With the theoretically-9-weeks-but-who-knows answer, everyone would actually be better off being told, "I have no clue how long it will take," because at least then there would be no false expectations.
Except that generally "I have no clue how long it will take" gets the response of "I need to tell so and so when it will be done" so then you end up getting your 9 weeks answer anyway.
Well the court they went for has a past of being a favorite for patent lawsuits. The court there has a history of fast-tracking patent suits and making sure that some of the usual stall-tactics in such cases don't fly. Read up more on the court and you'll see that it's not far-fetched at all.
Well, in the US, nothing is really required to be in any given language since there is no national language. It's just considered bad business to cut out the English-speaking portion of the population.
I think that the whole point would be that the software is the artist. As I understand it, when you're doing procedural rendering, the goal isn't low level control of the graphics, but is to have a lot of graphics where everything follows the rules (every tree has a trunk, branches, and some leaves) and then the details of individual instances vary within the rules. With that in mind, there would only be a need for a "master" artist that set what the general things should have and then the software would take care of the details.
It seems that the comments thus far have been centered around the idea that the unemployed are being forced to work on OSS. I think it is more the idea that working on OSS is an acceptable form of community service and the like.
I don't think that the arguments against the idea because of the lack of volunteering hold much water because of this. Those who choose to work on OSS to fulfill their community service responsibilities would be just as much volunteers as the rest of the OSS community. It's no different from an OSS person putting their development onto their resume. It's just using the volunteer work on the software for dual purpose.
Well, actually if you look at the bottom of google news you'll notice that it's in 21 languages other than English (counting Canadian English, Australian English, and the like as separate languages...so maybe a few less than that technically). But I'd say that Google is in enough other major languages to not be considered biased (at least as far as languages are concerned).
If buzztracker.org is biased toward English, then I would say it's because of their choices and no fault of Google.
The tags could be easily abused to monitor speeding, but they are not.
Abused? When you are driving on PUBLIC roads, you have no expectation of privacy from civilians or government. Further, driving on PUBLIC roads requires you to obey the LAWS the PUBLIC decided on. The public has demanded that when individuals decide to break speed limits, they are to be punished.
Personally, I invite automated ticketing of those who violate the speed limit. Maybe that financial burden will finally convince people to drive at more uniform speeds, instead of the completely irresponsible (and unnecessary) speeding I see all over Dallas and Houston.
If you speed and an officer does not see you, you are still speeding, and you still deserve a ticket.
This same thing happened at the University of Texas a couple of years ago. One would think they'd learn not to use SSN for id purposes anymore, but to my knowledge, UT still uses SSN for everything. Eventually maybe schools will figure out that it might not be a good idea to use SSN for any id purposes other than its original purpose, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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With the theoretically-9-weeks-but-who-knows answer, everyone would actually be better off being told, "I have no clue how long it will take," because at least then there would be no false expectations.
Except that generally "I have no clue how long it will take" gets the response of "I need to tell so and so when it will be done" so then you end up getting your 9 weeks answer anyway.
But a sinking aircraft carrier! ...or maybe one with a bit of water on the deck.
Well the court they went for has a past of being a favorite for patent lawsuits. The court there has a history of fast-tracking patent suits and making sure that some of the usual stall-tactics in such cases don't fly. Read up more on the court and you'll see that it's not far-fetched at all.
Tapping into the collective wisdom of the MySpace crowd might not be the most productive thing in the world...
Well, in the US, nothing is really required to be in any given language since there is no national language. It's just considered bad business to cut out the English-speaking portion of the population.
but it would still just be the old voting.
I think that the whole point would be that the software is the artist. As I understand it, when you're doing procedural rendering, the goal isn't low level control of the graphics, but is to have a lot of graphics where everything follows the rules (every tree has a trunk, branches, and some leaves) and then the details of individual instances vary within the rules. With that in mind, there would only be a need for a "master" artist that set what the general things should have and then the software would take care of the details.
Mine costs 50 bucks a month...that's from verizon with a 15/2 connection
It seems that the comments thus far have been centered around the idea that the unemployed are being forced to work on OSS. I think it is more the idea that working on OSS is an acceptable form of community service and the like. I don't think that the arguments against the idea because of the lack of volunteering hold much water because of this. Those who choose to work on OSS to fulfill their community service responsibilities would be just as much volunteers as the rest of the OSS community. It's no different from an OSS person putting their development onto their resume. It's just using the volunteer work on the software for dual purpose.
Well, actually if you look at the bottom of google news you'll notice that it's in 21 languages other than English (counting Canadian English, Australian English, and the like as separate languages...so maybe a few less than that technically). But I'd say that Google is in enough other major languages to not be considered biased (at least as far as languages are concerned). If buzztracker.org is biased toward English, then I would say it's because of their choices and no fault of Google.
The tags could be easily abused to monitor speeding, but they are not.
Abused? When you are driving on PUBLIC roads, you have no expectation of privacy from civilians or government. Further, driving on PUBLIC roads requires you to obey the LAWS the PUBLIC decided on. The public has demanded that when individuals decide to break speed limits, they are to be punished.
Personally, I invite automated ticketing of those who violate the speed limit. Maybe that financial burden will finally convince people to drive at more uniform speeds, instead of the completely irresponsible (and unnecessary) speeding I see all over Dallas and Houston.
If you speed and an officer does not see you, you are still speeding, and you still deserve a ticket.
Since it appears the site is already bogged down.. Link
This same thing happened at the University of Texas a couple of years ago. One would think they'd learn not to use SSN for id purposes anymore, but to my knowledge, UT still uses SSN for everything. Eventually maybe schools will figure out that it might not be a good idea to use SSN for any id purposes other than its original purpose, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Possibly because it's shocking to the general population that the system actually does work the way it should periodically.
And yet another reason why Texas deserves to be blessed.