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For Seattle Women Called Alexa, Frustrating To Share Name With Amazon Device (seattletimes.com)
Reader reifman writes: Since Amazon introduced the Alexa-enabled Echo device in 2014, the jokes have become so omnipresent that Alexa Philbeck, 29, briefly considered changing, or at least obscuring, her name. The Seattle Times speaks to four women unfortunately called Alexa in a town that may soon be known as Seamazon.
Give it a break Amazon PR, no one uses Alexa.
Seems a lot better than annoying Alexas and Siris.
"Hey, Bezos! Turn on my light and get me a movie!"
'Lights on and how is the movie AI?"
"Hey Bezos! I wanna watch Doctor Who!"
"What season?"
""Hey Bezos! I need groceries and a blowjob!"
"Grocery order coming up and please select what sex toy you want."
Think about it. The ability to act like your ordering a billionaire around. Just think of the marketing potential!
They could just shorten your name from "Elizabeth" to "Beth", instead.
C'mon, didn't Trump give someone an ugly look or fart during a meeting or something? Someone go check wapo.com.
No, but it would be a good idea to call the next one "Trump".
Nobody's going to be calling their kids "Trump" anytime soon.
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No, but it would be a good idea to call the next one "Trump".
Nobody's going to be calling their kids "Trump" anytime soon.
This will likely cause hilarious problems in homes that have old folks who are Pinochle players...
My name is "Ok Google" and I live in San Francisco.
Alexa sounds like a name for a Backpage prostitute.
SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT
The unix command line stream editor sed is as old as unix. It uses / as the delimiter to denote strings. But it is trivially easy to change the delimiter if your strings contain /. It does not use a backup delimiter to allow / because what if the string is going to have both / and the backup delimiter? It allows one to use ANY ASCII character as the delimiter. Unless your strings contain ALL the ASCII character you would be able to find a delimiter.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Then how do you pronounce it? Sue-Doo or Sue-Doh?
You don't even realize that you HAVE driven about 50% of the intelligent people to other sites do you?
Until your muslim neighbor blows your house up with you in it.
Have gnu, will travel.
Like "Ok-Google", "Cortana" or even "Siri" (although, in all fairness, maybe siri and cortana exist in non-western cultures)...
That way, there is no interference with people with the same name as the virtual Assistants...
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
It's weird that we call them "baby names", when most people carry their name through their whole life.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
You're telling the computer to do something in the context of another user (generally root/admin) who has permission/capability to perform the command. A perfectly valid english interpretation is, "Pseudo-chef, Make me a sandwich"
Therefore both pronunciations are valid.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
You've obviously missed the stories of some 40 people in the country who happen to be named not just Donald, or not just Trump, but Donald Trump. Not including his son & grandson.
change wake word to "Computer" and watch Star Trek.
You don't even realize you replied to an imposter.
... how hard it must be for girls called "Siri", or even "Google Now".
And somebody has it worse: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
She's Suri.
It seems to me that the most appropriate response to someone trying to give you orders because your name is "Alexa" is to say "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".
the site is yet another POS that uses CSS to hide the content then javascript to unhide it. fortunately, it's fairly easy to work around shit like that.
in firefox or chromium etc, open up the element inspector, find the body element, and disable the "visibility: hidden !important" property.
if you read articles from this, or similar, sites regularly, install the Stylish plugin (available for both chromium and firefox) and create a CSS override fragment for the site(s). something like:
body { visibility: inherit !important; }
btw, the specific method of content-hiding arsewipery varies from site to site, but they're generally pretty easy to find once you know what to look for. and related sites usually use the same methods so you can apply the same stylish rule to a whole bunch of them.
I've known a Siri, short for Serena.
Alexa kind of fits as a name for a Seattle hipster barmaid, but Phil would be hipper..
Hate to break it to you, yet here is just one of many articles to contradict you:
https://heatst.com/politics/ir...
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.