Maybe it rightfully flags DRM files. Maybe they also include a rootkit. At least it would make sense to me, if their heuristic would detect sneaky encrypted files looking like normal music files.
Well, you either got a crazy fast connection, or no big data at all.
Let's calculate that for something realistic, assuming 50 kilobytes per second of upload speed, and a 1 TB disc:
(1 TB / 50 kB)/60/60/24 = 231.48148... DAYS!
For it to take a week, you would have to have a line of over 1.6 MB/s. That is, in DSL speak, a ~13 Mb/s *upload* speed. Which would usually result in a ~420 Mb/s download speed. (Extrapolated from my "official" 192 kb/s (up) for a 6000 kb/s (down) line.) Or your disk would have to be only 30 GB big. Or something in between.
Online? That is the most stupid thing I heard all year!
It's the SUV of backup strategies. It has nothing you want, but is makes you look oh so cool... oh wait, it makes you look like an idiot.
It's slow, it is the most insecure thing you can do, data could get stolen, deleted, the company can die, it can cancel your account, oh and did I say that it is freaking *slow*? How slow? Well, your home DSL line might have a realistic upload speed of 50 kB per second. And assuming your disk is 1 TB big, then it would take:
A share? Ha. You'll be lucky if you get a copy of the finished product for free, and are allowed to make your own poster for your wall!
Because usually, they want everything and all. And then some!
They are as much business *angels* as Lucifer is an angel, when he buys your soul.
Rights, all the profits, you name it. If you let them, they even erase your name from the credits. Oh, and of course they want the game to be what they want. Which usually means it will be a piece of shit, because they are investors, not professional game designers. And naturally don't know anything about games. So you have to sneak and trick your way around them, to even get to an acceptable game at all.
No. Thank. You. I'd rather die from being raped by the asbestos Christmas tree Shrike monster, than do this a second time.
Because I can open my old book of ideas, and show you that I had that very idea, just in a better and more fair manner, and without disgusting mental acrobatic lie-words like "IP".
I can tell you that it is pretty much impossible to get people to pay upfront, for something that they *may* get. Because, if you think a game concept does not change extremely in those 4 years, you know nothing about the business. ^^)
If you then add idiocies like closing down the source of the game, that those people already completely financed, including profit, you can right out forget it. I say: They financed it, they *own* it. Including the code. Including a thank you in the end titles. Including some unique object that later buyers will never be able to lay their hands on. ^^
Luckily, I found an even better model. Better, because the buyers already get something right at the beginning, and only have to pay that piece too. And I will be using that exact model in my next game. Which means I do not have to have a greedy idiotic "client" to get money, who wants me to make a piece of shit out of it. (I look at you, EA! Microsoft is a shiny knight of cuddly love bears compared to you!)
After all that Microsoft did, does, and will probably always do, the hatred for Microsoft is completely rightful and perfectly founded on those actions.
It's like calling it "a disease" to call a murderer and mass scammer what he is, just because some of it was some time ago, and some of it is still happening, but more or less sneaky. If that someone got what he deserved, then it's acceptable to stop the hatred. But not before that.
I will treat Microsoft for exactly what they are, as long as it takes go give them their rightful punishment. And it's not only Microsoft. By far. MS looks like a joke in the light of criminal giants like Monsanto & the rest chemical industry, the defense industry, RIAA/MPAA, etc. But still, they are close followers.
Inform yourself, before you mod this comment. *Really* inform yourself. There are many lists out there about what Microsoft did.
No. The original idea was, that if you do years of research, and got an ingenious result, that you at least get awarded for at for some time, before others come, and put you out of business. If you really did hard work, and your licenses are fair, there's no problem with that.
The problems start, when the patent office awards patents for things that did not take you anything, when you are so stupid that you only offer licenses that are extortion (thereby getting no licenses and no money at all), and when the patent term is way too long, awarding "inventors" way too much.
And the reason for this, which answers the question why the patent office would do something that hurts its employer (we, the people), is that the patent office and the "inventors" are in cahoots with each other, profiting both from it.
Oh, and the only reason that this works, is that we let the patent office do it, by not firing them, or their direct bosses (the politicians responsible, who usually are also profiting from it personally).
So we should really look at ourselves, and either accept that we are too comfortable to not be ok with it, including these consequences. Or stand up and change it. Even if, in the beginning, as usual, you're all alone doing it.:)
You know that greed is the evolutionary basis of our existence, do you? Why do we rule the world, and not other animals? Because we killed and ate them, or took all their resources away from them them. You can use pretty words like "we were evolutionary more successful" to hide that fact. But it's still exactly what happened.
