Comment Re:I tested it in beta (Score 1) 106
That has slightly more latency than actual Ethernet though
That has slightly more latency than actual Ethernet though
What are you talking about?
The streaming functionality is obviously more interesting when a windows-host is involved, so one can stream a Windows-game to a Linux box (for example running SteamOS on a NUC), but Steam itself works perfectly fine on Linux as does a number of games.
What "trick" are you talking about?
OK, so "there has been no significant correlation between successful strikes and a reduction in al-Qaeda attacks".
Am I the only one thinking things might have been much worse if no terrorist leaders had been taken out at all?
I can't believe this claim.
I bet they did this a decade ago, and this article is just a way to make people believe it hasn't actually happened yet
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The major flaw in this assumption is the simple fact that swapping tickets in order to cheat the system and use cheaper tickets is not "arbitrage" nor is it "exploiting price differences for the same asset".
The tickets ("assets") are obviously not the same when you switch them, and get away with using other tickets than you really should have.
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The difference is that licenses for pharmaceuticals, driving, etc all have some benefit to the public good. Whether that be not including arsenic in your pills or knowing which side of the road to drive on, it is beneficial for society to have you be licensed (also, those licenses are almost exclusively granted or required by the GOVERNMENT and do not really enter in to the discussion). Another way of viewing this is that those license grant an expansion of rights (or a privelege) normally restricted for the common good. Software licenses do not follow this analogy.
I believe they do. They are a mechanism to facilitate (limited) sales and the economic aspects of immaterial property - which are all regulated and enforced by the laws of society. Or in other words: immaterial property, licenses, and financial transactions are the three components of "software license sales" and they are provided/enforced by society because politicians believe they provide a benefit to society.
but I sure as heck can sell the license and the 'physical' bits that go with it as long as they are transferred to the new owner (i.e. I no longer have them).
First of all the fact that you "no longer have them" is not a transfer. A transfer is only possible if the license or local law grants you the right to do so. In the case of DVDs and Sodastream canisters I am confident local law grants you the right to pass them on. But do not mistake the ability to physically transfer an object for an actual "right" to transfer any licenses.
Digital makes this all quite convoluted, but if these were physical BD/DVD/CDs, no one would bat an eyelash (cf. music CDs, console games) because the license is more obvious when accompanied by a physical item.
Yes and no. I am pretty sure the only reason BD/DVD/CDs can be transferred us because local law grants consumers that right. But that is not the case with all things. For example, if you buy a license - including a DVD and a pile of manuals - for some advanced software, then the license to use that software may not be transferable to other users. This is common with lots of software like database applications, media editing suites, software development tools, server software, etc. The fact that physical media and manuals accompany the product is not sufficient to grant you the right to transfer the license UNLESS laws specifically grant you that right.
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No reason to be rude dude. English is not my first language, and in other languages it is absolutely possible to use the word "buy" and "purchase" about the services provided by a driving school.
You can (at least in other languages) also "get a drivers license from your parents" at your 18th birthday, yet nobody would interpret in a way suggesting that your parents actually issued or produced that license themselves - they just paid for your education.
For your information: I don't have a formal education, and I have fought hard for every proficiency and every job I have ever had. I have no Idea why you feel the need to bash other people like that
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I specifically stated that understanding these things and liking them are two completely different things. So no, you guessed wrong.
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Thanks man
But for the record: FUCK BETA!
So
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I am pretty sure the driver of a taxi needs to have a special license to drive with passengers in a commercial capacity; not just a standard drivers license.
You may have the ability to transfer the vehicles license to be used as a taxi (which is really just a monopoly enforced by local organizations and created by lobbyists hundreds of years ago) but you can't transfer the drivers license to commercially transport passengers. He/she will need to get that by other means; separately from the vehicles license to be used for transporting passengers.
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It is buying a non-transferable digital copy, subject to the terms of the license.
For the record: I am against this way of licensing things, but to claim people do not understand the concept of a non-transferable license on
As I said in my original post: We may not like the way this works, but that is an entirely different story.
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Most people - including you I suspect - understand the concept of software licenses, and understand that when they are "buying a game" they are buying the ability to use/play that game, but not the full rights to the game itself.
When you "buy" a physical DVD in a store you also don't "buy" the movie, there are many many restrictions put on a DVD sold for private use. You can't pay 10 bucks for a DVD and then use that to legally sell 100 more.
The restrictions are not the same for downloaded software and physical DVDs but there are restrictions on both. Most people do understand that they're buying "the ability to watch the DVD in their private home", and they're certainly not calling retailers "fraudulent" because their DVD is heavily restricted.
I understand you're trying to make an argument; but your black/white definition is better used if we're discussing boolean algebra. Which we aren't
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It is not fraudulent; but as I said: we may not like the way things work.
In which case the best thing to do is work to change the system by either joining political lobby groups, supporting FOSS, etc.
I don't think you can claim that anyone on
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My apologies then. English is not my first language.
It is quite common in other languages to use the words "buy" or "purchase" in the context of the services provided by a driving school.
It is also (at least in other languages) possible for young people to "get a drivers license as a gift" at their 16th or 18th birthday; yet nobody takes this as a sign that the giver of such gift (parents usually) are actually the ones issuing the license. For example, a youngster may say "I got a drivers license from my dad for my birthday" or "my mom bought/gave me a drivers license".
Do you have no such similar sentences in English?
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A shame you posted as AC, I would have gladly engaged in that debate with you.
I don't think those two are really mutually exclusive, because the poster I replied to by all probability already knows and understands this but chooses to ignore that knowledge. I am confident the poster is well aware of how licenses work, but actively chooses to ignore that knowledge in order to - at the same time - claim that using the words "buy" or "sell" is akin to fraudulent advertising. This creates the inner conflict and misunderstanding.
I don't think any sane person would claim that a poster on
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Elliptic paraboloids for sale.
