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Comment Re: Meaning of "lifetime" miss-understood by many (Score 1) 59

A lifetime warranty refers to the life of the product. I.e. a pair of waterproof shoes with lifetime warranty, are warrantied to be waterproof until they have a hole.

FTFY. Guarantees legally have a different meaning than warranties. If my company offers a guarantee on a product and anything goes wrong, they have to repair/replace. If we only offer a warranty on the product, we warrant it against defects for that timeframe.

Interestingly to me, my understanding was that lifetime warranty/guarantee/support had legally-binding requirements that companies had to set aside certain amounts of capital to legally claim. It's partially why my company trained me to say, "Unlimited support," as opposed to, "Lifetime support."

Submission + - American Airlines Suffers IT outage (dailymail.co.uk)

aitikin writes: American Airlines has been hit by a widespread outage that is impacting all flights.

Reports of issues surfaced around 1:30pm ET, with travelers saying they are stuck on the runway or crammed in waiting areas.

Comment Re:Why lose the sales? (Score 1) 16

Good idea, except you also need PS+ to play online games (except F2P games). So no one is going to drop it over day-one first party access if they play online games like COD. Unlike XBox Sony doesn't have a tiered system (Gamepass Core/Ultimate) so PS+ is the only option.

So, "Essential," "Extra," and, "Premium," aren't different tiers? Essential doesn't have a game catalog included. Extra has the game catalog and Ubisoft+ Classics. Premium has everything Extra has as well as trials, game streaming, and Sony Pictures Catalog. Source

Comment Re:Before we go bonkers (Score 4, Informative) 135

I agree this is a bad look, but throwing out all subscription/service contracts is not the way. Also, this is a terrible look for the contractor and the Navy. Some things need this type of treatment (complex missile and warhead maintenance would be 2 examples). However, connected ovens are not a tech the Navy needs. And ovens used to be considered part of the ship. This should have been killed at the review stages, but will be fixed now. I don't think this is the smoking gun for R2R. A bullet to support the cause, but this is going to be like the McDonald's icecream machines. Another blip.

I don't think you RTFS muchless RTFA. They weren't allowed to repair because the contract flat out states that only the company's techs can repair it:

"I went on the carrier; they had eight ovens -- this is a ship that serves 15,300 meals a day. Only two were working. Six were out." He pointed out the Navy personnel are capable of fixing their own gear but are blocked by contracts that reserve repairs for vendors, often due to IP restrictions.

(emphasis mine).

Comment Re:Finally! (Score 2) 130

The only one I can think of is John Candy (which is a big hole), but Rick Moranis has been retired for many years now, and he's rebuffed most attempts to get him in front of a camera again.

Rick Moranis left acting because his wife passed and he needed to raise his kids, and was actually going to have a role in the, "Honey I Shrunk the Kids," reboot.

Comment Clarifying on Remote Streaming (Score 4, Informative) 69

Per TFA:

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR CURRENT PLEX PASS HOLDERS:
For users who have an active Plex Pass subscription, remote playback will continue to be available to you without interruption from any Plex Media Server, after these changes go into effect. When running your own Plex Media Server as a subscriber, other users to whom you have granted access can also stream from the server (whether local or remote), without ANY additional charge—not even a mobile activation fee.

so if you have a Plex Pass that remains active (including lifetime) any subscribers you have can still stream from your server without having to purchase a Plex Pass.

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