No, it's not. Information that was not carried to the binaries cannot ever be recovered, without actually *having* the source. You can disassemble it, but that won't be the same as having the original source code.
This is kind of a stupid post. It wouldn't be stupid if you just didn't happen to know it. But to correct someone by saying something so blatantly wrong, that's stupid.
Is that why I have two loyalty cards on my keyring and three more in my wallet?"
Albertson's over here in AZ for years advertised thier Bonus Buy program, where you get the discounts without having to carry around their card. This past month they added a bonus card program, ensuring anyone who didn't fill out a form would get ripped off.
If that isn't customer betrayal, I don't know what is. Now I'm less inclined to shop there than at places that have had cards all along (plus they're a little bit more expensive, either way).
In vim, vi, and vi's predecessor, the line editor ed. And in the core Unix API, and perl...
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For my one serious use of an image editor, Gimp came in handy because the Script-Fu that came with it turned out to be just what I needed to make a cool site. http://www.phy.nau.edu/ uses the StarBurst script-fu. Not something I would have had with Photoshop.
But yeah, any user with really high demands on image editing would want photoshop, because it has 16-bit support, better color tools, etc.
Python-fu sounds sweet. I love Python. First-class functions in a programming language with quick and dirty syntax.
If you're going to do something other than what would generally be expected, don't. It makes for a frustrating experience- even for advanced users.
Exactly! Emacs and Scite and many other advanced, pretty-printing text-editors piss off advanced users all the time. I think a better policy would be:
If auto-indent is set, when the user presses return, have the indentation of the new line be the indentation of the previous line, unless the user is inside parens (in Java/C/C++/Ada/Pascal/etc.), and in that case, make the indentation line be x off of the first non-whitespace character beyond the opening parens (where x is set by the user, and by default one).
That way, if the user wants to change indentation, the program will let them. Otherwise it leaves it the same. So you won't have to tell the program whether you want your case statements to look like this:
switch x { case 1:
dosomething; break; case 2:
dosomething; break; case default:
dosomething; }
or this:
switch x {
case 1:
dosomething; break;
case 2:
dosomething; break;
default:
dosomething; }
Basically what I want are well-thought out user interfaces.
Maybe I could have picked a better example. Napoleon?
Plus, I was suggesting that you shouldn't assume that he has the motive/worldview that the conquerors have. The way you wrote your response implies that you didn't even read it.
I don't think picking a "loaded" example makes my argument fallacious. It just means that I could have picked an example that wouldn't have caused the discussion to be sidetracked into something entirely different. I was talking about the power aspect, not the violence aspect.
I'm from Flagstaff, Arizona where Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory. So I'm a little biased;)
Of course I want Pluto to still be called a planet. I think that changing its status at this point would annoy a lot of people.
Of course, the right thing to do would be to call it the thing that scientifically makes the most sense. But if the answer were to stop calling it a planet, that would be heart-breaking.
Now that is funny. But does invading two countries really make you conclude that Bush wants to invade the world, making it into one country, like Hitler?
As for the verdict, having things go through courts all over the nation has good and bad consequences. Sure, the fine is a Good Thing because Microsoft deserves to be fined, since they ripped people off and have engaged in unfair, illegal competitive practices, and W's administration did not allow them to be brought to justice. But Microsoft, at the same time, is using international courts in its assault against Lindows (aka Lin----), which I would say is a Bad Thing.
I was just recycling an old joke. There is absolutely no reason to believe that Apple is going away.
But there is also absolutely no reason to believe that Apple will have more than ten per cent of the personal computer or server marketshare. Even if they have a product that's in high demand, they always seem to fall behind on shipments (G5 XServe).
Yeah, but in Perl they do more than just serve as a reminder. They actually have different meanings ($_ and $1 are related, but they mean different things)
Yeah, that's pretty rich. My dad is VP of a construction company and I worked there for a summer, and signs or not, the slightest safety concerns, they're liable for. That means holding the shovel while you're working, and storing it in your vehicle while you're not, because someone might wander onto the construction site, step on the metal part of the shovel, and have the handle hit them in the face. People are stupid.
Yeah, this is one of the things I hated about file sharing, that eventually got me to the point of not even bothering anymore. The download directory was shared by default, so there were all kinds of crap files.
I took the time to create a shared directory that was separate from the download directory, and setting sharing only for the shared directory, and not for the download directory. But my network connection was crap so I only gave maybe a hundred or so whole files all the time I was sharing anyway.
Well, now that we've got the insult out of the way, how are software pirates supposed to be responsible for you not making any money? Have you ever made anything worth selling?
And no amount of lying is going to change the facts. Your software is spyware. It sends the IP address in such a way that explicitly or by reference it contains the fact that the user downloaded a file - information that the user did not authorize to be sent to you or to be posted to the network.
If this were done within the confines of the browser it would be one thing - but it is a reasonable expectation that these files don't phone home.
My friend uses P2P only to download episodes of classic or cancelled TV shows, such as MST3K and Clone High. Now this is what I call legitimate use of it. But the MPAA/RIAA would rather this doesn't happen - and try to stop it. The fact that old works of art could be utterly destroyed and unviewable by future generations doesn't bother them one bit.
He buys his CD's, DVD's, and Video Games from the store just like every one else. Except for CD's. He's boycotting the RIAA. For the one CD he's absolutely had to have, he had his brother burn him a copy, which is fair use. (He isn't an indie music fan)
I personally don't use P2P. All of the stuff I need I can get off the web. And I buy my CD's used, and rip them.
