Companies like Microsoft and Sun have always provided easily de-compiled languages for others to use, and not used them themselves.
(The links provided are just the first listed for the searches ".NET De-compile" and "Java De-compile". There are many de-compilers, and the ones linked are not necessarily the best.)
Not only that, each version of MS Office is incompatible with itself.
I don't normally use MS Word, but I've heard stories, and recently it happened to me. I worked for several hours on an MS Word document, and MS Word gave an error message that said there was something wrong with the file, that only it had touched. MS Word refused to go further.
Luckily I had read about the solution. I opened the MS Word file in Open Office and saved it in MS Word format. After that the file would open in MS Word again.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
Exactly correct. The load of a computer power supply is NOT purely resistive, so the power is dependent on the phase. An ammeter and voltmeter are useless for this measurement.
Cheap Power meter: P3 International's P4400. Everyone who has more than 4 computers on at the same time should have one. LOL. Less than $30.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
Also, is it legal to charge for EnterpriseDB in the way they do? They've made the price list a graphic so it cannot be easily quoted.
Note that they are restricting free use to 1 CPU, 4 GB of data, and 1 GB of memory. I believe there is a free version of Oracle that is similarly restricted.
EnterpriseDB is a variant of PostgreSQL that is "compatible with most Oracle applications".
How does it compare with Oracle? Is it really a clone in most features?
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
It's sad. At 17, most people are creating a first post, and others are making the world a better place.
Off topic: World Trade Center building 7 fell in exactly the same exactly symmetrical way
as WTC 1 and 2, and it was NOT hit by an airplane. ALL the collapses looked
like controlled demolitions. See the news footage in the movie Loose
Change. It is a work in progress, but already very informative.
From the article you cited: "... all available evidence suggests that bin
Laden was never funded, trained or armed by the CIA."
That is my understanding, after considerable reading. AND... it is not
relevant.
Osama
bin Laden did not need money or arms. He had millions of dollars of his own
money; he was extremely wealthy and had connections with other extremely
wealthy people who wanted to fund his ideas.
Here's part of what the CIA gave bin Laden, perhaps completely
indirectly:
A deep understanding of how to be an efficient terrorist: What bin Laden needed was the CIA's manuals that tell how to be a terrorist. There was a news story about an
Arab terrorist manual that had been found, and some of the text was quoted.
The U.S. government stopped the quoting. However, before it was stopped, it
was completely obvious that the original language of the terrorist manual was
certainly not Arab and it seemed obvious to me that it was American English.
Jobless people trained in violence: When the U.S. government's
largely secret support for aggression against Russia was finished, all those
trained in violence and CIA terrorist methods needed work. Their resumes did
not support getting jobs as rug merchants; all they knew was violence. That
was the CIA's second biggest contribution to OBL: A huge group of people
trained in and looking for violence.
Followers who hated U.S. government interference and violence:
Other incidents of what the CIA calls "Blowback" provided strong reasons
to hate U.S. government intervention. Also, many people in the U.S. government
have a difficult time understanding this, but Arabs don't like to be killed.
A huge cache of modern missiles and explosives: Sure, maybe
there was never a formal transfer of weapons to OBL, with contracts signed and
handshakes, but a huge number of weapons and a huge amount of weapons material were left, and
became available to OBL.
Watch a movie about 9/11:
No evidence of body part of Arabs was ever found. Some of the "Arab
terrorists" named by the U.S. government later were found to be alive and
working in Arab countries.
World Trade Center building 7 fell in exactly the same way as WTC 1
and 2, and it was NOT hit by an airplane. ALL the collapses looked exactly
like controlled demolitions.
Watch the interesting movie Loose
Change. It is a work in progress, but already very informative.
Exactly right. There was plenty of news about U.S. government support for Arab violence. It was definitely not a Secret with a big S.
But is was, effectively, a secret. The real meaning of U.S. government support for violence was not made clear to the American people. When the CIA stopped giving money for violence, those who had been trained in violence needed jobs. All they knew how to do was be violent, and that was not a good resume for a regular job. So, they looked around for other excuses for violence. The CIA calls that "Blowback". Blowback is seen by the CIA as a good thing, because it means more jobs and money and promotions for CIA people. The taxpayer funds what is, in effect, a partial overthrow of healthy government.
It's comparable to you working to fix your friend's computer, and you improve some problems with the computer, but while you are working on it you destroy his monitor. In any other field but secret government action, that would be seen as a failure.
