Dead is dead!..

 

It's like having a 10 year old car, where the manufacturer has long discontinued the model,  that is kept going by being serviced & by having new tyres & new stuff added to keep it functional & make it look faster & prettier, but underneath the paint work (& all the repaints), it's still the same! It's kept going by all the accessory guys! The more fancy 'heavy'stuff adds more 'drag' to the engine & slows it down & causes quite a few 'misfires' & the occassional crash when things fail.

 

 

it's like having a 10 year old car

 

What you talking about??? I currently drive a 1989 Honda Civic 25XT. That is a 26 year old car now and it drives just as good today as the day it rolled off the assembly line with next to no maintenance. But that has nothing to do with FSX because FSX is software and does not physically exist. therefore no maintenance required on it. It will work the same in 100 years or 10 years or 50 years as the binary will always remain that...binary

Mathew, The software exists on my PC, well, it used to. & it exists in a box in my cupboard. And we all know that FSX needed a lot of maintenance to work properly, Just have a look at all the mods & tweaks.

Just as your 1989 car needs continual maintenance to work properly. Unless you have done nothing to it in all the time you've had it?

Mathew, The software exists on my PC, well, it used to. & it exists in a box in my cupboard. And we all know that FSX needed a lot of maintenance to work properly, Just have a look at all the mods & tweaks.

Just as your 1989 car needs continual maintenance to work properly. Unless you have done nothing to it in all the time you've had it?

 

No it does not exist. The software is binary. The DVD it came on is a storage device. The PC you install it on is equipment that is inconsequential to whatever software it is running.  Software is binary and therefore does not physically exist, never has and never will. My 1989 car has nothing to do with software, never has and never will.

 

However you see it is up to you but seams to me like you are paying far too much emphasis on something that doesn't even physically exist.

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However you see it is up to you but seams to me like you are paying far too much emphasis on something that doesn't even physically exist.

 

 

Unlike popcorn.  

 

'Risk of closure' topics are the best!  

Unlike popcorn.  

 

'Risk of closure' topics are the best!  

 

Agreed  

 

Yes and popcorn does exist but only until it is eaten then it is gone 

Does the title to a motor vehicle exist? After all, it's simply ink on a piece of paper.

 

However, if it does exist... then I counter that I can print code I have written and by that extension it does indeed exist. Simply because it's a non-corporeal object that you can't place your hands on, doesn't mean it's imaginary.

I still have that T-shirt reading: "I am not an optical illusion ... I just look like one!"  

Why are we actually discussing something that is nebulous & does not exist? Maybe we do not exist either then, and are just part of the M atrix?

 

So, FSX, in all it's forms, P3D, etc do not exist, are binaries, & therefore must exist,?

 

& ... The PC you install it on is equipment that is inconsequential to whatever software it is running.....  Huh??? If I put my P3D on my Celeron laptop, it WILL run, probably as fast as your 1989 Honda! So, I say to you.... PC's ARE consequential to whatever  software it runs..

 

:t0152: :Yawn: :Rolling Eyes:

Hardware and software are two different things

 

Hardware is manufactured, it physically exists. Doesn't matter turned on or turned off it will always physically be there. 

 

Software is code. It does not exist. It can be stored on numerous formats but does not physically exist.

 

and yes it is inconsequential to the computer what you run on it but only consequential to you. A computer may never be turned on even once and it really doesn't matter does it

 

if I put my P3D on my Celeron laptop, it WILL run, probably as fast as your 1989 Honda!

 

Cars have nothing to do with any of this

 

However, if it does exist..

 

But not in the physical sense. this is why it is software, it can be stored in any media you choose but at the end of the day it is code. Flight Simulator is a simulated world that doesn't really exist.

"Software is code. It does not exist. It can be stored on numerous formats but does not physically exist."

 

How, for goodness sake, can something that does not exist be stored on numerous formats? All those devs (well, some of them) are making money by selling a non-existant product! & we buy non existant product..

 

"Flight Simulator is a simulated world that doesn't really exist."

& we are buying an imaginary product.. So why can I not pay with imaginary money?

 

 

lol... Steam is selling an imaginary product, as is LM.

So, the laugh's on all of us for buying a non-existant product.

 

If something is imaginary, it does not exist!

But not in the physical sense. this is why it is software, it can be stored in any media you choose but at the end of the day it is code. Flight Simulator is a simulated world that doesn't really exist.

Uh... you go on believing software doesn't exist. LOL :smile: The absurdity of that argument is just that... absurd.

If something is imaginary, it does not exist!

 

You just answered the question right there. Flight Simulation is a million dollar industry based on Imagination. Companies can profit off of peoples imaginations but at the end of the day the product never physically existed. 

 

The code can be delivered to you stored on a DVD and through the mail of downloaded over the internet. The product is created by creative people and stored on unlimited media types.

 

HOWEVER

 

in 3 thousand years when they study this generation much of the media that was created will be lost because the software never took a physical form, unlike the Pyramids that other cultures have left behind..

 

What I just typed right here will not last like a cavemans pictograph.

Uh... you go on believing software doesn't exist. LOL :smile: The absurdity of that argument is just that... absurd.

 

I've already told you in the physical sense....even you understand that

& who would actually care what games we play anyway! :t0152:

& who would actually care what games we play anyway! 

 

They are called Anthropologists....but yes for them their will be a giant hole from this generation because software is not like pottery or ancient weapons....one day it will just be gone, and many people built there lives and fortunes based on software.