If you had kept reading, your expectations would have become much, much, lower. The whole thing seems to have been written by a middle-schooler armed with a random punctuation generator.
Whoosh. Ignoring the meaning of "modify," you claim replacing a hard drive isn't a modification. Why would you replace one then? Really - unless it's different (more capacity, faster, quieter, ?), why exactly?
And you really, really, have a hard time with reading comprehension. Using different spark plugs and oil filters is no different - if a manufacturer replaces them free during warranty, they can require you to use whichever ones they want. If you use something else, it's a modification, and you lose warranty coverage if it doesn't allow modifications. So, do you have a point, other than the one on your head?
You're playing sophomoric, sophist word games which would immediately get kicked away from any legal argument. I understand what you'd like to do. I also understand what Sony's perfectly legal warranty terms say, and they don't let you do what you want. Sucks to be you.
Oh, Sony also doesn't provide a free clean-it-by-putting-it-through-the-washing-machine service, either. And your warranty will be gone if you try.
"This means that if you open up the PS4 and install a bigger hard drive, you have not voided the warranty."
Yes, you have. Sony hasn't said you must use a Sony drive, but they have said that you can't make modifications, which is allowed. You have violated the clearly written warranty terms.
Neither dust nor opening for inspection are necessary, and either would be tampering. If dust caused a problem, it would be repaired under warranty.
My understanding is that the law is that manufacturers are not allowed to void warranty, or imply that the warranty is voided, by repairs done by an outside party.
These stickers imply that the warranty is voided and thus run afoul of the law:
Nope. Try reading the actual act:
15 U.S. Code  2302(c) Prohibition on conditions for written or implied warranty; waiver by Commission
No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumerâ(TM)s using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade, or corporate name;
...that one section is what all the bullshit is based on. The rest of the act basically says the warranty must be clearly written.
Note: a mfgr doesn't have to allow third parties to do repairs (as long as they will do the repair "without charge under the terms of the warranty"). Nothing prevents a mfgr from not allowing opening, tampering with, or modifying a product. Nothing prevents a mfgr from disallowing the use of third party replacement parts (as long as they provide the parts "without charge under the terms of the warranty"). Nothing prevents a car manufacturer from saying the engine warranty is void if you hang fuzzy dice on your mirror. And, no, they don't have to prove that some modification broke things.
A PS4 comes with a 1 year warranty which covers parts and labor "without charge under the terms of the warranty." They're within their rights, and not in violation of the law, to put a do-no-break sticker on the box.
It's not illegal, the article is full of shit. br/>And, the FTC didn't say it was illegal, they included it among "questionable practices".
What is illegal is basing warranty coverage on use of parts specified by trade name, unless replacement of those parts is free under the warranty. So, Ford can't say you have to use their oil and filters when changing oil (they can if they give free oil changes, though), and Hoover can't make you use their vacuum cleaner bags.
That really doesn't apply to a PS4 - the warranty covers everything that's inside. The sticker thing would be more for something like a computer - where they say you have to buy RAM upgrades from the manufacturer. But still, the manufacturer could say "no upgrades at all," and use a sticker to enforce it. But the sticker itself is just a red flag, it is not itself illegal.
There's my authority, published Feb 2018. AFAIK, Dyson's aren't heated, and that study dealt with "hot air hand dryers." Doesn't make sense that it would be funded by a Dyson competitor.
But feel free to provide your proof that the study was funded by a Dyson competitor.
The flagships are all pushing thinner phones with minimal bezels. F that. It's hard enough to handle a phone already without fat-fingering an edge and triggering some unwanted change.
I want a thicker, easier to handle phone, and take the room to put the headphone jack back in, along with a larger removable battery and sdcard. Bonus if you have front facing stereo speakers in the bezels (with no display notch).
You do see stars in Apollo photos. Just not when the camera is set to properly expose the sunlit lunar surface, which causes the stars to be vastly underexposed. Looking at the data for one of the images, it's a 12.5 second exposure. The scene is indirectly illuminated, you can see what appears to be an overexposed, sunlit highlight in the last frame of the animation.
The "falling" stuff is the starfield, they're all moving in unison. Read the comments at the original source - the images capture NGC2362 (Mag 4.1) and MGC2354 (Mag 6.1).
The stuff moving in semi-random directions (but mostly toward the upper left, it appears) is the "snow." That includes the streaks. In order for a cosmic ray to produce a streak, it would have to be traveling along the plane of the image sensor (or strong enough to effect an entire sensor row/column).
