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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:57:24 +0000 (UTC), tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>>> What remote object? I just plugged in my USB stick or spun the DVD in
>>> the drive.
>>
>> You said you wanted to move an object.
>   Files are rather special objects in that one often drastically changes
> the abstraction level at which they are viewed.  Is a movie on a DVD an
> object?

Yes

> How about the .vob files that contain the actual video?

No files

> If you
> want to do a virus scan on a .vob file, it's not a video file - it's
> a series of bytes.

I don't need to scan for viruses an object which single operation is play
(takes the device context as the second parameter).

Virus is a problem caused by lack of typing.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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