It's as if any play is for a given audience, and we have to bridge the gap with our own imagination. Crazy, right? 😆
Mind, I'm not criticizing your point, I agree with it, Hollywood has never been great with accents, it just has to be "good enough", like watching a stage play and the props have to be "good enough".
I'm not sure I follow? His character is Egyptian, he was immortal. Though I take OP's point, he couldn't really be Scottish since he had been alive long before Scotland existed, possibly before the Picts even.
I'm sure large businesses are doing exactly that. It's one of the first things I thought of - if you and I can think of it, you know Corp is already on it.
By default, the security concerns do massively outweigh the benefits, to me. On my work machine the benefits outweigh the security issues, because it's tightly locked down.
But if we can figure out how to safely implement such a system with very tight controls, it will be a huge game changer for individuals.
MS did some research in the 90's (related to My Life Bits) and determined how much data a person engaged with during an average day, and even then it was more than anyone could hope to manage.
Tires make all the difference. Both the size/proportion and materials.
I've had RWD cars that were beasts in the snow (East Coast ice no less) because they were near perfect weight distribution and had the best winter tires on the market (Nokian).
I've had AWD cars that sucked, because the car was poorly balanced, the tire sidewall was too small (so the tire can't flex much), entry level winter tires (rubber was harder), and stupid electronic traction control that tried to out think the driver but just got in the way.
RWD will still usually be more challenging to drive than AWD (I think even more so with RWD cars post 2000), though some AWD systems can be unpredictable. Part of the issue with newer RWD cars is the tire sizes - it can be hard to get proper winter tires (plus they cost a lot). I've seen some cars for which winter tires didn't exist, or were exorbitantly expensive to get (it's assumed by both car and tire manufacturers that these cars won't be driven in snow).
Fortunately Subaru uses a dead simple AWD system (basically open diffs at each end) - the most complex thing they do is use the brakes for traction control/torque distribution, which is less likely (In my experience) to get in the way than things like electronic diffs (can you tell I'm a fan of Subaru AWD?).
I recently switched my cell service to JMP.chat, which pipes your SMS into XMPP (it's brilliant, SMS is no longer tied to a physical device or SIM). I still get spam sms, but it's far less an issue.
Plus I can pop any Sim into my phone and it has no affect on my phone number that's with JMP. That all remains in XMPP, and the new SIM would just provide a different data connection (and it's own number with its own voice and SMS).
Absolutely, and it reflects the audience it's targeting.
Which is why Roger Moore's is clearly if it's time (which even then I thought was pretty bad, but it was entertaining).
I just don't find melodrama to be entertaining, and the new Bond is all melodrama. Just like some old movies I don't watch because the melodramatic score cheapens the actual drama.
This is a problem with a lot of movie and TV today, this hand-holding of the audience. It's patronizing, and boring.
Definitely preferred Pierce, a significant improvement over the absolute camp of Roger Moore (which was a product of its time).
I do understand the reasoning for the direction with Craig, at least that relied on why Bond was the way he was (as described in Her Majesty's Secret Service).
And I consider it unfortunate that most viewers didn't know this about Bond in the earlier movies.
Never watched any Batman, they all looked like cheap crap.
Not just Europe, everywhere. Look at all the breaches, every day.
Until those breaches cost companies serious money, they won't do anything about it.