26tb for personal space is still pretty ridiculous by todays standards. I'm willing to bet the average personal space people have is no higher than 4tb.
Who the hell cares who wrote the book at that point? Some people seriously don't think about the consequences of a no copyright no patent environment. If there was absolutely no copyright or patents, the moment someone low in the food chain comes up with something, he can't do anything with it without risking losing it forever. What the hell incentive does he have to anything with it? What the hell reason does anyone have to invest in R&D when someone can just jump in and take the final result and run with it? Do you think we as a people will seriously go "Well they came up with it first, so I'm going to buy their product" when the competitor is offering the same thing at a drastically lower price since they don't have the price of the past R&D to consider?
Yes, patents are abused and the system is currently absurd. Yes, copyright is abused and the system is currently absurd. (90+ year terms? Come on now.) But removing the systems completely instead of making them better makes no goddamn sense.
Because not everyone needs or even wants a top tier 3D engine to make a game? Torque was designed to be extremely easy to use and newbie friendly, while still powerful. id Tech 3/4 is most assuredly not.
Also, I know people hate on commercial software but the GPL version of id Tech 3 is just that. GPL. You can't make commercial closed-source games (spare the "why would you want to do that" comments please) with it unless you buy a commercial license.
Do you really honestly think the ability to self-fund a single prototype and the ability to self-fund a lot of finished products are even remotely the same thing? My god, man.
I can't believe people are getting hung up on the renders rule. All they want is people to stop publishing images of "finished products" that don't actually exist because people through either their own stupidity or being intentionally mislead think development is a lot further than it actually is and often find themselves in for massive disappointment and remorse. This has happened too many times now for Kickstarter to turn a blind eye.
People can post concept work. They just can't make it look like they have a finished product through high quality renders.
It's not even their motto. It was just an internal memo with a personal company mantra that got leaked. It's not as though Google has ever publicly pushed that "motto". I'm sure they regret that it even got out given how often it's used as some sort of confirmation that they're twisted liars.
That's generally what they do. If you're in a situation where it's forcefully removing them without giving you a chance to intervene then your policies are set weird. I've used several suites over the years, and all but one one merely brought up a message about such files and asked for my input.
Every FreeCause employee, from CEO Mike Jaconi on down, is learning JavaScript. Inspired by the dictate within its Japanese parent company Rakuten to have all its employees become fluent in English, Jaconi decided to have everyone, from himself down to the interns, learn to code.
Emphasis mine.
A Japanese firm having staff which are fluent in English is actually useful. It's a very common language around the world. There is almost no benefit to having an entire company that knows JavaScript, especially if they're not in coding roles. Sounds like the man just wanted to make headlines as a pioneer of some sort, regardless of the fact it makes him look stupid.
The reason that happens is likely due to the heuristics used to detect threats by the security tools outside the scope of the virus definitions. Those are the front line functions that are designed to (hopefully) catch bad code before the company even needs to send out a definition for it. When they detect a program is capable of doing certain things, they will get flagged with generic terms like that.
Lots of programs with things like auto-update functionality get similarly flagged, etc.
Such items have been flagged by security software for eons before Microsoft Security Essentials was even an idea in someones head at Redmond. Even if these things are flagged, it's easy enough to bypass unless your security policies are set to forcibly remove them without letting you intervene in any way and you lack the privileges to change this.
The point I'm making is security software flags keygens/cracks/etc by the fact that they're generally very "underground" and far more subjected to less than reputable "additions" than other software. It's a proven attack vector which are widely used, and therefore is more serious of a risk than other downloads. Any security software worth its salt should definitely flag these items. It is their job to find security risks and prevent them. You're trying to add an ulterior agenda to smart security practice.
They're very easy to avoid so it should be a minor nuisance at best.
Why in gods name do you attribute this only to Microsoft? It's standard practice because the source of these aren't trustworthy and they're moderately easy to detect. I doubt Microsoft gives two shits if you download a keygen for a video game, yet they will pretty much all be detected by such AV software, generally even free software not theoretically bound by corporate purse strings.
Christ, I can't read. I kept looking at the date and thinking "The hell? Tomorrow is the 20th. Are you from the future?" and then I see it's August 20th, not September. My god.
The only time I ever watch trailers anymore is in theaters. Trailers always seem to make a movie look extraordinarily epic, no matter how bad the movie ends up being, so it's an entertaining several minutes before the movie starts.
It's true that is all it would take for someone interested in finding out, but what is page 1 bunk always ends up being page 7 when debunked. People tend to remember the initial statement and not the corrections.
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I'm curious how they came to the conclusion Do Not Track didn't actually mean Track and instead meant Advertise.
I know that, but there's no good reason to have 90+ year copyright terms.
26tb for personal space is still pretty ridiculous by todays standards. I'm willing to bet the average personal space people have is no higher than 4tb.
