Posts by Will Godfrey 5929 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Sep 2007
After seeing some quite inexplicable downvotes over the years, I'm convinced that there are some commentards who get some weird buzz out of hitting the downvote arrow, and another lot that have been staring at a monitor too close and for too long so can't really see what they're doing.
About 30 years ago in a pub, a girl in her late teens sang 'Streets of London' accompanying herself with a guitar. There was utter silence until she finished after which the pub near exploded with applause, and I don't think there was a dry eye in the place. I'll never forget it.
I don't envisage AI ever getting anywhere near such an emotional performance.
I say old bean. That's a bit unfair. ErReg commentards are of the thinking, reading, class - usually employing both communicating brain cells.
We are not at all like the antisocial media denizens - even though we apparently have the same number of arms and legs.
P.S. yes. I did follow that link. Very clever.
Yes, but they didn't include any adverts, and the TVs worked well for months - usually, depending on customer interference. I was one of their engineers in the late 1960s, and was watching colour TV when most couldn't afford the extra on the rental.
These days I don't have a TV at all. Nothing on there I can be bothered with.
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