The CIA releases information in a disconnected and uninformative way and then measures the impact with polls. The idea is to be a public as possible, without actually causing a true understanding.
U.S. citizens should not expect that ANY U.S. government secret agency
actually does what it is supposed to do. The secrecy allows the purpose to
drift off course, until it is the employees who determine what happens, not
the policy makers.
Government leaders, such as U.S. congressmen and women, are allowed to
know only the public relations information about the secret agencies, not
what is really happening. In the name of secrecy and covert operation, the
secret U.S. government agencies are allowed to lie. They place lies in
newspapers and magazines the same way other P.R. is placed.
A government that sometimes acts in secret cannot be said to be a
democratic government, because the citizens cannot supervise what they don't
know.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
May I point out an exception to that "rule"? The SCO Group would love to send a terminator back to remove Pamela Jones before she started groklaw.net
Top Ten signs your court cases are going badly:
10 you have a blog posting every (public) detail of the case
09 This includes all of your FTC filings
08 You have hacked off two judges
07 and they are talking with each other.
06 The guy that cowrote the book on the language says you have no case.
05 The guy you paid says you have no case.
04 The guy from 6 also worked on writing the OS you are talking about.
03 You are fighting IBM. [What about the mood???]
02 You are fighting Novell (and they want to Ebay your offices).
01 Bill's PIPE fairy just went on vacation and you are running out of money.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
Yes, it seems easier than SSH tunneling. What has been your experience with Hamachi?
UltraVNC is great for remote maintenance, but does not go around NAT routers very well, I understand. And, I've never been able to make the UltraVNC encryption work.
Who loves India and Hindus more? Someone who denies that there are serious
problems? Or, someone who tries to define those problems?
I think that I love India and Hindus more than you.
More issues:
The single biggest issue is that people in the U.S. abuse people in
India by hiring them and not giving them enough training, and not giving them
enough authority in the hiring company.
If hiring companies gave their employees in India enough training,
much of the cost saving would vanish. That's true of any situation in which
the cultural differences are as great as they are between the U.S. and Hindus.
I think the differences between the U.S. culture and the Tamil culture, for
example, are less of a problem.
Because of the very poor quality telephone support, people who never
thought about India, and could not find India on a map, now think that Indians
do their jobs very poorly. Enormous damage is being done to public relations
between India and the world.
Who loves India and Hindus more? Someone who denies that there are serious
problems? Or, someone who tries to define those problems?
I think that I love India and Hindus more than you.
More issues:
The single biggest issue is that people in the U.S. abuse people in
India by hiring them and not giving them enough training, and not giving them
enough authority in the hiring company.
If hiring companies gave their employees in India enough training,
much of the cost saving would vanish. That's true of any situation in which
the cultural differences are as great as they are between the U.S. and Hindus.
I think the differences between the U.S. culture and the Tamil culture, for
example, are less of a problem.
Because of the very poor quality telephone support, people who never
thought about India, and could not find India on a map, now think that Indians
do their jobs very poorly. Enormous damage is being done to public relations
between India and the world.
You said, "Anyone who outsources their critical business processes
is a fool."
ALL business processes are critical. I stopped doing business with
Citibank because they have a really terrible web site, and have not fixed it
in 6 years.
1) After you teach the Indian company how to write good software for your
industry, a relative of the owner of the Indian company will go into business
in competition with you.
2) It can easily be arranged that an Indian court will not convict.
What Indian juror can find against his or her neighbors?
3) All products require innovation. Indian programmers are not usually
innovative; it's not a quality of the Hindu culture.
4) No matter what the project plans say, programming requires
decision-making that affects the long term health of your product and your
company. How often does programming require far-reaching decision-making?
Possibly as often as once per hour.
5) People in India are amazingly poor for a reason. That reason may
(will) affect the work they do for you.
6) There's a big overhead in crossing cultural boundaries. On the
other hand, programmers in the U.S. may spend a lot of time playing video
games rather than learning social skills; there is a big barrier between
someone with low social skills and the normal world, also.
7) You may not notice the low quality of your product until it is too
late. That's why you outsourced, isn't it?: You wanted to avoid giving
attention to a critical area.