The only reason your neighbor does not kill you and steal all your things, is because it would hurt *him* in the long run. Either because of police punishing him. Or because it helps *him* more, when you are his friend.
But please, throw away what you consider "baggage", and die out in an evolutionary blink of an eye. More for us. TYVM. ^^
In the words of that segment of the Daily Show: "Who the fuck are you?" ^^
It's funny how some nobodies with a too big ego try to state "I think it is so and so. And that's that. You now you all have to think like me. Because I say so. And because I dominate *everything*!" And they really believe that.
While we call it "delusional reality", laugh at them, and tell them to move along. ^^
Lol. I wonder why those "laptop hunters" ads are mentioned so much. I mean do those who mention it, really believe, that there is any single human out there, stupid enough, to take those cheesy, completely stupid, and all around ridiculously horrible ads seriously? What are you smokin'?
Sorry, but I started with Pascal and then Delphi. And it blocked me. Because I always walked around C/C++, and never really learned it. I loved it, back then. But frankly, ObjectPascal, as a language, and Delphi, (as in:) the libraries, are extremely outdated today. After years of Java, PHP, Python and Haskell, I found myself crippled by their lack of features. And only C and C++ beat it in lack of elegance. But C/C++ at least have more features.
I recommend starting out with Python, and maybe the WebDev area (which is much fun right now, with HTML5, JS, SVG, CSS3, Firebug, etc, in Firefox 3.5). And then go straight for the full package: C and Java (forget C++, it tries to be C and Java, but fails to beat both) on the practical side, and Haskell and Ocaml on the fun and educational side. (With Haskell, you're in for a ride, but it is totally worth it.)
There is no walking around it, by clinging to simple languages for years. The nice thing is, that when you learn the most advanced languages, you automatically learn to program in a better way in less elegant languages (like using full OOP and functional programming styles in C and JS.)
I know that stock markets that deal virtual goods, are doomed to crash every couple of decades. It's a psychological must. It crashes every time people start to check, what the real actual value of the stock is.
But millisecond trading? I thought the rule was to see who could wait the longest!
Oh well. I never was an expert on imaginary money. (E.g. everything not backed by real physical things like gold.)
Nah. Won't be compatible with the iPhone. Will be blocked from the store because it infringes the rights of Monsanto. Or it will be in Java, which every phone on the plane, except the iPhone, can do.
- When you're at the quantum level, you can't image it without changing it.
That's stupid. You don't need to go to the quantum level. The electronic and chemical levels are perfectly fine. And there you can image it without relevant changes.
Also, I don't know if you know this, but we actually can measure things "without changing them". The key is a trick we play with time itself. They did it with the double-slit experiment. Where it worked like this:
They entangled every photon with another photon. Then they shot the first photon trough the slits, which had polarization filters in them, and let it hit the wall/sensor, creating the interference pattern, because nothing was measured up to that point. *Then* they measured the polarization of the *other*, entangled photon. Which at that point must have the same state (and therefore polarization) as the original photon. This would have destroyed the interference pattern... if *it wasn't already way too late for this*, because the first photon *had already hit the wall/sensor*.
Of course for a human brain, this would be pretty unrealistic. But seen purely physical, this ingenious experiment shows that it would not be impossible. Just very very hard.:)
Wrong. YOU don't know how it works, and you don't know that others know how it works.
I know, because I know how it works. Chemically we know most of the processes. Algorithmically, we know pretty much all of it.
The key is, to not think of complex processes. Because they are not complex. They are emergent, but very simple processes. Only the results are complex.
I see so many researchers, researching how those complex resulting processes work. They are completely caught up in that box, unable to look at it in a more general and basic sense.
In a way, it's like the program "the game of life". There those researchers would research how bubbles form. Why some structures have right angles, etc. Instead of looking at the (relatively) very simple basic algorithm. Which would allow you to deduce all the higher level processes from it.
Looking at the basic mechanisms, allowed me personally, to draw that very connection between neurology and psychology, that those two sciences struggle with so much. It makes understanding and solving psychological problems of my friends soo much easier, it's not even funny. Turns out it nearly always is the same basic problem. You just have to adapt the actual actions to the situation. But the solving algorithm stays the same.
Because normal people don't do it for the money! If you do only care for the money, you do not care for the idea in itself, and how it is realized, anyway.
I, for one, as most healthy people, am rather poor and have a entry in the history books for my idea, than to be rich, and leave that entry to some asshole with a truckload of money.