Wordperfect on Linux is. Wordperfect on Windows isn't very popular, but it's not obscure. Most HP's ship with a Trial Version. My parents got an HP off the shelf, and it came with it. Couldn't convince them to have me build their computer, now they have a computer full of adware and spyware.
As be-fan informed us, this is just a rumor. Anyone who believed what I said is no better than I am for believing the poster I heard it from, except for not spreading it.
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my bad. www.physics.nau.edu. I would have thought that I would know.
This is kind of a stupid post. It wouldn't be stupid if you just didn't happen to know it. But to correct someone by saying something so blatantly wrong, that's stupid.
Albertson's over here in AZ for years advertised thier Bonus Buy program, where you get the discounts without having to carry around their card. This past month they added a bonus card program, ensuring anyone who didn't fill out a form would get ripped off.
If that isn't customer betrayal, I don't know what is. Now I'm less inclined to shop there than at places that have had cards all along (plus they're a little bit more expensive, either way).
In vim, vi, and vi's predecessor, the line editor ed. And in the core Unix API, and perl...
But yeah, any user with really high demands on image editing would want photoshop, because it has 16-bit support, better color tools, etc.
Python-fu sounds sweet. I love Python. First-class functions in a programming language with quick and dirty syntax.
Because it's better than Tk. And Motif.
'nuff said.
If you're going to do something other than what would generally be expected, don't. It makes for a frustrating experience- even for advanced users.
Exactly! Emacs and Scite and many other advanced, pretty-printing text-editors piss off advanced users all the time. I think a better policy would be:
If auto-indent is set, when the user presses return, have the indentation of the new line be the indentation of the previous line, unless the user is inside parens (in Java/C/C++/Ada/Pascal/etc.), and in that case, make the indentation line be x off of the first non-whitespace character beyond the opening parens (where x is set by the user, and by default one).
That way, if the user wants to change indentation, the program will let them. Otherwise it leaves it the same. So you won't have to tell the program whether you want your case statements to look like this:
switch x {
case 1:
dosomething; break;
case 2:
dosomething; break;
case default:
dosomething;
}
or this:
switch x {
case 1:
dosomething; break;
case 2:
dosomething; break;
default:
dosomething;
}
Basically what I want are well-thought out user interfaces.
Plus, I was suggesting that you shouldn't assume that he has the motive/worldview that the conquerors have. The way you wrote your response implies that you didn't even read it.
I don't think picking a "loaded" example makes my argument fallacious. It just means that I could have picked an example that wouldn't have caused the discussion to be sidetracked into something entirely different. I was talking about the power aspect, not the violence aspect.
Of course I want Pluto to still be called a planet. I think that changing its status at this point would annoy a lot of people.
Of course, the right thing to do would be to call it the thing that scientifically makes the most sense. But if the answer were to stop calling it a planet, that would be heart-breaking.
Also, you are a pro-Apple troll. I wish the Apple zealots would just get off Slashdot and find other ways to have to "play" with their machines.
As for the verdict, having things go through courts all over the nation has good and bad consequences. Sure, the fine is a Good Thing because Microsoft deserves to be fined, since they ripped people off and have engaged in unfair, illegal competitive practices, and W's administration did not allow them to be brought to justice. But Microsoft, at the same time, is using international courts in its assault against Lindows (aka Lin----), which I would say is a Bad Thing.
But there is also absolutely no reason to believe that Apple will have more than ten per cent of the personal computer or server marketshare. Even if they have a product that's in high demand, they always seem to fall behind on shipments (G5 XServe).
Maybe if he stole a million dollars that he didn't plan on giving back.
8. Apple is dead.
No, actually *you* wrote four words. "It's" is one word.
Yeah, but in Perl they do more than just serve as a reminder. They actually have different meanings ($_ and $1 are related, but they mean different things)
Yeah, that's pretty rich. My dad is VP of a construction company and I worked there for a summer, and signs or not, the slightest safety concerns, they're liable for. That means holding the shovel while you're working, and storing it in your vehicle while you're not, because someone might wander onto the construction site, step on the metal part of the shovel, and have the handle hit them in the face. People are stupid.
I took the time to create a shared directory that was separate from the download directory, and setting sharing only for the shared directory, and not for the download directory. But my network connection was crap so I only gave maybe a hundred or so whole files all the time I was sharing anyway.
Well, now that we've got the insult out of the way, how are software pirates supposed to be responsible for you not making any money? Have you ever made anything worth selling?
And no amount of lying is going to change the facts. Your software is spyware. It sends the IP address in such a way that explicitly or by reference it contains the fact that the user downloaded a file - information that the user did not authorize to be sent to you or to be posted to the network.
If this were done within the confines of the browser it would be one thing - but it is a reasonable expectation that these files don't phone home.
Kill youselves. Do society a favor.
He buys his CD's, DVD's, and Video Games from the store just like every one else. Except for CD's. He's boycotting the RIAA. For the one CD he's absolutely had to have, he had his brother burn him a copy, which is fair use. (He isn't an indie music fan)
I personally don't use P2P. All of the stuff I need I can get off the web. And I buy my CD's used, and rip them.
Wordperfect on Linux is. Wordperfect on Windows isn't very popular, but it's not obscure. Most HP's ship with a Trial Version. My parents got an HP off the shelf, and it came with it. Couldn't convince them to have me build their computer, now they have a computer full of adware and spyware.
Good ol' OSS community.
% grep -r "Lesser General" xserver % grep -r "Library General" xserver % Sorry for the misinformation. Spread a rumor apparently started on /.
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