It's perfectly possible for someone to work out what is in a soft drink, just as it is possible for someone to work out what is in a CD player.
A recipe is more than just a list of ingredients.
You'd make a pretty crappy pie crust, for instance, if you didn't know to knead the dough. There are some deep sea creatures that produce a slime that turns out to be a powerful glue. Nobody knows how, and just examining the glue isn't enough.
If somebody knew how to make a drink taste just like Coke they'd do it.
Actually, reverse engineering is legal in the sense of stepping through instructions and watching everything or even decompiling
I don't think this is right. What would be the purpose of a clean room, with engineers who've never seen the source, if they then sit right down and decompile?
Reverse engineering would be sending in a message and seeing what comes out, then making your thing produce the same output for a given input.
I didn't say it was a nice thing to swallow, but it is probably in this case the best thing
Once you give it up you don't get it back. So, you can resist and resist and resist, but if eventually you shrug your shoulders and say "well, this time I guess it's ok..." then that's one more bit of freedom you've surrendered, until one you realize you've none left to give. And then it's too damn late.
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Thanks, Pete. That was pretty damned stupid of me. A slip like that can be fatal on/.:)
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I was a little disappointed to see you'd subsequently spelled it correctly, as I was fittin' to come up with something real clever-like involving exceptions.
reminds me of what happened during the invasion of Kuwait. Protests were organized saying "No blood for oil," then when the protest was over they got in their cars and drove home.
The quote is completely reasonable. It says the part that would permit lichens and agae to survive would take 100 years. It goes on to say that it would take a lot longer for the oxygen levels to increase to where humans could survive.
I was going to make some wise-ass comment about an uncaught exception, until I saw that a couple of words later he spelled it correctly.
So, it obviously was a slip, not ignorance.
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Oh no, I'm no goin' for that one. You're not gettin' me to go lookin' through no non-existent maps.
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Their - Belonging to them
There - A place that is not here
Thar - She blows.
Pete
A recipe is more than just a list of ingredients. You'd make a pretty crappy pie crust, for instance, if you didn't know to knead the dough. There are some deep sea creatures that produce a slime that turns out to be a powerful glue. Nobody knows how, and just examining the glue isn't enough.
If somebody knew how to make a drink taste just like Coke they'd do it.
Pete
Pete
Pete
I don't think this is right. What would be the purpose of a clean room, with engineers who've never seen the source, if they then sit right down and decompile?
Reverse engineering would be sending in a message and seeing what comes out, then making your thing produce the same output for a given input.
Pete
Pete
Pete
Once you give it up you don't get it back. So, you can resist and resist and resist, but if eventually you shrug your shoulders and say "well, this time I guess it's ok..." then that's one more bit of freedom you've surrendered, until one you realize you've none left to give. And then it's too damn late.
Pete
Whadaya mean? They're worth eleven.
(Or one, if eleven would put you over 21.)
Pete
Come on, these ideas are interesting when you're about twelve.
Pete
Next week do we find out what Barney Fife thinks about law enforcement?
Pete
Turns out it's pretty damn dull and uninteresting.
Pete
I was a little disappointed to see you'd subsequently spelled it correctly, as I was fittin' to come up with something real clever-like involving exceptions.
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Pete
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Pete
You really checked to see if air was attracted to magnets?
Pete
Yeah, especially in my shower.
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Pete
Quebecer? You realize you're only a b-e-c away from being, well, you know.
Pete
BTW, I've now bookmarked your site. I like it.
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And it won't catch on until Apple incorporates it as standard equipment, like with USB.
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