Pioneer sold off their division months ago to a company that just wanted the patents. I am fairly sure LG and ASUS also stopped. The folks who use makemkv have been buying up the last drives that can handle UHD discs (native or with a firmware mod).

The standalone blu ray player market has a shrinking set of model options and also no new 4k options for the last few years.

I donâ(TM)t think they need any engineers. Each year they use their marketing department and Dreamforce conference to find a new way to rebrand and repackage their existing products as something new, including the use of fabricated demos of features and products that donâ(TM)t exist and likely never will.

Costco intentionally moves products around, so anythong besides the bakery and butcher wonâ(TM)t consistently be in the same spot.

As for courtesy, that applies in the Pacific Northwest (where Costco actually startedâ"donâ(TM)t give me the bullshit about LA since thatâ(TM)s about Price Club that merged with Costco), but not in the bat area where ironically all the people from crowded countries like China and India block the isles.

The growth of Kirkland Signature isnâ(TM)t a good thing. It reflects how Costco has progressively replaces name brand products with their own house brand.

A 3+ hour movie is designed for home watching. Itâ(TM)s tough enough for 2 hours. Either shorten the movie or bring back intermission, and put the trailers back at the end. It takes more than cushy seats and seat assignments to provide a premium experience for the premium price â" we already get those 2 perks at home.

The easiest way to have growth is come up with a way to get the benefits of Rust without unnecessarily diverging from C/C++ so much. The answer isnâ(TM)t Rust, but probably yet another language or a âsafeâ(TM) subset of C/C++.

For âoeRust's design goalâ weâ(TM)re well aware of the one that says to take a less ideal aspect of C/C++ and do the opposite design decision, even if the âcureâ(TM) is worse than the âdiseaseâ(TM). This is what makes Rust a nonstarter for many and documentation wonâ(TM)t fix it.

We also see what kind of spoiled and annoying brats everyone raises these days and decide itâ(TM)s impossible to not raise an annoying child of our oen if theyâ(TM)re going to be influenced by all the other brats at daycare and school.

Sounds like a Reacher, which led up to a big fight scene in its first season that didnâ(TM)t compare well to the unimpressive fights in Arrow (which Arrow had in every episode).

Itâ(TM)s the boot firmware used for chromebooks. Other people can try to replace their manufacturers firmware with it but I donâ(TM)t know why (Google doesnâ(TM)t use it on their datacenter servers).

Sundar Pichaiâs presence at Trumpâ(TM)s inauguration was an open declaration on day 0 that Google wouldnâ(TM)t have balls or principles and instead bend the knee for Trump.

The CA DMV driver manual states that a car must stop/yield when a pedestrian is any part of the sidewalk (with an exception for divided streets), but Iâ(TM)ve never found any part the CVC (California Vehicle Code) that states this.

Waymo lets people book pickups and drop-offs in areas that are marked âoeNo Stopping Any Timeâ, and thereâ(TM)s lots of other ways that Waymoâ(TM)s driving doesnâ(TM)t set a good example for other drivers to reference.

Their CEO is "nothing more than a leader " who makes over $350K, so there's the attribution that they've lost their way.

You install the app, create an acount, and download an ID. However, the ID needs to be refreshed after 30 days and the password expires regularly too. A huge pain with little upside. I doubt the iPhone Wallet experience will be any better.

The stated goals focus too much on design and not enough on the poor implementation (i.e., lazy coding and reviews). MSFT has too much of a culture where customer issue reports are not addressed because 1) they need a compelling business justification, or 2) they claim they canâ(TM)t fix because some app might rely on the broken behavior. Iâ(TM)ve had MSFT reply with #2 even when an API function is completely broken (eg you can disassemble it and see that all it does is return âoenot implementedâ, despite documentation that details the actions performed and the meaning of the inout parameters [that in actuality are ignored] ).

I gave MSFT some leeway for #2 on components that were first created in the 1990s, but many were reimplemented circa Windows 10 with equally poor quality.

Waymo typically costs more than Uber and Lyft, usually about double whenever Iâ(TM)ve tried to make speculative bookings over the past several months.

No, HP has a bad habit of inappropriately using generic hardware IDs in their devices. For example, the USB ID for composite devices (ie a device with multiple functions hooked together by an internal USB hub). This bad design is partly why HP printers use complex installers. HP probably updated their driver and it got applied to too many devices. Normally driver certification tests are supposed to stop crap like this, so thereâ(TM)s either a gap in this tests or HP gets to cheat.