.

[Confirmation of receipt: Heads Up]

the verb tense needs work, but that looks like the implication to me as well

[scripts and threads]

I heard my name, and the suggestion that I had stretched the bounds of sanity, and I grinned rubbed my hands evilly.

[Why aren't Second Lifers supporting SOPA?]

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Parrish Ashbourne wrote:

So if some one list copyrighted material for sale on the SL marketplace and that item shows up in a Google search, under SOPA who is responsible, who get fined and what content or web page or web site gets taken down?

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 whomever has the deepest pockets and the most to lose

[Why aren't Second Lifers supporting SOPA?]

laguhable, and to think SL original conspiracy nut is onboard with it is entirely picture perfect.

I don't need any propaganda, I can read it just fine... and it does nothing for "the little guys", what it does do is give anyone with the money to throw at it the arbitrary ability to attack any and all businesses that host user based content.... without even the limited protections of DMCA. The more money you can throw at it, the more efficient the process becomes, and there is absolutely no accountability.

and the proposal isn't to just blacklist domains (although that's bad enough by itself), but mandates blocking specific content, regardless of source, which therefore necessitates both path tracking and in process monitoring.... the bill for which isn't going to be footed by the government, or even the companies that have to implement it (turning every service provider into a paranoid police force), it'll be footed by the little guys. and guess what? it isn't even going to slow the flood of illegal content, because even if those systems were in place overnight, the whole thing can't be maintaianed faster than it's worked around.... and it still doesn't target the people actually dealing in stolen content.

it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that, but chances are that your average congress critter with barely enough savvy to open an email account probably doesn't get that.

and for the record, if I ordered said toxic chemicals and they were sent by the proper means, you're damn right I would be screaming, only it wouldn't be censorship, it'd be theft, if they didn't deliver.

a big pipe hooked up to some trucks? I begin to see where public education is failing miserably...

[whats a good name for a wheelie bin business?]

Bin Laden

(well no one would forget it, that's for sure)

[Why aren't Second Lifers supporting SOPA?]

Oh I dunno, maybe because it's a stupid scorched earth tactic that does nothing to actually pursue the pirates but rather targets businesses, and destroys any posibility of of privacy and allows requires the interception and checking of in route packets. furthermore it has zero accountability, no proscribed methods to be in compliance, and no methods to contest violation. Additionally it provides no means of support to add the network resources and technology required to even attempt compliance.

it was drafted as an MPAA/RIAA wet dream by people who have no idea of how the internet works, nor it's structure, physical or logical.... and to top it off it isn't even effectively designed to do what it proposes.

IMHO it is quite possibly the most idiotic thing to hit the house floor.... ever.

[Great RL Business ideas?]

see what happens when you play to peoples strengths?

[Upcoming LSL feature: llTransferLindenDollars and transction_result]

valid agent is a key that is tied to an account, but not keys that are tied to other resources, or unassigned

[Land Controls]

more control may come if estate controls continue to get expanded, but we aren't there yet

[Great RL Business ideas?]

based on your previous soothsaying experience (posted in your thread prior to this one), I suspect market analyst, weather forecaster, or cult leader could all be suitable endeavors

[Web profile privacy and notifications screwed up.]

mine is locked down for the most part (no feeds, no notices), but I'm mildly annoyed that people can still follow and I can't limit messaging to to less than "friends".

[Script bean counters]

another factor is that if script time is high, causing script throttling, that effect is deadly for vehicles, and some physics applications. but if memory is high enough it can still cause paging. paging sucks the life out of a whole region.

there's lots of room to play in the current model though, and 10MiB isn't that uncommon, nor is it usually that much of a negative impact... anything over that is patently absurd IMO, and a target of under 2MiB is preferable, and easly achievable for most users (that 32 mono scripts at full capacity). anyone that even mentions something about THAT low level  of usage out of the blue should probably be smacked with a clue stick.

[Sex and skin -- get close to your choices]

TE = Tiny Empires... it's a turn based social hud game based on feudal europe...it was all the rage back in the day, and there are still thousands of players. alts are used to hold blocks of land by some

[An unexpected error has occurred...]

but it really is unexpected... because the system is set up with no memory of previous actions (so no file that says hey there was something here but we yanked it).... and servers are about as bright as goldfish...only slightly more useful (unless you were going to make sushi with it)

but yeah I get what you are saying... the message should be close to standard 404... we don't have that, it may have been moved, deleted, or the address is wrong.

and now for some funny...

(kinda reminds me of "10 Second Tom" from 50 First Dates)

[User Defined Functions - When and when not to]

depends on your goal... as a general practice, yeah if you're repeating the same code (or it's code that can be used in other projects) you should turn it into a function...

in LSL there are some stiff speed and size penalties to encapsulating code in functions though, especially with the lack of pass-by-reference. for instance, projectile scripts can often react faster with inlined code than they can with function code, even if there are several instances of the same code. the tradeoff is that it becomes a bit more of a pain to maintain (must be sure to update all instances), and can lead to subtle unexpected behaviors where two paths using the same code may trigger before the next step of either.

the performance gains may be worth it for some things, and may not for others... I tend to write the functionalized versions first, and then if I need the extra performance insert into it's call spots, and test for those subtle errors.

[Become a "Lord" on SL!]

hmmmm

Void Singer, Black Knight, I like the sounds of that lol....

as for Lindens.... we could take a step back a bit further before feudalism, and borrow from the Roman Empire... all Lindena would be Praetors (those protesting a policy could call the CEO Praetor Maximus rather than Emperor)

[New Law Would Make Violating A TOS A Criminal Act]

the reason the trial judge doesn't generally deal with the validty of a law is because it screws with the appeals process... and they catch a lot of crap for not focusing on "the issue at hand".... things like that can break break careers if that judge wants to move up the food chain.

[Sex and skin -- get close to your choices]

nah, just develop MPD then it becomes effortless >=D