8) Non-technical managers know they cannot manage technical projects,
so they outsource to move the problems as far away as possible from
their area of responsibility. Often outsourcing is contracted by managers working against a
company, not for it. When your company begins failing, the managers who
avoided responsibility by outsourcing will get another job and tell their
friends and neighbors, "It was time to move on."
9) When you outsource, you avoid dealing with issues in your own country.
Eventually, with enough avoidance, your country will become less livable.
10) The Hindu culture prizes conformity to authority. If there is
something wrong, Hindus would not feel comfortable telling their bosses.
11) Do not think you can magically avoid Hindu self-defeat; you have
only to visit India for a few days to learn that they are masters at
self-defeat. People in the U.S. are professionals at self-defeat; they voted
for George W. Bush and they voted to pay their own money to become involved
in a never-ending project of killing Iraqis. Amazingly, Hindus are even
more self-defeating than people in the United States.
12) It is often very difficult to see that your company is failing
until it is too late. Bad technical support causes hatred for your company and
hatred for your brand name. You probably will not notice the submarine of
dislike until it surfaces. Citibank, are you listening? No, you aren't.
13) Bonus reason! Remember, in the Hindu culture, the people in the
U.S. company are not a member of any caste. That means they are untouchables;
they are so socially inferior they are considered second-class human beings.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
I forgot to make my point. Comcast seems to block or slow or extinguish ALL traffic besides light browsing. It doesn't matter if it is BitTorrent or any other technology.
Comcast does a LOT of blocking. If you download more than Comcast wants you to download, you will find that new downloads are interrupted by the company's system, even if they are very small.
Comcast is a VERY aggressive company. Stay away if you possibly can. Every Comcast advertisement I've seen contains at least one sneaky statement.
-- Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis.
Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill
Iraqis. Improvement?
Slashdot Mirror
Companies like Microsoft and Sun have always provided easily de-compiled languages for others to use, and not used them themselves.
(The links provided are just the first listed for the searches ".NET De-compile" and "Java De-compile". There are many de-compilers, and the ones linked are not necessarily the best.)
--
Movie claims overthrow of the U.S. government: Loose Change, 2nd Edition.
"MS Office is already incompatible with itself."
Not only that, each version of MS Office is incompatible with itself.
I don't normally use MS Word, but I've heard stories, and recently it happened to me. I worked for several hours on an MS Word document, and MS Word gave an error message that said there was something wrong with the file, that only it had touched. MS Word refused to go further.
Luckily I had read about the solution. I opened the MS Word file in Open Office and saved it in MS Word format. After that the file would open in MS Word again.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
More info: P3's web page. The only model is for 115 volts.
Interesting company: One of the products is a Voice Changer.
Exactly correct. The load of a computer power supply is NOT purely resistive, so the power is dependent on the phase. An ammeter and voltmeter are useless for this measurement.
Compiere uses Oracle. Does it work with EnterpriseDB?
Cheap Power meter: P3 International's P4400. Everyone who has more than 4 computers on at the same time should have one. LOL. Less than $30.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
Also, is it legal to charge for EnterpriseDB in the way they do? They've made the price list a graphic so it cannot be easily quoted.
Note that they are restricting free use to 1 CPU, 4 GB of data, and 1 GB of memory. I believe there is a free version of Oracle that is similarly restricted.
EnterpriseDB is a variant of PostgreSQL that is "compatible with most Oracle applications".
How does it compare with Oracle? Is it really a clone in most features?
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
It's sad. At 17, most people are creating a first post, and others are making the world a better place.
Off topic: World Trade Center building 7 fell in exactly the same exactly symmetrical way as WTC 1 and 2, and it was NOT hit by an airplane. ALL the collapses looked like controlled demolitions. See the news footage in the movie Loose Change. It is a work in progress, but already very informative.
From the article you cited: "... all available evidence suggests that bin Laden was never funded, trained or armed by the CIA."
That is my understanding, after considerable reading. AND... it is not relevant.
Osama bin Laden did not need money or arms. He had millions of dollars of his own money; he was extremely wealthy and had connections with other extremely wealthy people who wanted to fund his ideas.
Here's part of what the CIA gave bin Laden, perhaps completely indirectly:
A deep understanding of how to be an efficient terrorist: What bin Laden needed was the CIA's manuals that tell how to be a terrorist. There was a news story about an Arab terrorist manual that had been found, and some of the text was quoted. The U.S. government stopped the quoting. However, before it was stopped, it was completely obvious that the original language of the terrorist manual was certainly not Arab and it seemed obvious to me that it was American English.
