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Ah, misleading use of terminology that indicates one thing, but will win in court even if it actually means, or can later be said to mean, another.
I hope those involved in helping companies win these lawsuits choke on bones from food sold as boneless. Because that won a court case after "boneless" was redefined as a cooking method.
I don't want them to choke to death. Just a little lesson, you know?
I vote they choke indefinitely. But not to death; I want them to die of old age, spending decade upon decade choking endlessly.
I work in pro AV and so many companies do this. Wow, you say LOSSLESS video on a valens chip? Oh, you've never actually done a side-by-side conparison, have you..
Extron differentiates between lossless and "visually lossless" which I appreciate.
Transparent or indistinguishable lossy compression are other common terms
I'm perfectly OK with those, too.
I remember when unlimited minutes plans for cell phones meant 300 minutes.
Or when Comcast had unlimited downloads which was capped at 2 TB.
These shitty companies know exactly what they are doing.
I had an "unlimited" plan with a cell company - I took them at their word and downloaded gobs of stuff. Got shut down in a week.
Of course it's Ohio!
Just a little to death.