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Why do people call an executable file (.exe) a binary file?
jpanhalt:
--- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 12:27:00 pm ---Well, the generel consensus here appears to be the fact, that I am appearently to young to comment on this, where as you - the veterans - have used this term for ages, which makes it right. Just think about that statement, doesn't seem right, does it?
he meantime completely missing the point. While I just become a bigger and bigger snowflake.
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Didn't take long for you to play that card. Fact is, you seem to have a hard time understanding an abstraction, so you call it "stupid."
So far as I know, a file cannot be stupid. That's purely an animal trait and mostly applied to humans.
LeoTech:
--- Quote from: jpanhalt on April 25, 2020, 12:36:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 12:27:00 pm ---Well, the generel consensus here appears to be the fact, that I am appearently to young to comment on this, where as you - the veterans - have used this term for ages, which makes it right. Just think about that statement, doesn't seem right, does it?
he meantime completely missing the point. While I just become a bigger and bigger snowflake.
--- End quote ---
Didn't take long for you to play that card. Fact is, you seem to have a hard time understanding an abstraction, so you call it "stupid."
So far as I know, a file cannot be stupid. That's purely an animal trait and mostly applied to humans.
--- End quote ---
Considering people where questioning my age and told me that it had been so for a long time, it was a valid card, but I could counter, with it didn't took you long to point it out.;)
AFAIK I never called a file stupid, but rather what one might call that file for stupid. In other words, your point is completely irrelevant and doesn't bring anything to the table except implaying that I as a human may/could be stupid. Next time, don't start discussing semantics about something I never said. That's pointless.
(Which could imply, that you have a hard time understand what I mean.)
BravoV:
--- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 12:46:15 pm ---Considering people where questioning my age and told me that it had been so for a long time, it was a valid card, but I could counter, with it didn't took you long to point it out.;)
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Just wait few decades, that probably JPEG (.JPG) format is obsolete, and a cocky proud youngster shout out loud that why elders keep saying .JPG file is an image file, instead of a blob of binary file that needs extra trouble/effort to decode/view it at that time.
Brumby:
To the OP:
Pick one (or more) of the following:
* Troll
* Snowflake
* Pedant
* Childish
* Entitled
Please note: "Right" or any flavour thereof is not one of the options.
(I'd hate to see you on a discussion of current flow.)
rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 12:46:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: jpanhalt on April 25, 2020, 12:36:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 12:27:00 pm ---Well, the generel consensus here appears to be the fact, that I am appearently to young to comment on this, where as you - the veterans - have used this term for ages, which makes it right. Just think about that statement, doesn't seem right, does it?
he meantime completely missing the point. While I just become a bigger and bigger snowflake.
--- End quote ---
Didn't take long for you to play that card. Fact is, you seem to have a hard time understanding an abstraction, so you call it "stupid."
So far as I know, a file cannot be stupid. That's purely an animal trait and mostly applied to humans.
--- End quote ---
Considering people where questioning my age and told me that it had been so for a long time, it was a valid card, but I could counter, with it didn't took you long to point it out.;)
--- End quote ---
In my eyes the question about your age, which can at times be translated to inexperience on naïveté, came with the following assertive:
--- Quote from: LeoTech on April 25, 2020, 10:47:11 am ---Because if not, let's try to stop that misconception. And just call the exectables, which in my mind is a far more correct and usefull name.
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They way I read the first answers were people imparting their knowledge in a jokingly way. If you look around this forum, you will see lots of other similar threads with similar jokes and pokes.
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