I must say, that your comment reeks of the assumptions of a stupid man. No offense. But some people actually are more intelligent than most, and happen to be an expert in specific areas, resulting in nobody else being able to come up with the ideas. That you yourself are unable to come up with ideas that nobody else actually can come up with, does not mean that others can't. Of course, because of that "average" power of imagination, you wouldn't be able to imagine people with such great ideas anyway.
So I feel a bit offended by your comment. Especially since I actually had such ideas, and could prove that nobody else could have had them.
The problem with your idea (of protecting your idea) is, that the good and ingenious parts are usually those that you want to leave away when proposing your idea. Which means the answers of the other side will be worthless.
No. NDAs are a total joke. They don't prevent anything physically. Let me sign an NDA, and tell me all your greatest ideas. I will go and tell them to a third person anyway. Without you knowing.
Then, a year later, someone offers products with your ideas in them. What are you going to do? Sue me? You can't prove that I gave it away. Even if I was the only one you know you told it to. (Ideally, the third person would have installed a microphone and camera an the room, even without me knowing.)
Sue him? He didn't sign any NDA.
It's just as with laws. It's forbidden to murder people. Yet it happens every single day.
I've got a great trick to take the wind out of potential idea stealers' sails.
Tell them right from the beginning, that there are already many many people out there working on it (in partial secrecy), and that you started early, so you got an advantage. But if others wanted to enter now, they would have got not the slightest chance, because it's already way too late.
This makes people stop thinking about if they could do this too instantly. And the later it gets, the less hope will remain in their heads. It works great every single time. ^^
Of course, if you're really evil, you can tell that to others presenting their ideas to you! And then pursue their idea yourself. ^^ But this only works, if they don't know that trick themselves. (So don't try it on me, because I can get more evil than you could ever imagine, in such cases.;)
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Maybe it rightfully flags DRM files. Maybe they also include a rootkit. At least it would make sense to me, if their heuristic would detect sneaky encrypted files looking like normal music files.
Well, you either got a crazy fast connection, or no big data at all.
Let's calculate that for something realistic, assuming 50 kilobytes per second of upload speed, and a 1 TB disc:
(1 TB / 50 kB) /60/60/24 = 231.48148... DAYS!
For it to take a week, you would have to have a line of over 1.6 MB/s. That is, in DSL speak, a ~13 Mb/s *upload* speed. Which would usually result in a ~420 Mb/s download speed. (Extrapolated from my "official" 192 kb/s (up) for a 6000 kb/s (down) line.)
Or your disk would have to be only 30 GB big.
Or something in between.
Online? That is the most stupid thing I heard all year!
It's the SUV of backup strategies. It has nothing you want, but is makes you look oh so cool... oh wait, it makes you look like an idiot.
It's slow, it is the most insecure thing you can do, data could get stolen, deleted, the company can die, it can cancel your account, oh and did I say that it is freaking *slow*?
How slow? Well, your home DSL line might have a realistic upload speed of 50 kB per second. And assuming your disk is 1 TB big, then it would take:
(1TB / 50kB)/60/60/24 = 231.48148... DAYS! That's nearly 8 months!
Good luck with that!
Their global market share is so tiny (2007/8 *sales*. Not to be confused by the total number of phones in active use!), and their lack of Java so ridiculous, that we professional developers couldn't care less. They are not worth the effort, just to make some Apple fanboys happy, who won't do anything but complain anyway, because your app got more than one clickweel.
A share? Ha. You'll be lucky if you get a copy of the finished product for free, and are allowed to make your own poster for your wall!
Because usually, they want everything and all. And then some!
They are as much business *angels* as Lucifer is an angel, when he buys your soul.
Rights, all the profits, you name it. If you let them, they even erase your name from the credits.
Oh, and of course they want the game to be what they want. Which usually means it will be a piece of shit, because they are investors, not professional game designers. And naturally don't know anything about games. So you have to sneak and trick your way around them, to even get to an acceptable game at all.
No. Thank. You.
I'd rather die from being raped by the asbestos Christmas tree Shrike monster, than do this a second time.
Because I can open my old book of ideas, and show you that I had that very idea, just in a better and more fair manner, and without disgusting mental acrobatic lie-words like "IP".
I can tell you that it is pretty much impossible to get people to pay upfront, for something that they *may* get. Because, if you think a game concept does not change extremely in those 4 years, you know nothing about the business. ^^)
If you then add idiocies like closing down the source of the game, that those people already completely financed, including profit, you can right out forget it.
