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Greetings Kind Regards
I sent an email (or is it e-mail my personal preference) via gmail in which I made reference to a particular auto I drove many years ago. A few hours later on the MSN news site an advertisement for the same auto make was presented. It was accompanied w/ an image. The image was of the same model to which I made reference even approximately the same year even though it was several decades ago which could have been roughly calculated from the e-mail discussion even the same color to which I made only indirect reference as it appeared in a film.
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What is this "gentlemen" of which you speak?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I know the "read each others' mail" references.
I was being sarcastic about the (null set?) intersection of "gmail" and "gentlemen".
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Thank you for your kind exposition. Upon consideration I am not certain the intersection of which you speak is a null set as Google employs many presumed gentlemen. Perhaps the intersection is self disqualifying as "gentlemen" do not read each other's mail which proves your assertion.
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I laughed. I farted. 10/10 
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They don't use gentlemen; they use ladies. 
But yes. Anything sent via Gmail get fed into Google's tracking data. Remember - if you're not paying for a product, you are the product.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Earlier it was called Mind Reading.
Now it's called Recommender System.
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They've apparently improved their algorithm : last time I sent email talking about sun cream and got ads for cups of strawberries with whipped cream).
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Shoot, we can't even think something and social media is on it (or so it would seem).
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They are getting bigger every year: soon we'll have to start fitting them diagonally across the building just to get them in!
But fear not! There is a solution: The TinyTV 2[^]
Or even The Tiny TV Mini[^] for the kids! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I've never had any problem taking my projector through any door I went through, and the picture is much bigger than any large TV I would allow myself to buy.
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And how does the picture quality compare?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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not bad depending on your age and eye sight 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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But do note the message near the bottom of the ad:
Note: This does not receive over-the-air television content, nor can it wirelessly livestream.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: But do note the message near the bottom of the ad:
Which ad would that be? Did someone's response get deleted?
trønderen wrote: Note: This does not receive over-the-air television content, nor can it wirelessly livestream.
I can't imagine wanting to watch actual OTA content on a projector.
And IMO you're always better off running off a cable than any unreliable wireless setup.
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If the web page https://tinycircuits.com/products/tinytv-2[^] filling a page in a printed medium, with text, photos (video admittedly makes some problems in print), price and ordering information, ... What would you call it?
I would call it an ad. I see the same text, photos, price and ordering information filling a window on my screen. I still call it an ad. I see no distinction to make me label it otherwise. Of course it could have been published with some irrelevant news story above and below, and TinyCircuits could have paid the web newspaper for presenting the TinyTV ad in the middle of their story, but that doesn't change the nature of the TinyTV stuff. In either case, it is promotional information published for the purpose of making people like you and I by that product. That's what ads are for.
What would you call it?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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OK. I totally missed the fact that you were referring all the way back to the original post that started this thread. I only went back to my own original response and its series of follow-ups.
There was no nefarious intent here. I honestly thought you were quoting from a link that appeared within that scope.
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I have a problem: If I attach a comment too high in the comment tree, the author of that comment screams out: That comment wasn't meant for me!, ignoring that we are in an open forum were responses are seen by everybody, not just some single poster.
So in attempt to avoid those 'Why do you tell this to me?? responses, I have chosen to add my follow-up comments to leaf nodes, so that no authors of intermediate nodes will be offended by suspecting that my comment directly elates to (and possibly contradicts) their post.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I always follows up to the message I directly want to respond to, and if I need to bring in something that's no longer directly referenced in the previous post, I'll go back to the original and quote it as part of my response. It generally seems to work well enough.
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Better than my eyesight. I'm happy with my 1080p projector.
There's 4K projectors out there, but I don't have nearly enough 4K content just yet to justify the extra $ they want for them.
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I was watching a (very silly) film last night, and smiled at the following exchange:
Woman: "I don't have a TV".
Man: "I can get you one, a 19 inch model".
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The question begs to be asked - what decade was that movie made in?
That, and TV shows/movies where the use of phones/flip phones/smart phones are a key part of the storyline. They age rather poorly.
Or general gadgetry. I'm reminded of the time Knight Rider first came out on DVD and I started watching a few episodes. Didn't that show look futuristic back then? Today it's laughable, and I'm not just talking about David Hasselhoff's acting.
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Gotcha. So they were very much aware of what was being said, and that was the joke.
One could've gone back a few decades prior and been totally serious with that line.
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