As a totaly pointless reply to skycubes
Quote: "(b) transfer the Software from one computer to another provided it is used on only one computer at any one time"
Simultaneity is something we rarely think about - we just accept it as a fact of life. However, thinking matters through, it isn't obvious at all how one can determine whether or not two events at two different locations happen simultaneously, or not.
Absolute simultaneity is a hypothetical coincidence of two or more events in different points in space for all observers in the universe. It is shown in the theory of relativity that there may be always observers for whom simultaneity won't correspond to the same moments in time and therefore simultaneity is always relative.
More simply two events happening in two different locations that occur simultaneously to one observer, may occur at different times to another observer
More simply still, just cos you say that its not being used on two computers at the same time, doesnt mean it isnt
Then we have the problem of the basic unit of Time, I could argue that the most basic "One time", would be decribed as Now. This though then begs the question of how long is now. I could not argue with the person that said that today is now, and therefore it could be argueed that any two events that occored today took place at the same time.
Thosands of dinosaurs species became extinct across the globe at the same time. Fairly resonalbe statment. Yet this event took at least one day, and in all probability several months. Yet we are willing to credit it with "Same Time"
H&K