More than "a backup," likely thousands of backups, with re-imaging of systems first. Plus, fixing the vulnerability and re-entering any manually processed data since the backup date. And that's assuming they have off-line backups which weren't affected by the attack.
"They don't pay staff enough to live on, and rely on government hand-outs"
So, the simple solution is to eliminate government handouts.
And, it's not like every job needs to provide enough to live on. It might take 2 jobs. LIfe can be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Or, think of the children who want jobs but don't need jobs to live on - forcing a minimum wage which is above the poverty line reduces the availability of jobs.
Seems that Amazon is giving jobs to people in need. What's the issue? If they could find a higher paying job, they would.
Amazon is successful, for the most part, because they're the low cost provider. They could pay more and not be as successful, and not employ as many people. Would that be better? One needs to consider not only the employees, but the consumers who are getting an advantage from Amazon's efficiencies.
After speaking with anonymous sources, he comes up with this, upon which the whole article is based:
In order to have access to the GPP program, its partners must have its "Gaming Brand Aligned Exclusively With GeForce."
The obvious, and unanswered question is - does that refer to all gaming brands a manufacturer may have, or a gaming brand? If the latter, there's absolutely no issue - MotherboardKing can have a Zoomzoom brand for Nvidia, and a Zipzip brand for AMD, each "aligned exclusively."
"Maybe I'm missing the point, but why are we working on a carrier-based replacement for SMS at all?"
Good quesiton. Why not just use email, which is available on any modern phone? It's easily accessed from multiple devices, even a web browser in many cases. No real limit to size. You can attach documents. All the kids seem to like the limitations of SMS for some reason.
"but if everyone takes the shortcut it ends up taking everyone 30 minutes more. "
Said by someone who's obviously unclear about the concept. Waze dynamically routes using the fastest path. Diverting some traffic away from a path does not make that path flow slower.
Fuck that. Streets are paid for by all taxpayers, and "rights of way" are long established. What Waze does falls under free speech. You don't want people taking a shortcut through your neighborhood, then stop with the "Waze has upended our City's traffic plans" bullshit and make it so the major roads work better than the side roads. It really is that simple.
Or, just build out an efficient, useful, and desirable mass transit system.
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YHBT. YHL. HAND.
And, it reduces the cost of temporary shelter. So, it's an equalizer.
"What I was expecting at that point..."
If you had kept reading, your expectations would have become much, much, lower. The whole thing seems to have been written by a middle-schooler armed with a random punctuation generator.
"You know there are things like case law... No, I'm not going to go research case law for you."
So, you can't defend your point. G'bye!
Whoosh. Ignoring the meaning of "modify," you claim replacing a hard drive isn't a modification. Why would you replace one then? Really - unless it's different (more capacity, faster, quieter, ?), why exactly?
And you really, really, have a hard time with reading comprehension. Using different spark plugs and oil filters is no different - if a manufacturer replaces them free during warranty, they can require you to use whichever ones they want. If you use something else, it's a modification, and you lose warranty coverage if it doesn't allow modifications. So, do you have a point, other than the one on your head?
You're playing sophomoric, sophist word games which would immediately get kicked away from any legal argument. I understand what you'd like to do. I also understand what Sony's perfectly legal warranty terms say, and they don't let you do what you want. Sucks to be you.
Oh, Sony also doesn't provide a free clean-it-by-putting-it-through-the-washing-machine service, either. And your warranty will be gone if you try.
"This means that if you open up the PS4 and install a bigger hard drive, you have not voided the warranty."
Yes, you have. Sony hasn't said you must use a Sony drive, but they have said that you can't make modifications, which is allowed. You have violated the clearly written warranty terms.
Neither dust nor opening for inspection are necessary, and either would be tampering. If dust caused a problem, it would be repaired under warranty.
Nope. Try reading the actual act:
...that one section is what all the bullshit is based on. The rest of the act basically says the warranty must be clearly written.
Note: a mfgr doesn't have to allow third parties to do repairs (as long as they will do the repair "without charge under the terms of the warranty"). Nothing prevents a mfgr from not allowing opening, tampering with, or modifying a product. Nothing prevents a mfgr from disallowing the use of third party replacement parts (as long as they provide the parts "without charge under the terms of the warranty"). Nothing prevents a car manufacturer from saying the engine warranty is void if you hang fuzzy dice on your mirror. And, no, they don't have to prove that some modification broke things.
A PS4 comes with a 1 year warranty which covers parts and labor "without charge under the terms of the warranty." They're within their rights, and not in violation of the law, to put a do-no-break sticker on the box.
