There's so many of these retailers who could have owned the future if they got it right. Like you say, HMV was there first and just screwed up the mechanism and didn't support it fully.
Same with Blockbuster, they had a DVD rental by post service in the UK when "LoveFilm" (now Amazon) and Netflix were just a fever dream, but they only did individual rentals and never promoted it for fear of cannibalising the stores (lol). They even made their own films, most notably the Charlize Theron/Christina Rici film "Monster". They had everything they needed to be 2018 netflix and they buggered it up horribly.
There's the powerful counterpoint of course that those vehicles actually exist, the $35k Tesla 3 does not in production quantities and is sliding further into the future with every announcement.
By the time I can walk into a Tesla dealer (especially in the UK as the RHD will be even further behind) and buy a standard Tesla 3, there will be probably another 2 major updates to that Ioniq. And maybe Ford etc will have their hands properly in play.
Interestingly, in the UK that may not be true. The Spectrum Vega+ on IndieGogo is currently in the middle of collapsing but they've already been sued and the court found that the presence of an expected delivery date among other things meant that it WAS a pre-order legally.
I was just thinking that, I've got a bunch of TVs in the office that when we're not using them for meetings show pictures from team-building trips and what have you using a $30 Chromecast.
I think I just saved the company $19,970, I should ask for a raise.
I live near London, with one of the bigger underground railway systems in the world. I'd say once a week someone kills themselves by throwing themselves in front of an underground train.
They don't seem to deliberately do it with cars so much, I wonder if that would change.
It's not that "big" engine cars are unknown here though. Although I've never been around anything bigger than 3.0 (a BMW 330ci back when the 30 meant 30) to find out.
My current car is an ecoboost Fiesta and that's 12,500 or annual.
Which is a level of evil you can actually admire, because they can say with a straight face "everyone" benefits and then do their usual screaming of fake news at anything that points out what you just did.
Even better, without ramming through another bill, it starts to get really bad for normal people somewhere around just after the next election when it's likely someone else's problem.
I have VLC installed for video, but it still doesn't pass the simple "windowshade" test.
I don't care about support for other formats, I'm not running it on anything else and I certainly don't care about efficiency in the playback of an mp3 in 2017.
I think I tried foobar probably so long ago the name "Foobar 2000" wasn't hilarious but yeah, it just seemed like too much screen real-estate to tell me nothing useful window shade mode on winamp didn't.
"I still remember all the visualizations and custom skins -- but does this bring back any memories for anyone else?"
Memories? I still use it.
I don't know what these supposed "Features" it doesn't have that are in modern players are but I don't want them. What I want is something that sits in one line at the top of my screen and plays music. It's still Winamp for that and has been since 1997.
I'm a scum master (ex-dev), I WFH 1 or 2 days a week. These are my getting stuff done days. In the office it's my "helping everyone else get stuff done" days.:)
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I have rounded tabs and it's super obvious which one the current one is?
Is this just a lot of people with badly calibrated monitors?
I'd forgotten that little detail too.
Of course given the management, if they'd bought Netflix then Netflix wouldn't be Netflix.
There's so many of these retailers who could have owned the future if they got it right. Like you say, HMV was there first and just screwed up the mechanism and didn't support it fully.
Same with Blockbuster, they had a DVD rental by post service in the UK when "LoveFilm" (now Amazon) and Netflix were just a fever dream, but they only did individual rentals and never promoted it for fear of cannibalising the stores (lol). They even made their own films, most notably the Charlize Theron/Christina Rici film "Monster". They had everything they needed to be 2018 netflix and they buggered it up horribly.
That is not universally true by any means.
Most notably a case a friend of mine had when they were slowing down for a queue and someone changed lanes and immediately stood on the brakes.
In the pre-dash cam era the case took 18 months to win but he won it.
Especially as you'll need that money to pay off all the users who sue you after they're hacked.
They're also required to use Micro USB charging in the EU and Apple apparently are allowed to skirt that by selling an adapter.
Fair enough, I scrolled their entire front page at the time of posting and either it was not there, or I didn't spot it.
There's the powerful counterpoint of course that those vehicles actually exist, the $35k Tesla 3 does not in production quantities and is sliding further into the future with every announcement.
By the time I can walk into a Tesla dealer (especially in the UK as the RHD will be even further behind) and buy a standard Tesla 3, there will be probably another 2 major updates to that Ioniq. And maybe Ford etc will have their hands properly in play.
The whole thing is bordering on hilarity.
They claimed they were ready to ship 2 weeks ago but haven't released a single picture of a finished device, so presumably they don't exist.
Interestingly, in the UK that may not be true. The Spectrum Vega+ on IndieGogo is currently in the middle of collapsing but they've already been sued and the court found that the presence of an expected delivery date among other things meant that it WAS a pre-order legally.
The giveaway here is that Breitbart have chosen to pretend it never happened. If even they can't spin it, you know he screwed up.
"Electing a serial sexual assaulter has helped women come forward"
Brilliant.
I was just thinking that, I've got a bunch of TVs in the office that when we're not using them for meetings show pictures from team-building trips and what have you using a $30 Chromecast.
I think I just saved the company $19,970, I should ask for a raise.
More disturbingly....
I live near London, with one of the bigger underground railway systems in the world. I'd say once a week someone kills themselves by throwing themselves in front of an underground train.
They don't seem to deliberately do it with cars so much, I wonder if that would change.
It's not that "big" engine cars are unknown here though. Although I've never been around anything bigger than 3.0 (a BMW 330ci back when the 30 meant 30) to find out.
My current car is an ecoboost Fiesta and that's 12,500 or annual.
Which is a level of evil you can actually admire, because they can say with a straight face "everyone" benefits and then do their usual screaming of fake news at anything that points out what you just did.
Even better, without ramming through another bill, it starts to get really bad for normal people somewhere around just after the next election when it's likely someone else's problem.
Changing the oil every 5 minutes seems to be a purely American thing. It'd only happen at an annual service in the UK for most cars.
No, people in the USA couldn't. Someone lied that they did and were exposed.
I have VLC installed for video, but it still doesn't pass the simple "windowshade" test.
I don't care about support for other formats, I'm not running it on anything else and I certainly don't care about efficiency in the playback of an mp3 in 2017.
"More useful"
Genuinely curious what could make a music player "more useful" than Winamp.
I think I tried foobar probably so long ago the name "Foobar 2000" wasn't hilarious but yeah, it just seemed like too much screen real-estate to tell me nothing useful window shade mode on winamp didn't.
"I still remember all the visualizations and custom skins -- but does this bring back any memories for anyone else?"
Memories? I still use it.
I don't know what these supposed "Features" it doesn't have that are in modern players are but I don't want them. What I want is something that sits in one line at the top of my screen and plays music. It's still Winamp for that and has been since 1997.
I'm a scum master (ex-dev), I WFH 1 or 2 days a week. These are my getting stuff done days. In the office it's my "helping everyone else get stuff done" days. :)
Did you see the idiot Conservative MEP who suggested the solution was simply to have a hard border between the whole British Isles and the EU.
Yeah, that'll go down splendidly.
They haven't though, the UK has changed the way of measuring unemployment multiple times, that portion of his post is absolutely true.
The reason for doing so we can debate.