I say: They financed it, they *own* it. Including the code. Including a thank you in the end titles. Including some unique object that later buyers will never be able to lay their hands on. ^^
Luckily, I found an even better model. Better, because the buyers already get something right at the beginning, and only have to pay that piece too. And I will be using that exact model in my next game. Which means I do not have to have a greedy idiotic "client" to get money, who wants me to make a piece of shit out of it. (I look at you, EA! Microsoft is a shiny knight of cuddly love bears compared to you!)
Have you seen the latest photos and statements? I'd not be surprised if his last "holiday" included rotting in a grave somewhere. ^^
And "celebrities" are no different, apparently.
After all that Microsoft did, does, and will probably always do, the hatred for Microsoft is completely rightful and perfectly founded on those actions.
It's like calling it "a disease" to call a murderer and mass scammer what he is, just because some of it was some time ago, and some of it is still happening, but more or less sneaky.
If that someone got what he deserved, then it's acceptable to stop the hatred. But not before that.
I will treat Microsoft for exactly what they are, as long as it takes go give them their rightful punishment.
And it's not only Microsoft. By far. MS looks like a joke in the light of criminal giants like Monsanto & the rest chemical industry, the defense industry, RIAA/MPAA, etc. But still, they are close followers.
Inform yourself, before you mod this comment. *Really* inform yourself. There are many lists out there about what Microsoft did.
No. The original idea was, that if you do years of research, and got an ingenious result, that you at least get awarded for at for some time, before others come, and put you out of business.
If you really did hard work, and your licenses are fair, there's no problem with that.
The problems start, when the patent office awards patents for things that did not take you anything, when you are so stupid that you only offer licenses that are extortion (thereby getting no licenses and no money at all), and when the patent term is way too long, awarding "inventors" way too much.
And the reason for this, which answers the question why the patent office would do something that hurts its employer (we, the people), is that the patent office and the "inventors" are in cahoots with each other, profiting both from it.
Oh, and the only reason that this works, is that we let the patent office do it, by not firing them, or their direct bosses (the politicians responsible, who usually are also profiting from it personally).
So we should really look at ourselves, and either accept that we are too comfortable to not be ok with it, including these consequences. Or stand up and change it. Even if, in the beginning, as usual, you're all alone doing it. :)
Would fit with their strategy, as that diet of chicken soup makes thing worse. Try something that actually helps the immune system, instead. :)
You know that greed is the evolutionary basis of our existence, do you? Why do we rule the world, and not other animals? Because we killed and ate them, or took all their resources away from them them. You can use pretty words like "we were evolutionary more successful" to hide that fact. But it's still exactly what happened.
The only reason your neighbor does not kill you and steal all your things, is because it would hurt *him* in the long run. Either because of police punishing him. Or because it helps *him* more, when you are his friend.
But please, throw away what you consider "baggage", and die out in an evolutionary blink of an eye. More for us. TYVM. ^^
In the words of that segment of the Daily Show: "Who the fuck are you?" ^^
It's funny how some nobodies with a too big ego try to state "I think it is so and so. And that's that. You now you all have to think like me. Because I say so. And because I dominate *everything*!"
And they really believe that.
While we call it "delusional reality", laugh at them, and tell them to move along. ^^
Sorry, for answering all your questions and killing all the buildup at once. ;)
Lol. I wonder why those "laptop hunters" ads are mentioned so much. I mean do those who mention it, really believe, that there is any single human out there, stupid enough, to take those cheesy, completely stupid, and all around ridiculously horrible ads seriously? What are you smokin'?
Sorry, but I started with Pascal and then Delphi. And it blocked me. Because I always walked around C/C++, and never really learned it.
I loved it, back then. But frankly, ObjectPascal, as a language, and Delphi, (as in:) the libraries, are extremely outdated today. After years of Java, PHP, Python and Haskell, I found myself crippled by their lack of features. And only C and C++ beat it in lack of elegance. But C/C++ at least have more features.
I recommend starting out with Python, and maybe the WebDev area (which is much fun right now, with HTML5, JS, SVG, CSS3, Firebug, etc, in Firefox 3.5).
And then go straight for the full package:
C and Java (forget C++, it tries to be C and Java, but fails to beat both) on the practical side, and
Haskell and Ocaml on the fun and educational side. (With Haskell, you're in for a ride, but it is totally worth it.)
There is no walking around it, by clinging to simple languages for years. The nice thing is, that when you learn the most advanced languages, you automatically learn to program in a better way in less elegant languages (like using full OOP and functional programming styles in C and JS.)
I know that stock markets that deal virtual goods, are doomed to crash every couple of decades. It's a psychological must. It crashes every time people start to check, what the real actual value of the stock is.