Who the hell cares who wrote the book at that point? Some people seriously don't think about the consequences of a no copyright no patent environment. If there was absolutely no copyright or patents, the moment someone low in the food chain comes up with something, he can't do anything with it without risking losing it forever. What the hell incentive does he have to anything with it? What the hell reason does anyone have to invest in R&D when someone can just jump in and take the final result and run with it? Do you think we as a people will seriously go "Well they came up with it first, so I'm going to buy their product" when the competitor is offering the same thing at a drastically lower price since they don't have the price of the past R&D to consider?
Yes, patents are abused and the system is currently absurd. Yes, copyright is abused and the system is currently absurd. (90+ year terms? Come on now.) But removing the systems completely instead of making them better makes no goddamn sense.
Want to really send a message to Twitter against this policy? Stop using Twitter.
Because not everyone needs or even wants a top tier 3D engine to make a game? Torque was designed to be extremely easy to use and newbie friendly, while still powerful. id Tech 3/4 is most assuredly not.
Also, I know people hate on commercial software but the GPL version of id Tech 3 is just that. GPL. You can't make commercial closed-source games (spare the "why would you want to do that" comments please) with it unless you buy a commercial license.
Do you really honestly think the ability to self-fund a single prototype and the ability to self-fund a lot of finished products are even remotely the same thing? My god, man.
I can't believe people are getting hung up on the renders rule. All they want is people to stop publishing images of "finished products" that don't actually exist because people through either their own stupidity or being intentionally mislead think development is a lot further than it actually is and often find themselves in for massive disappointment and remorse. This has happened too many times now for Kickstarter to turn a blind eye.
People can post concept work. They just can't make it look like they have a finished product through high quality renders.
It's not even their motto. It was just an internal memo with a personal company mantra that got leaked. It's not as though Google has ever publicly pushed that "motto". I'm sure they regret that it even got out given how often it's used as some sort of confirmation that they're twisted liars.
That's generally what they do. If you're in a situation where it's forcefully removing them without giving you a chance to intervene then your policies are set weird. I've used several suites over the years, and all but one one merely brought up a message about such files and asked for my input.
FTA:
Every FreeCause employee, from CEO Mike Jaconi on down, is learning JavaScript. Inspired by the dictate within its Japanese parent company Rakuten to have all its employees become fluent in English, Jaconi decided to have everyone, from himself down to the interns, learn to code.
Emphasis mine.
A Japanese firm having staff which are fluent in English is actually useful. It's a very common language around the world. There is almost no benefit to having an entire company that knows JavaScript, especially if they're not in coding roles. Sounds like the man just wanted to make headlines as a pioneer of some sort, regardless of the fact it makes him look stupid.
Kids are more likely to quickly abandon things with steep learning curves.
The reason that happens is likely due to the heuristics used to detect threats by the security tools outside the scope of the virus definitions. Those are the front line functions that are designed to (hopefully) catch bad code before the company even needs to send out a definition for it. When they detect a program is capable of doing certain things, they will get flagged with generic terms like that.
Lots of programs with things like auto-update functionality get similarly flagged, etc.
Such items have been flagged by security software for eons before Microsoft Security Essentials was even an idea in someones head at Redmond. Even if these things are flagged, it's easy enough to bypass unless your security policies are set to forcibly remove them without letting you intervene in any way and you lack the privileges to change this.
The point I'm making is security software flags keygens/cracks/etc by the fact that they're generally very "underground" and far more subjected to less than reputable "additions" than other software. It's a proven attack vector which are widely used, and therefore is more serious of a risk than other downloads. Any security software worth its salt should definitely flag these items. It is their job to find security risks and prevent them. You're trying to add an ulterior agenda to smart security practice.
They're very easy to avoid so it should be a minor nuisance at best.
Wow. Just wow.
I doubt his success can really be attributed to that rule, but it is still a stupid rule.
You may be surprised what might be crawling around your machine right now.
Why in gods name do you attribute this only to Microsoft? It's standard practice because the source of these aren't trustworthy and they're moderately easy to detect. I doubt Microsoft gives two shits if you download a keygen for a video game, yet they will pretty much all be detected by such AV software, generally even free software not theoretically bound by corporate purse strings.
Christ, I can't read. I kept looking at the date and thinking "The hell? Tomorrow is the 20th. Are you from the future?" and then I see it's August 20th, not September. My god.
And?
Thank god my OCD doesn't force me to nitpick movie special effects.
The only time I ever watch trailers anymore is in theaters. Trailers always seem to make a movie look extraordinarily epic, no matter how bad the movie ends up being, so it's an entertaining several minutes before the movie starts.
Considering the apparent purpose for this, having foreign news seems like it would be a pointless addition.
It's true that is all it would take for someone interested in finding out, but what is page 1 bunk always ends up being page 7 when debunked. People tend to remember the initial statement and not the corrections.
I don't think they really care, either.
Was that supposed to be a relevant analogy?