Funny enough a STB even last decade were using the 6502 in the ACP chip!

This is a great talk: How Do I Crack Satellite and Cable Pay TV? (33c3)

Thanks for the update!

I didn't think Circuit City would last when they did their artificially limited play time with their proprietary DIVX set-top players. Looks like CC shutdown in 2009 and got sold/rebranded as TigerDirect.

I see there is a documentary called "A Tale of Two Cities: The Circuit City Story" where the website pokes fun of Collin's "From Good To Great" label by saying it is a tale of two cities:
* from good to great
* from great to gone

Ouch!

> if I threw darts at a wall with a list of companies, I probably could have done just as well in making picks.

I've heard that criticism before. Thanks for confirming that it isn't just a "one-off" opinion.

> So I guess it is a win-win for Collins, either way he gets to write more books?

Yup,
* if the companies stay in business he gets to write another book "See, I was right!", or
* if the companies go out of business he gets to write another book "See, I was right!"

Pretty sweet gig being a pundit. You get to write more books regardless of the success/failure. /s

> most business leaders are idiots and are terrible at managing their businesses.

Kind of shocking just how many businesses fail in the first X years:

* ~20% fail within the 1st year
* ~30% fail within the 2nd year
* ~40% fail within the 3rd year
* ~50% fail within the 5th year
* ~66% fail by their 10th year
* ~80% fail by their 20th year

Any other good business management books that are worth reading?

"We have a culture of vibrant, open discussion..."

Except when employees take action against the company's bottom line. /s

Today it is the executives, tomorrow it will be the workers. /s

1. Has ANY company tried this and it saved them?
2. How many TOTAL hours per week is this?? I highly doubt this will be 6 2/3 hours x 6 days but the article doesn't say. What happened to the 6 hour workdays ?

Switching to 8 hours x 6 days isn't going to fixing the fundamental problem. Someone in management needs to read "From Good to Great", "Built to Last" among other management books. IMHO Samsung needs to:

* look at their core business,
* look at their entire supply chain costs,
* pivot their (core?) business where it makes sense.

Working even more hours is a "Hail Mary" pass pretty much guaranteed to fail causing more burnout as home-life balance is nonexistent. Don't be surprised if Samsung is out of business in 10 years. I'll miss their NVMe drives.

You are absolutely right 99% of people are too complacent to switch.

However, you are forgetting that over time Linux users AND open source users are growing. i.e. For me 7-Zip killed the commercial file archivers (pkzip, winrar, etc.)

More and more software works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Switching from proprietary vendor lock-in to open source alternatives (where it makes sense) is how to get people to switch. OpenOffice / LibreOffice, Blender, Krita already provide great alternatives.

The harder MS shoves their agenda down everyone's throats the easier it is to finally come across "the straw that broke the camel's back." Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but maybe next year, or in 5 years, or in 10. Cue "THIS year is the year of the Linux desktop". /s It starts with us Techies who are tired of supporting MS's adware crap. Eventually we just don't care about MS. I'm already running Linux under a dedicated spare box and under a VM in my daily driver. In time we'll make the switch permanent.

For me, games have been the biggest reason I haven't made my daily driver Linux but with the new games coming out there is less and less "need" to stay on Windows. The more and more they add an in-game MTX store to games the less interested I am in them.

Valve is also doing a great job of having more and more games work under Linux. Support them when you can.

The best way to "proselytize" Linux is NOT to say anything but just to use it. Start small: 1 application here, another application there. Suggest open source alternative at work. So who cares if MS wins this battle (Win10) or that battle (win11); eventually they are going to lose the war as more and more people get fed up with SaaS and switch to open-source alternatives. From there is easier to eventually switch to Linux. The best way to "win the war" is 1 application at a time. Time is on our side. Linux already "won" on the Supercomputer and Mobile (Android) space. Desktop is next.

That's awesome you escaped "Microshaft's" tyranny. I mostly agree with you.

1. Affinity Photo is good if you still need to live on Windows. The Affinity suite offers a one-time fee opposed to Adobe nickel and diming. For open source GIMP is OK, Krita is awesome, Blender is awesome. Is there a good alternative to Substance Painter?
2. I don't use Quicken so I'm not locked in.
3. Not all work under Wine / Proton but more and more do which is fantastic.
4. Except us game devs who, you know, have to ship Windows or Console games. =P
5. I'm more a Vim person but Emacs is great too. OpenOffice / LibreOffice is great.
6. Curious what you use? OpenShot, Kdenlive, DaVinci Resolve, something else?

But yeah, Win10 is probably the last MS OS for me. Games are really the only thing holding me from switching my daily driver over to Linux and frankly with the way MTX greed has infected most new games I'm perfectly happy playing older games.

Same for YouTube Red:

"NO I don't want YouTube Red. I said NO the last time and the more you keep harassing me guarantees I never will want it.
  STOP asking me every fucking time."

Exactly. "fast-moving change"?? How often do licenses change???

It takes 5 years to build trust with customers and 5 seconds to lose it.

Which (ironically?) both VT and FF are missing from JSON. /shrug

Robin Hood (1922) has been remade a whopping 17 times! More if you include the direct-to-video and TV films.

There is a list of remakes on Wikipedia. A Star Reborn can be found on the N-Z list.

There are some extremely informative channels you just have to find them due to Sturgeon's Law. Here are some of the better ones:

* Documentary: MagnatesMedia
* GameDev: Sebastian Lague
* GameDev: SimonDev
* GameDev: RandyPrime
* Hardware Reviews: GamersNexus
* Hardware Reviews: Hardware Unboxed
* Math: 3Blue1Brown
* Math: Numberphile
* Music, Rock History: Professor of Rock
* Motorcycles: FortNine
* Social Commentary: UpperEchelon
* Social Commentary: ColdFusion

Found the lazy/shitty programmer that couldn't be bothered to add a trivial additional check for tabs. /s

const char* Text_SkipWhiteSpace (const char *text)
{
    while (text && ((*text == ' ') || (*text == '\n') || (*text == '\r') || (*text == '\t')))
    {
        text++;
    }
    return text;
}

This isn't fucking rocket science but basic 101 Computer Science.

> no home theater setup on the planet that can come close to the picture sound quality of a good digital cinema setup

For video a good home theater setup is MORE than "good enough" especially with OLED and true blacks. I also GREATLY prefer my plasma to film but YMMV.

Let me know when I can:

* adjust brightness / contrast,
* control the volume,
* adjust treble/base,
* adjust an individual channel's loudness, or
* turn on/off CC

when at the movies because for every 1 advantage the cinema has the home theater has 5x.

The movie starts when *I* want it to and I don't have to sit through 20+ mins of shitty ads.

Lastly I can eat and drink whatever I want AND without being price gouged an arm and a leg.

Theaters used to be a social experience but with the time and money alone you waste commuting they archaic. Whatever advantages they used to have are long gone.

Agreed. I have boycotted "Ubisucks" for years because of their draconian copy protection / live service.

If a live service game is no long being sold then the DRM should NOT apply so server emulators can be legal IMHO.