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Comment Re:Sale by another name (Score 1) 82

That depends on where you live. In Europe you have

European Court of Justice ruled on July 3, 2012, that it is indeed permissible to resell software licenses even if the digital good has been downloaded directly from the Internet, and that the first-sale doctrine applied whenever software was originally sold to a customer for an unlimited amount of time, as such sale involves a transfer of ownership, thus prohibiting any software maker from preventing the resale of their software by any of their legitimate owners

In the United States the issue is working its way through the courts. Basically some courts are willing to call a spade a spade. And know a sale when they see one.

Comment Sale by another name (Score 1) 82

Chances are it was sold to them with a buy button and the description of the product was the product not the licence to the product. Chances are the payment was one time payment for permanent access to the copy. This is the definition of a sale. Calling a sale by another name does not change it from being a sale.

Comment Re:Supplant Niche (Score 1) 66

That is missing the point. At one time we lived in a world where people wondered when we would have personal communicators like in star trek. The fact that expensive cellphones existed that fit in brief case was not relavant. Pagers came closer to the dream. The dream was fufilled with those small flip phones. The artical could of easily been about why we don't have electric cars yet. Yes Tesla is building electric cars and yes electric car prototypes existed sinse the beginning of car design. But that is not the point. 99% of the worlds still uses fossil fuels. When do the masses get the electric car they were promissed in science fiction?

Comment Supplant Niche (Score 2) 66

Flying Car != car that flies. Flying car is a vehicle that flies that supplants the automobile as the primary mode of transportation. Think cell phones replacing telephones, cars replacing horses, or personal computers replacing typewriters. The helicopter hasn't replaces the car. It isn't what these people are talking about.

Comment Re:Answer: Helicopters (Score 1) 107

A flying car has to supplant the automobile as the primary mode of transportation in America in order to fufill the hopes made 50 years ago. The idea of a "flying car" is the same as the "horseless buggy" or the "electric car". Those were vehicles that replaced the "horse" or "gas car." (electric car not quite there yet) Currently I would say the electric car does not exist in the Sci-Fi sense. Instead we currently have electric sports cars and electric luxury cars. But not the electric car as promised by Sci-Fi.

Comment Re:My local library (Score 1) 165

Amazon covers quite a bit of that. Books - Yes
Magazines - Yes
Newspapers - Yes/No (maybe not your local paper)
Audio Books - Yes Amazon owns Audible.com
DVDs - Yes Amazon does Movie/TV Streams
Meeting Rooms - No
Events - No
Internet Access - No
Printers - Go paperless already
Photocopiers - Stop waisting paper

Somethings you missed
Research Help
Free Day Care (people leave their kids unattended at libraries)
Curated Childrens Section
Table and chairs for studying.

Comment Public Lending Right (Score 1) 165

The author has missed the point in the forbes article where the author was looking at the UK.

we in the UK already operate our libraries in that fashion. We have something called Public Lending Right

With some small changes they could force the publishers onto UK Kindle unlimited under this model. This would put all the books you want to read on the platform. Of course none of these changes likely have political support to actually happen. No pol is going propose shutting down libraries and sending the money to a foriegn company.

Comment Re:That's a garbage lawsuit (Score 1) 286

You can buy a version of Tetris for the Xbox One that runs at 1080p and 60 frames per second. Is that false adverstising? There are pixil art games on the PS4. The console can output them as 1080p. 1080p does not equal detailed. When people buy games they tipically watch videos and read reviews.

Comment Re:Seems more reasonable once you read the article (Score 1) 286

He could sell it at launch for $40. So his loss is more $10 to $15. Or he could of read reviews like everyone else. He could of watched videoes of the game. Or he could of played the free demo and saw what it looked like before he purchased it. (not 100% sure there was a demo)

Comment Re:"With Nothing Better To Do"? (Score 1) 286

But they did deliver it. It outputs a 1080p signal to your TV. It looks better in the single player mode than in the multplayer one. Where is the 5mil in harm this guy recieved? If he did not like the game he could sell it and recoup 90% of its value. His loss is like $5.

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