Acutally, I live in Jerusalem and what Yossi said is true, that is if we understand what the original commentor was referring to. I have the compass, and it has a mechanical recalibrator so that when ever you travel from country to country, you can re-set it one time, “just like your watch”, and it will alway point in the proper direction. If you live in Israel as I do, so there is no difference. When you travel to Tel Aviv it is set for Tel Aviv, if you travel to Be’er Sheva, down South, so it has a recalibration for each city in Israel. It makes no difference if you travel N,S,E or West, it is recalibrated just as you would do when travelling through different international countries. The first comment above is confusing as the term, “margin of error” is used. there is no margin of error when one travels N,S. E. or W wether in the U.S. or in Israel etc. As long as one adjusts the compass in accordance with the proper instructions. Even in Jerusalem there are settings for different neighborhoods, so in this case it is not pointing to Jerusalem, but rather to Har habais. Some Rabbi’s use the compass for weddings to know in which direction to face the chupah. “Margin of error”, can only be understood to refer to something that is not functioning proplerly, i.e. even when you follow the instructions. So, if you are in Tel Aviv, and the compass is NOT functioning properly, i.e. maybe there is some metal too close to it, and we all know what metal (iron) will do to a magnetic compass. So, since one is relatively close to Jerusalem,(about 40 miles), since they are so close, even if the compass is a little bit off,i.e 5 degrees etc, due to some “margin of error”, it will still be pointing to Jerusalem. But, if 5,000 miles away, something is causing the compass to malfunction as stated, the same 5 degrees would be much more of a significant descrepency than if close to Jerusalem. The part above about the “world being round”, I am not sure what that refers to. Firstly the world is NOT round but more pumpkin shaped. And, what does it mean that no matter which way you face you will be facing, Jerusalem, Mecca etc. I guess this is probably some Letzanus.

This bit was the sticking point for several days for me: rename all *.raw files to *.r32 so that opensim does not mistake them for LindenLab raw files

Two points to add: terrain commands have since dropped the ’script’ part and no need to run a script to load terrains at startup, they stick now.

Slartibartfast indeed! Keep up the good work.

LLSD wins hands down, why have more formats than needed?

Really, a representation language that can be described in 5 state diagrams is much better than the huge and overspecified cruft from the W3C. Regardless of the fact that there’s a documented interface to parse it, how many times have the XML parsers been found to have bugs?

What is it going to be used for? Who’s the customer? People coding administrative front ends? Does this have any chance of growing into something more, like a way to query or add serialized assets?

JSON seems obvious if this is just for administrative front end mashups. Maybe we limit the scope to that and make it JSON.

LLSD would be my pick for asset serialization and such since it is more largely compatible with LL and the working group and includes three forms, xml, binary, and ‘human readable’, which I think is the one you are comparing JSON with.

I suppose nothing wrong with having right tool for the job, and little mashes up better than JSON. But overall I prefer using what we have.