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tbh it read mostly like gibberish to me, but seemed possible there might be some poorly-articulated but otherwise coherent point about the difference between the technical differen…

This just seems like "well ackshually" pedantry that is ironically incorrect. The supply and demand curve as a specific mathematical model describes commodity markets which housing…

Noam Chomsky has been wrong about LLMs for longer

Organize a class action then if you believe so. Fraud is illegal

Evergreen licenses are incredibly common when selling software, not just games. Your suggestions are either: - make publishers distribute goods without anti-piracy protection - mak…

There IS a reason they don't make it possible to download the game copies directly, which is it becomes trivially easy to perfectly replicate and distribute new copies online, whic…

The term you are looking for is straw man

Have any of the books bought on Kindle turned into rocks or can their buyers read them again if they want to?

I can still play the games I bought on the nintendo switch 8 years ago. > Why carry water for billion companies? All companies at a certain scale are billion dollar companies. Also…

Using the word "Buy" to mean buy a license, then having an agreement where the details of the license are explained isn't fraud lol

That is what I suggested. The other poster said what you are suggesting shouldn't be allowed, not me.

Rent and Subscribe would NOT be clear because they imply ongoing payment. Consumers care mostly about if they are paying money once or on an ongoing basis, not abstract things like…

Access to an online server is clearly a service, hence the word "server"

The word subjective is not itself subjective. People understand the definition of the word subjective.

> Why not make the store change what they sell from being a license and making it a product as the consumer expected? Because we have a free market not a command economy? Publisher…

An online server is a service. People don't lose access to offline games, generally speaking.

1. Network transfer time depends on size of data payload and will basically always dwarf cpu operations unless something is seriously messed up 2. Query performance is dependent on…

1. Because you referred to lines of code as the way to suggest SQL is obvious better, not performance 2. No, my point was that talking about code clarity was a distraction because …

Obviously, this means using raw SQL instead of an ORM, as the article was discussing the trade-offs of the two and wasn't a 101 course on what SQL is

As yes, the poor, ignorant average joe, who doesn't realize the game they buy on the PLAYSTATION store needs PLAYSTATION to work in order to play it. If only enough bloggers wrote …

I am understandably pissed that Apple no longer makes small 5-inch iphones because I like them. But other consumers like the bigger phones, so Apple discontinued the mini line. Is …

This is just pedantry, and incorrect pedantry at that. BUY does not always mean you gain ownership. You can BUY a license or a haircut and you don't own anything. Are consumers con…

There is no perfect word. Ticket and pass imply a fixed duration lease, not an indefinite one. Membership implies continual payments.

If someone goes to the playstation store to buy a playstation game, you don't think it's clear that they can only play the game on playstation? I think consumers understand what th…

The vast majority of consumers don't care or think about this at all. It's a loud and tiny minority who imagine this great injustice will lead to some groundswell of rallied consum…