Re: Amazing...
Nicely put Lee.
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Ignoring the rest of your post for the moment, this part ... "In addition, their lift-off is hilarious. They couldn't fire anything like boosters in a studio, so they just pulled it up and sped up the film. Nobody would've survived those Gs. Plain out sidesplitting!" ...Is side splitting.
You've calculated the rate of assent from the film presumably? You would have to, to be able to state that they couldn't "survive those G's". So what G's have you calculated they would have been subject to?
From an end user perspective, targeted advertising simply does not work, for example:-
I booked a hotel for a weekend in London, I chose the hotel in Last Minute but went straight to the hotel's website to book it as it's very often cheaper than the "bargain" sites.
From that point for the next three or four months, on any site that served targeted ads, I received an advertisement for the hotel that I'd just booked, for the same weekend I'd booked.
Now if targeted advertising actually wanted to be useful the ads I'd have seen would be for events and/or offers on in London over the weekend I'd booked. For example, £5 off Tower of London entry or a advertising a food festival in Greenwich (this was on at the time).
Targeted advertising just doesn't work in any useful way.
That was the home security and alarm system Nest Secure, not the Nest Thermostat; there is no microphone in the thermostat.
"Google confirms with Business Insider that there's no microphone in any of its flagship Nest Learning Thermostat product line "
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-nest-products-with-microphones-2019-2?r=US&IR=T
US Citizen ends up dead if they have no money and no insurance.
The UK citizen gets free treatment at source; I'm sorry about you mum but your experience isn't mine by any stretch of the imagination.
1. My mother, diagnosed with bowel cancer Jan 2000 - starts treatment before end of same month.
2. Friends father, diagnosed with stomach cancer May 2012 - starts treatment May 2012
3. Neighbours daughter, diagnosed with breast cancer December 2016 - starts treatment December 2016
Unfortunately my mothers cancer was too far advanced to respond to treatment and she passed away the next year, but the other two are still in remission.
I know that sometimes things go wrong in the NHS but it's still way better than the US system.
But that not the same thing; you've already said the trigger word so I would expect the device to be "listening" after doing so. But the proposal above, that Alexa starts recording before the trigger words is spoken, on the off change that it will be spoken at some point in the very near future seems, to me, to be improbable.
"Alexa record a bit before the keyword - and Amazon submitted a new patent last week, where Alexa will send several seconds of voice to the mother-ship before the keyword is spoken (presumably for "what is the weather outside, Alexa?")."
How would the device know when to start recording? It couldn't "know" that the trigger word would be coming eventually, unless Amazon have developed a working prophecy algorithm; so I'm sorry but I don't see how this could be working in the real world as it were?
"you see colder temperatures on a cloudy day. it couldn't be more obvious that WATER _IS_ a GREENHOUSE GAS."
Actually you don't necessarily; currently the UK is looking at having the warmest days of the year so far over this weekend, a cloudy weekend by the way. Last weekend was clear skies and sunny and the temperature was less than it will be this weekend.
"I am old enough to remember the Ozone hole layer panic - the one that said that if we don't stop the hole we were all doomed in a few years. The hole is still, slowly, increasing and more than a few years have passed. I think we're all still here."
The ozone "hole" is repairing it's self, primarily due to us stopping releasing CFC's into the atmosphere
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/05/ozone-layer-healing-after-aerosols-un-northern-hemisphere
Nobody has suggested that those cycles don't exist, but that human activity is increasing the volatility of those cycles by the re-introduction of CO2 that was previously locked away in coal and oil deposits.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas, that is a fact; it reduces the amount of infrared that is re-radiated from the Earths surface, causing the atmosphere to warm up.
Nobody "fiddled" the figures; here is the full story but not from The Daily Mail or Fox News:-
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/feb/09/whistleblower-i-knew-people-would-misuse-this-they-did-to-attack-climate-science
The "Deal breaker" will be the lack of apps available in the "store" of the new OS; people stating there are other alternatives for email and web browsing are thinking about what is available in the Google Play library. Those alternatives won't be available to Huawei if they produce their own OS.
And that argument falls flat when CD Project Red sent me a replacement Witcher 3 disk when mine became unreadable, free of charge. All I had to do was email them a picture of the game packaging including the disk(s) .
The replacement arrived less than a week after requesting it.
And, if you "break" your disk why would you expect it to be replaced for free? if you buy anything and "break" it, would you expect it to be replaced free of charge?
There is a cost to a physical disk, not to mention the cost associated with handling and postage/packaging.
Same here, none of it is "necessary" but it is convenient; after all, nobody really *needs* a remote control for their TV, they could just get off their posteriors and turn on/off/change channel etc. But who would buy a new TV without a remote control these days?*
* Yes I know most remote controls don't demand internet access, but the point is still valid.
I general I can get on with Windows 10 but not the Settings Panels; Control Panel served it's purpose perfectly well and was one place to find, pretty much, all the settings. Now there are multiple pages of badly organised links that still don't lead you to what you want.
While I fully agree with you with regards to the high street's eventual fate, I do wonder how you would expect the road systems to handle the traffic if, as you seem to be suggesting, there were to be a traffic/parking free for all in our towns and cites?
My local county town for instance is a complete nightmare to navigate through, as the road system just cannot handle the numbers of vehicles attempting to pass through it; if parking wasn't strictly regulated and people parked wherever they wanted, there would be gridlock within minutes.
Parking schemes, in the main, are not there "to fleece" the motorist but to attempt to keep our cities roads, "planned" in times before Mr Ford setup his factories, at least passable and keep modern traffic moving.
Not an issue for me, I very rarely listen to music on my phone and need to charge it at the same time; in fact I can't think when I have ever needed to do that in the 3.5 years I've had my current phone. If it was something I actually needed I'd by some Bluetooth ear buds.
I am in the market for a new phone to replace my Nexus 6P and I've narrowed it down to a Pixel 3XL or Oneplus 6T; I'm leaning towards the OnePlus as a £200 saving is quite a chunk of money, but I do worry that updates, or lack thereof, could be an issue.