But millisecond trading? I thought the rule was to see who could wait the longest!
Oh well. I never was an expert on imaginary money. (E.g. everything not backed by real physical things like gold.)
Nah. Won't be compatible with the iPhone. Will be blocked from the store because it infringes the rights of Monsanto. Or it will be in Java, which every phone on the plane, except the iPhone, can do.
- When you're at the quantum level, you can't image it without changing it.
That's stupid. You don't need to go to the quantum level. The electronic and chemical levels are perfectly fine.
And there you can image it without relevant changes.
Also, I don't know if you know this, but we actually can measure things "without changing them". The key is a trick we play with time itself.
They did it with the double-slit experiment. Where it worked like this:
They entangled every photon with another photon. Then they shot the first photon trough the slits, which had polarization filters in them, and let it hit the wall/sensor, creating the interference pattern, because nothing was measured up to that point.
*Then* they measured the polarization of the *other*, entangled photon. Which at that point must have the same state (and therefore polarization) as the original photon.
This would have destroyed the interference pattern... if *it wasn't already way too late for this*, because the first photon *had already hit the wall/sensor*.
Of course for a human brain, this would be pretty unrealistic. But seen purely physical, this ingenious experiment shows that it would not be impossible. Just very very hard. :)
Wrong. YOU don't know how it works, and you don't know that others know how it works.
I know, because I know how it works. Chemically we know most of the processes.
Algorithmically, we know pretty much all of it.
The key is, to not think of complex processes. Because they are not complex.
They are emergent, but very simple processes. Only the results are complex.
I see so many researchers, researching how those complex resulting processes work. They are completely caught up in that box, unable to look at it in a more general and basic sense.
In a way, it's like the program "the game of life". There those researchers would research how bubbles form. Why some structures have right angles, etc.
Instead of looking at the (relatively) very simple basic algorithm. Which would allow you to deduce all the higher level processes from it.
Looking at the basic mechanisms, allowed me personally, to draw that very connection between neurology and psychology, that those two sciences struggle with so much.
It makes understanding and solving psychological problems of my friends soo much easier, it's not even funny. Turns out it nearly always is the same basic problem. You just have to adapt the actual actions to the situation. But the solving algorithm stays the same.
It's called a "plane". Or a "helicopter". And if you're rich, you can buy one.
If not, you have to take the (Air)bus.
Wait, or do something, for costs to come down.
Because normal people don't do it for the money! If you do only care for the money, you do not care for the idea in itself, and how it is realized, anyway.
I, for one, as most healthy people, am rather poor and have a entry in the history books for my idea, than to be rich, and leave that entry to some asshole with a truckload of money.
I must say, that your comment reeks of the assumptions of a stupid man. No offense. But some people actually are more intelligent than most, and happen to be an expert in specific areas, resulting in nobody else being able to come up with the ideas.
That you yourself are unable to come up with ideas that nobody else actually can come up with, does not mean that others can't.
Of course, because of that "average" power of imagination, you wouldn't be able to imagine people with such great ideas anyway.
So I feel a bit offended by your comment. Especially since I actually had such ideas, and could prove that nobody else could have had them.
The problem with your idea (of protecting your idea) is, that the good and ingenious parts are usually those that you want to leave away when proposing your idea. Which means the answers of the other side will be worthless.
No. NDAs are a total joke. They don't prevent anything physically. Let me sign an NDA, and tell me all your greatest ideas.
I will go and tell them to a third person anyway. Without you knowing.
Then, a year later, someone offers products with your ideas in them. What are you going to do? Sue me? You can't prove that I gave it away. Even if I was the only one you know you told it to. (Ideally, the third person would have installed a microphone and camera an the room, even without me knowing.)
Sue him? He didn't sign any NDA.
It's just as with laws. It's forbidden to murder people. Yet it happens every single day.
NDAs. Pfff....
I've got a great trick to take the wind out of potential idea stealers' sails.
Tell them right from the beginning, that there are already many many people out there working on it (in partial secrecy), and that you started early, so you got an advantage. But if others wanted to enter now, they would have got not the slightest chance, because it's already way too late.
This makes people stop thinking about if they could do this too instantly. And the later it gets, the less hope will remain in their heads.
It works great every single time. ^^
Of course, if you're really evil, you can tell that to others presenting their ideas to you! And then pursue their idea yourself. ^^ ;)
But this only works, if they don't know that trick themselves.
(So don't try it on me, because I can get more evil than you could ever imagine, in such cases.