Give me a break! If I offer you a free beer or a 50 cent beer (same brand, same born on date) which one are you going to take? Even if the the the beer was discounted 49 cents, most people would take the free one.
These could be used for copy protection on software. Once it is installed something could be written to the CD not allowing it to installed on anything but that(or identical) machine. Of course this could be circumvented, but so can everything.
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You left out Dead Eye Dick. I think it is Vonnegut's best, though Slaughter House Five is a close second.
Give me a break! If I offer you a free beer or a 50 cent beer (same brand, same born on date) which one are you going to take? Even if the the the beer was discounted 49 cents, most people would take the free one.
For 11 million pounds he could buy a bionic back or an exoskeleton and be a real superhero!
These could be used for copy protection on software. Once it is installed something could be written to the CD not allowing it to installed on anything but that(or identical) machine. Of course this could be circumvented, but so can everything.