Jobless people trained in violence: When the U.S. government's largely secret support for aggression against Russia was finished, all those trained in violence and CIA terrorist methods needed work. Their resumes did not support getting jobs as rug merchants; all they knew was violence. That was the CIA's second biggest contribution to OBL: A huge group of people trained in and looking for violence.
Followers who hated U.S. government interference and violence: Other incidents of what the CIA calls "Blowback" provided strong reasons to hate U.S. government intervention. Also, many people in the U.S. government have a difficult time understanding this, but Arabs don't like to be killed.
A huge cache of modern missiles and explosives: Sure, maybe there was never a formal transfer of weapons to OBL, with contracts signed and handshakes, but a huge number of weapons and a huge amount of weapons material were left, and became available to OBL.
Watch a movie about 9/11:
No evidence of body part of Arabs was ever found. Some of the "Arab terrorists" named by the U.S. government later were found to be alive and working in Arab countries.
World Trade Center building 7 fell in exactly the same way as WTC 1 and 2, and it was NOT hit by an airplane. ALL the collapses looked exactly like controlled demolitions.
Watch the interesting movie Loose Change. It is a work in progress, but already very informative.
Exactly right. There was plenty of news about U.S. government support for Arab violence. It was definitely not a Secret with a big S.
But is was, effectively, a secret. The real meaning of U.S. government support for violence was not made clear to the American people. When the CIA stopped giving money for violence, those who had been trained in violence needed jobs. All they knew how to do was be violent, and that was not a good resume for a regular job. So, they looked around for other excuses for violence. The CIA calls that "Blowback". Blowback is seen by the CIA as a good thing, because it means more jobs and money and promotions for CIA people. The taxpayer funds what is, in effect, a partial overthrow of healthy government.
It's comparable to you working to fix your friend's computer, and you improve some problems with the computer, but while you are working on it you destroy his monitor. In any other field but secret government action, that would be seen as a failure.
The CIA releases information in a disconnected and uninformative way and then measures the impact with polls. The idea is to be a public as possible, without actually causing a true understanding.
Quote from the Slashdot story: "In another blow to the reputation of the agency that just can't seem to get anything right..."
That depends on the definition of "right". CIA employees get more money and promotions if there is more trouble in the world. So, they make trouble. For example, the CIA trained Osama bin Laden and other Arabs in the techniques of terrorism.
U.S. citizens should not expect that ANY U.S. government secret agency actually does what it is supposed to do. The secrecy allows the purpose to drift off course, until it is the employees who determine what happens, not the policy makers.
Government leaders, such as U.S. congressmen and women, are allowed to know only the public relations information about the secret agencies, not what is really happening. In the name of secrecy and covert operation, the secret U.S. government agencies are allowed to lie. They place lies in newspapers and magazines the same way other P.R. is placed.
A government that sometimes acts in secret cannot be said to be a democratic government, because the citizens cannot supervise what they don't know.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
The problem with limiting right to speak is that any hate goes underground, where it can't be monitored.
Another problem is that who does the limiting and who sets the limits is always political, and always somewhat arbitrary.
Microsoft has always had a socially clueless side.
Sheesh. I fixed it:
May I point out an exception to that "rule"? The SCO Group would love to send a terminator back to remove Pamela Jones before she started groklaw.net
Top Ten signs your court cases are going badly:
10 you have a blog posting every (public) detail of the case
09 This includes all of your FTC filings
08 You have hacked off two judges
07 and they are talking with each other.
06 The guy that cowrote the book on the language says you have no case.
05 The guy you paid says you have no case.
04 The guy from 6 also worked on writing the OS you are talking about.
03 You are fighting IBM. [What about the mood???]
02 You are fighting Novell (and they want to Ebay your offices).
01 Bill's PIPE fairy just went on vacation and you are running out of money.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
Is Hamachi a security risk?
Two reasons:
1) Netflix is a LOT more convenient than going to a theater, and a LOT less expensive.
2) Most movies have low thought content, and just aren't very much fun to watch.
Yes, it seems easier than SSH tunneling. What has been your experience with Hamachi?
UltraVNC is great for remote maintenance, but does not go around NAT routers very well, I understand. And, I've never been able to make the UltraVNC encryption work.
I haven't tried it, but what about Hamachi?
UltraVNC is the best VNC, in my experience.
