How do you override them? On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Ann Otoole <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm surprised protests are being tolerated in this mailing list. > > As for the rendering limits that were put in you can override them as an > option. If your frame rate suffers because of your system configuration then > it is your choice. Frankly I don't even consider frame rates in the SL > viewer to even matter since you are not getting server frame rates above 45 > anyway. In order to record cinema quality video the SL frame rate would have > to be above 60 FPS to accommodate the recording overhead to get to the ~30 > FPS needed. > > If people want to dispute the release then they need to apply pressure to > the executive level of Linden Research Inc. Not the SLDEV mailing list. IMHO > anyway. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <[email protected]> > *To:* Latif Khalifa <[email protected]> > *Cc:* sldev <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:35:48 AM > *Subject:* Re: [sldev] 1.23.4 released in a hurry ? NO. > > > On Jun 17, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Latif Khalifa wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Brad Kittenbrink (Brad > > Linden)<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm not sure I understand what your complaint is. There's nothing > >> blocking 1.22 viewers from logging in. Our policy for deprecating > >> older > >> viewers is described here: > >> > https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/technology/blog/2009/03/09/supported-viewer-versions > >> > >> Quite frankly if you're looking for "Some kind of clue" that a new > >> viewer is going to be released, then IMHO you should treat our > >> release > >> of RC0 as that clue. We've been bad in previous releases by calling > >> things that weren't even close to releasable quality "RC" viewers, > >> but > >> the 1.23 RC process is what we've been aiming for ever since we > >> started > >> doing Release Candidates. We're sorry if you've gotten used to us > >> sucking, but this is one case where I'm glad to disappoint you. ;) > > > > It really takes a brave man to claim 1.23RC4 and now production 1.24.4 > > "releasable quality". Is that why comments were closed after a few > > dozen or so on the blog post announcing the new viewer? > > > I absolutely claim that 1.23 is not only of releasable quality, but > the best viewer we've ever shipped. It met its design goals on RC1. > The bugs that were found and fixed in the next 3 RCs were minimal. On > a global statistics level, the crash rates are lower than they've ever > been, even when you include crashes caused by specific video cards. > > There are some individuals who are upset about some of the design > decisions, like the redesign of pie menus. That's not a quality issue. > There are other individuals who are upset about some of the technical > decisions, such as the imposition of rendering limits where we never > had them before. That's not a quality issue either. And there are > people who don't like the new Adult-Only stuff. That's also not a > quality issue. > > The definition of quality is meeting the specification. We executed on > this viewer better than we've ever done it before, and I'm pretty > proud of our team for doing it. > > By the way, contrary to the implication in the subject line, we > released 1.23.4 almost exactly according to the schedule I announced > internally in February. The internal decision to ship was based on > quality. As every professional software organization does, for every > open issue we balance the risk of shipping a product with that issue > against the risk of trying to fix it. When all the risks of shipping > are lower than the risks of fixing, we ship it. Which is what we did > with RC4. > > Q > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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