Nope. It’s also not true that it was because Betamax was too late as many claim. Betamax came out in 1975 and VHS in 1976.
So Betamax actually had a slight head start.

The reason Betamax lost was that Sony had exclusive rights to Betamax, and they tried to monopolize the market.
VHS was a way more open standard all could use, which lead to the obvious result that everybody that made video-recorders made VHS.
With the way better availability and more competition on VHS recorders, and VHS being cheaper to make to begin with, prices on VHS were way more more competitive. This was a significant factor because video recorders were very expensive early on.
The tapes were also cheaper for VHS, which probably was a factor too.

This of course led to VHS also being by far the preferred format for video shops, as there was a bigger market for VHS videos.
Some claim that the way wider availability of VHS movies in video shops was a factor too, but this was IMO more a result of more people already owning VHS videos when video shops became popular. And if you loaned/rented a moviebox with your videos, those were also always VHS, for the obvious reason that they were way cheaper for the shop.

So in short, it was all about price and availability, because that shit was expensive early on, and I bet the porn industry chose VHS for the exact same reason everybody else did. It was cheaper for them, and being cheaper for consumers too, you could reach a wider audience, meaning you could make more money.

That’s OK, I wouldn’t dream of buying American RAM anyway.

Only if you use their products and allow them to profit from it.

Being radical is not a sign of being progressive in thinking and definitely not a sign of doing what is best.
Being radical left (or right) is not to be more “modern” either.
UK at the time was way more radical on both the left and the right side than most European countries, exactly because of FPTP. And it lead to politically unsustainable solutions. Again a sign of stupid policies, and a sub par form of governance.
Nationalizing is radical, but it’s a double edged sword that can easily become a burden. It was already at that time an old fashioned socialist way of thinking.
The more modern Social democracies of Scandinavia avoided nationalizing but used regulation instead. A model that has been proven on average to work way better.
So again I’d say the UK politicians weren’t neither modern or clever in nationalizing industries, as I wrote in a previous post, and nationalizing an industry has nothing to do with modernizing it, on the contrary nationalized industries tend to become monopolies, and monopolies tend to stifle innovation.
Also the improvements in the Social Democratic countries on health education and infra structure quickly surpassed the UK.

Indeed.

It’s almost like it’s a hobby for Conservatives to lie.

I was told in history lessons, that it was also why UK didn’t modernize after WW2.
While the rest of Europe modernized, especially Germany that had to rebuild a lot.
But when UK rebuild, they made the same mistakes as the first time all over again, because of tradition as you say.

There are striking similarities.

The most idiotic part is that UK actually had a vote to end this shitshow, and they chose not to!!!
How moronic can a population get? Why the fuck did they vote against democracy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum

Of course the anti democratic British idiots failed to suggest the only sensible option which is proportional representation!

There have already been several lawsuits against AI companies, where it is revealed that AI art is copied from existing original works.
You may be right, but I don’t think that battle is lost quite yet.
AI is mostly good for memes, beyond that it tends to quickly becomes repetitive, and of little value.
Of course AI art generally has a human “director” guiding the AI on what to do. As I said previously we will see how it turns out.
I’m not sure the end result of this will be within 10 years.

The strategy is to raise prices and get more sales at the same time

Good strategy if he can pull it off. 🤣🤣🤣

That is true, but for instance Ian M Banks predicted AI being able to make art already back in the 70’s in his Culture series of books.
Even accurately simulating famous artists. And his conclusion was that AI should not make art at all, because it would end up detracting from the value of art.

I think the reason the CEO is wrong, is that it will be a legal shitshow, and I think AI art may become illegal, or at the very least required to be clearly labeled as AI art.

We will see how it turns out.

It’s true it’s not as accurate, but I think it can tell for more than 1, as long as it’s not in the wrong pattern.
Also if all 4 are going flat, there is either something seriously wrong or the user hasn’t checked tire pressure for a very long time, and you still need to do that.

I suppose that’s the thing that can measure the rotation with high enough accuracy, I didn’t even think of that.
So it’s based on a sensor that is already there! Very clever. 👍

What cost?

I’m arguing to convert to metric when posting on an international forum, because metric is the international standard.
But I’ll have you know that I often also post Imperial units when posting things that are in metric, because I know there are also a lot of Americans here. I’ve seen others do the same.
But Americans very rarely do that. Hence the claim about American arrogance.

Finally to make the car show bar instead of psi and use it for recommended tire pressure has no extra cost.

This is especially bad in USA, but usually a bit better in European countries that have representation of the unions on the board.

I must admit I’m a bit of an VW fanboy, I just bought an ID.4 and I am waiting for it be ready to drive home.
It is such a brilliant piece of engineering in so many ways, I am very impressed with what VW achieved with that car.
Goddam the driving of that car is excellent! 😀 😎

Seems to me it did the job, maybe not as accurate, but it’s a way simpler system and less error prone.

It’s not just different, it’s less intuitive, and it’s based on other obsolete units, and it is only used by a minority.
I bet if some other country had their own national standards of measurement plastered all over the net, that you would be pretty annoyed by that too.
But somehow USA doing this shit constantly is OK because AMERICA!!

Americans are fucking annoying with their constant special pleading, it’s OK to post psi or other imperial units, but for fucks sake post the metric units too that the majority is using.

The VW ID.4 uses actual/expected rotational speed to calculate pressure.
No sensor to ruin there.