--
Loose Change. Interesting free movie.
Who loves India and Hindus more? Someone who denies that there are serious problems? Or, someone who tries to define those problems?
I think that I love India and Hindus more than you.
More issues:
The single biggest issue is that people in the U.S. abuse people in India by hiring them and not giving them enough training, and not giving them enough authority in the hiring company.
If hiring companies gave their employees in India enough training, much of the cost saving would vanish. That's true of any situation in which the cultural differences are as great as they are between the U.S. and Hindus. I think the differences between the U.S. culture and the Tamil culture, for example, are less of a problem.
Because of the very poor quality telephone support, people who never thought about India, and could not find India on a map, now think that Indians do their jobs very poorly. Enormous damage is being done to public relations between India and the world.
Who loves India and Hindus more? Someone who denies that there are serious problems? Or, someone who tries to define those problems?
I think that I love India and Hindus more than you.
More issues:
The single biggest issue is that people in the U.S. abuse people in India by hiring them and not giving them enough training, and not giving them enough authority in the hiring company.
If hiring companies gave their employees in India enough training, much of the cost saving would vanish. That's true of any situation in which the cultural differences are as great as they are between the U.S. and Hindus. I think the differences between the U.S. culture and the Tamil culture, for example, are less of a problem.
Because of the very poor quality telephone support, people who never thought about India, and could not find India on a map, now think that Indians do their jobs very poorly. Enormous damage is being done to public relations between India and the world.
You said, "Anyone who outsources their critical business processes is a fool."
ALL business processes are critical. I stopped doing business with Citibank because they have a really terrible web site, and have not fixed it in 6 years.
1) After you teach the Indian company how to write good software for your industry, a relative of the owner of the Indian company will go into business in competition with you.
2) It can easily be arranged that an Indian court will not convict. What Indian juror can find against his or her neighbors?
3) All products require innovation. Indian programmers are not usually innovative; it's not a quality of the Hindu culture.
4) No matter what the project plans say, programming requires decision-making that affects the long term health of your product and your company. How often does programming require far-reaching decision-making? Possibly as often as once per hour.
5) People in India are amazingly poor for a reason. That reason may (will) affect the work they do for you.
6) There's a big overhead in crossing cultural boundaries. On the other hand, programmers in the U.S. may spend a lot of time playing video games rather than learning social skills; there is a big barrier between someone with low social skills and the normal world, also.
7) You may not notice the low quality of your product until it is too late. That's why you outsourced, isn't it?: You wanted to avoid giving attention to a critical area.
8) Non-technical managers know they cannot manage technical projects, so they outsource to move the problems as far away as possible from their area of responsibility. Often outsourcing is contracted by managers working against a company, not for it. When your company begins failing, the managers who avoided responsibility by outsourcing will get another job and tell their friends and neighbors, "It was time to move on."
9) When you outsource, you avoid dealing with issues in your own country. Eventually, with enough avoidance, your country will become less livable.
10) The Hindu culture prizes conformity to authority. If there is something wrong, Hindus would not feel comfortable telling their bosses.
11) Do not think you can magically avoid Hindu self-defeat; you have only to visit India for a few days to learn that they are masters at self-defeat. People in the U.S. are professionals at self-defeat; they voted for George W. Bush and they voted to pay their own money to become involved in a never-ending project of killing Iraqis. Amazingly, Hindus are even more self-defeating than people in the United States.
12) It is often very difficult to see that your company is failing until it is too late. Bad technical support causes hatred for your company and hatred for your brand name. You probably will not notice the submarine of dislike until it surfaces. Citibank, are you listening? No, you aren't.
13) Bonus reason! Remember, in the Hindu culture, the people in the U.S. company are not a member of any caste. That means they are untouchables; they are so socially inferior they are considered second-class human beings.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?
I forgot to make my point. Comcast seems to block or slow or extinguish ALL traffic besides light browsing. It doesn't matter if it is BitTorrent or any other technology.
Comcast does a LOT of blocking. If you download more than Comcast wants you to download, you will find that new downloads are interrupted by the company's system, even if they are very small.
Comcast is a VERY aggressive company. Stay away if you possibly can. Every Comcast advertisement I've seen contains at least one sneaky statement.
--
Before, Saddam got Iraq oil profits & paid part to kill Iraqis. Now a few Americans share Iraq oil profits, & U.S. citizens pay to kill Iraqis. Improvement?