Damn, Google
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I was looking up something on the Google Maps and noticed this. It's the Best Buy near me. I'll be damned if they don't have a map of the store in the map.
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@ttyymmnn has science gone too far?
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I endorse all innovations that will allow me to go shopping in a Mini in places I'm not supposed to drive.
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@ttyymmnn The original Italian Job.
AKA the movie Leonard Maltin Just. Does. Not. Get.His review of it seems to indicate he thinks it's just a heist movie. Which it isn't. It's a long character study and national rivalries satire disguised as a crime picture. It's like mistaking Cannonball Run for a race movie.
Everything English is played to the hilt, and then played further. All the characters are eccentric English stereotypes of various backgrounds or positions in society, and the heist of Italian gold is only funded by the gang lord (played by Noel Coward, living like Napoleon in exile in a prison he basically runs) because he's an ardent royalist who is convinced to do it as a matter of national pride.
The Italians are also stereotypes in every way that's conceivable and some that aren't.
A lot of the draw is from Michael Caine as an incorrigible, sort of an irrepressible English schoolboy criminal who never seems to have quite proceeded past adolescence. However, there's also Benny Hill as a professor who's family have hushed him up in an institute because he's mentally deranged around large women... and so on.
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@ttyymmnn welcome to like 5 years ago? Lol
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@ramblinrover For many years, I would watch Leonard Maltin to see which movies he hated so I could know which ones I was sure I would like and should see.
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So, I can use this to see if a place has a decent bathroom before I go in? Sweet. They should have Street View in the restrooms.
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@Chariotoflove Maltin is an odd duck. He falls victim to the usual snobbery and foreign film basking of so many, but at the same time as seeming to lose his mind over a film being "clever", it seems that any film that is both clever and quirky he finds off-putting.
Ebert was a little more bipolar on sometimes really liking a movie of questionable appeal if not some lofty conceit of merit, and sometimes being down on a movie just for being systematically silly. Maltin's common thing might just be that he's a little bit dull in his tastes.
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Adding these additional maps is good business for Google. They get a better idea about what you are shopping for by looking at which stores you look at. The longer you have the store map up, the more confident Google is that you are interested in that store. This gives them more data about you that they can sell to advertisers. You can probably expect more targeted adds from electronics retailers in your future.
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@poor_sh said in Damn, Google:
@ttyymmnn welcome to like 5 years ago? Lol
Eh, I'm not that observant sometimes.
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@ramblinrover Ebert showed an ability to sometimes just be entertained without the film having some greater artistic purpose. It was those times he would most often also differ from his colleague Siskel. I appreciated those times. "Because I like it" should be reason enough for watching a movie.
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@ramblinrover The Italian Job 2: Electric [Avenue] Boogaloo
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@ttyymmnn had that for a while in my area. Handy for grocery stores, maybe?
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It's outdated now, but this was a very interesting read when it came out.
https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-apple-maps
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Also Home Depot has a layout on Google maps too. Not Lowes though
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Best Buy is still in business?
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Some employee was probably way too bored. Just wait until they reposition a shelf and you'll have to recalculate your route to the appliance section.
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@chariotoflove As would be the case with any piece or art
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They’ve done it for malls for a while, which makes much more sense.
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This is outdated but related: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
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LOL. We posted the same article.
Still fascinating how much Google knows about the world. Also, terrifying.
