Re: [OpenVerse] Any progress on the whiteboard? - Privilaged Users

[Anders Eurenius <gargoyle@histgr430.sn.umu.se>]

> > yes i use this a lot but i have come to agree with this statement. Everyone
> > should be allowed to draw. You should be allowed to ignore some people's
> > drawings. There is no point creating a great feature only certain people can
> > use.

That isn't really my objection. Even on our anarchistic internet, we
have ways to punish misdeeders, so that we can raise the young, and
correct deviants. The problem I see is one of implementation. Right now,
OV is a text-chat with some interpreted slang. If "we" (Cruise, really)
were to start inserting control features, security features will be
next. 

Why? One word: "1RC\X/AR", d00dz! (Oh, it'll start as a prank, but end
up a plague!)

(Political rant about censorship vs. lack of attention ominiously
omitted.)

> When I wrote that, I was thinking about my project and the prospect of
> people hassling us by overwriting our stuff.  I guess having the room
> controller limit access (give only some people dry-erase markers) and
> letting people ignore other people's doodles would work equally well.
> Either way is fine.
> 
> I was thinking along the lines of a moderated IRC channel where only
> some people had voices.

Ignoring is pretty cool because "we've" "already" got a buffer. This way
you could "unignore" somebody, and catch that thing somebody said was
way cool, decide it wasn't so cool, and start ignoring them again, and
be rid of it. Again, vectors are cheap.
(Also, pointers are cheap, but that's offtopic)

You could keep a local vectorbuffer at a completely negligible cost.

(In fact, you could probably keep a log of all your email
correspondance, irc sessions, (yes, even the one fell asleep in the
middle of) source code, or whatever as long as it is text, and it would
probably still be negligible, compared to a harddrive. If you compress
the #$&"$#%$ out of it, a 3 minute song *might* weigh in just under the
source code for christians!)

Gargoyle
Ps. I think this rewinding thing has given me the solution for my
nonlinear/selective undo problem. THANK YOU ALL!
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