Other ships, who can say. But if you are at about 60 degrees south of the equator and keep going due west (or east, of course) you can keep going forever without ever hitting land. You'll pass just below the southernmost point of Chile and just above the nothernmost parts of Antartica.
> if you are at about 60 degrees south of the equator and keep going due west (or east, of course) you can keep going forever without ever hitting land.
No, this requires you to constantly steer left (or right, of course). So you are not traveling on a straight line.
I wasn't sure if there literally wasn't a great circle route that didn't include land in it. I am moderately surprised to find out there isn't[0]. But I would be more surprised if there wasn't some line of latitude you could follow around antartica that never hits land.
There’s a quote attributed to adam smith “there’s a lot of ruin in a nation”.
A large enterprise such as Google, GE, or IBM can be poorly managed for decades before being economically forced to change.
I observed a team making 25 MM per engineer in a large company that made one change per year. There are products at google that require 400+ pages of documentation/proof to change.
Blockbuster v Netflix is odd though, in that Blockbuster actually did pivot to the DVD by mail subscriptions really well.
Well at least operationally it was a good product, and imo better than Netflix's, but I have no idea if helped or hurt them financially.
But Blockbuster's established sources for content/disks should have been an advantage against the stories of Netflix having to go buy retail copies of movies in cases of uncooperative distributors.
It was just Phase 2 and moving to streaming where they fell so far behind. (Plus Redbox's uprising didn't help, which is a separate failure to pivot.)
That wasn't necessarily inability to steer. Blockbuster had an opportunity to own Netflix at one point and said no. Just like Docker was given a chance to steward Kubernetes and decided to compete against it instead.