It's not illegal, the article is full of shit.
br/>And, the FTC didn't say it was illegal, they included it among "questionable practices".
What is illegal is basing warranty coverage on use of parts specified by trade name, unless replacement of those parts is free under the warranty. So, Ford can't say you have to use their oil and filters when changing oil (they can if they give free oil changes, though), and Hoover can't make you use their vacuum cleaner bags.
That really doesn't apply to a PS4 - the warranty covers everything that's inside. The sticker thing would be more for something like a computer - where they say you have to buy RAM upgrades from the manufacturer. But still, the manufacturer could say "no upgrades at all," and use a sticker to enforce it. But the sticker itself is just a red flag, it is not itself illegal.
Why wouldn't the arctic want some good head?
2018 study
There's my authority, published Feb 2018. AFAIK, Dyson's aren't heated, and that study dealt with "hot air hand dryers." Doesn't make sense that it would be funded by a Dyson competitor.
But feel free to provide your proof that the study was funded by a Dyson competitor.
Yeah. Leave a connector plugged into the charging port while carrying it around so it fails much faster than otherwise. That's a solution. For you.
Or the simple "push and water flows for 15 seconds" mechanical ones.
Of course, you then stuck with one of the electric "blows germs around the room" or "needs batteries to give you towels" things to dry your hands.
The flagships are all pushing thinner phones with minimal bezels. F that. It's hard enough to handle a phone already without fat-fingering an edge and triggering some unwanted change.
I want a thicker, easier to handle phone, and take the room to put the headphone jack back in, along with a larger removable battery and sdcard. Bonus if you have front facing stereo speakers in the bezels (with no display notch).
Because the ESA is using 1960's film cameras?
You do see stars in Apollo photos. Just not when the camera is set to properly expose the sunlit lunar surface, which causes the stars to be vastly underexposed. Looking at the data for one of the images, it's a 12.5 second exposure. The scene is indirectly illuminated, you can see what appears to be an overexposed, sunlit highlight in the last frame of the animation.
The "falling" stuff is the starfield, they're all moving in unison. Read the comments at the original source - the images capture NGC2362 (Mag 4.1) and MGC2354 (Mag 6.1).
The stuff moving in semi-random directions (but mostly toward the upper left, it appears) is the "snow." That includes the streaks. In order for a cosmic ray to produce a streak, it would have to be traveling along the plane of the image sensor (or strong enough to effect an entire sensor row/column).
It's only one syllable, you insensitive clod. You're pronouncing it wrong.
If you think making trite comments indicating a shallow understanding of the subject makes you clever, it doesn't.
More than "a backup," likely thousands of backups, with re-imaging of systems first. Plus, fixing the vulnerability and re-entering any manually processed data since the backup date. And that's assuming they have off-line backups which weren't affected by the attack.
"They don't pay staff enough to live on, and rely on government hand-outs"
So, the simple solution is to eliminate government handouts.
And, it's not like every job needs to provide enough to live on. It might take 2 jobs. LIfe can be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Or, think of the children who want jobs but don't need jobs to live on - forcing a minimum wage which is above the poverty line reduces the availability of jobs.
Seems that Amazon is giving jobs to people in need. What's the issue? If they could find a higher paying job, they would.
Amazon is successful, for the most part, because they're the low cost provider. They could pay more and not be as successful, and not employ as many people. Would that be better? One needs to consider not only the employees, but the consumers who are getting an advantage from Amazon's efficiencies.
The obvious, and unanswered question is - does that refer to all gaming brands a manufacturer may have, or a gaming brand? If the latter, there's absolutely no issue - MotherboardKing can have a Zoomzoom brand for Nvidia, and a Zipzip brand for AMD, each "aligned exclusively."
I wonder if they've ever really done this?
"Maybe I'm missing the point, but why are we working on a carrier-based replacement for SMS at all?"
Good quesiton. Why not just use email, which is available on any modern phone? It's easily accessed from multiple devices, even a web browser in many cases. No real limit to size. You can attach documents. All the kids seem to like the limitations of SMS for some reason.
"but if everyone takes the shortcut it ends up taking everyone 30 minutes more. "
Said by someone who's obviously unclear about the concept. Waze dynamically routes using the fastest path. Diverting some traffic away from a path does not make that path flow slower.
Fuck that. Streets are paid for by all taxpayers, and "rights of way" are long established. What Waze does falls under free speech. You don't want people taking a shortcut through your neighborhood, then stop with the "Waze has upended our City's traffic plans" bullshit and make it so the major roads work better than the side roads. It really is that simple.
Or, just build out an efficient, useful, and desirable mass transit system.