Try running Monty Python's argument sketch against the chatbot. Playing as the in house arguer (not as the customer), it quickly turned into a relentless "Yes! No!" discussion.
What's the USPS budget for rubber bands? Sometimes I get just one letter with a rubber band wrapped around it. I always leave the rubber band in the mailbox so they can at least re-use it.
You're on line at the supermarket, and the little old lady in front of you with her eggs and cheese is asked for her loyalty/discount card. Do you think she'll be faster pulling out a piece of plastic, or navigating through her mobile phone from menu to menu to app to option? And the same again if she's paying by credit card.
Credit/debit payments are gaining a foothold, but it's going to be a loooooong time until we even consider a cashless society.
And there's few things more enjoyable than giving real cash to a little niece or nephew.
Can we make the same for movies as well? I'm fed up with turning up the volume to hear the dialogue, then getting blasted with the stock footage of an airplane landing.
It's galled "gatekeeping." While it often feels and reeks of censorship, it's done by a private entity who controls their own output, just like a newspaper that decides not to run a certain story.
Slashdot Mirror
Mod up! Mod up!
Mindquad
I think it rhymes with "Hadouken"
Try running Monty Python's argument sketch against the chatbot. Playing as the in house arguer (not as the customer), it quickly turned into a relentless "Yes! No!" discussion.
What's the USPS budget for rubber bands? Sometimes I get just one letter with a rubber band wrapped around it. I always leave the rubber band in the mailbox so they can at least re-use it.
Didn't the wireframe animation appear in a monitor in a scene in "Westworld"?
You're on line at the supermarket, and the little old lady in front of you with her eggs and cheese is asked for her loyalty/discount card. Do you think she'll be faster pulling out a piece of plastic, or navigating through her mobile phone from menu to menu to app to option? And the same again if she's paying by credit card.
Credit/debit payments are gaining a foothold, but it's going to be a loooooong time until we even consider a cashless society.
And there's few things more enjoyable than giving real cash to a little niece or nephew.
Looks more like the Hunter-Killers from Terminator than it does a land speeder.
Spirograph?!?!
I'm imagining it with a little tiny string to start it like a lawnmower.
immyowngrandpa
How fitting it be that a bunch of landlubbers calling themselves "Avast" be victims of piracy.
More grog me boys!
Can we make the same for movies as well? I'm fed up with turning up the volume to hear the dialogue, then getting blasted with the stock footage of an airplane landing.
Is there a patent on translating patents?
Don't forget mopery!
Correction: a winkin' smiley
If I'm ever required to go into one of those scanners, I'm going to exit screaming "HULK SMASH!"
Now if Verizon would only get rid of the shortfall charge for not using enough long distance service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Rhodes_(wrestler)
Is is big bad wolf resistant?
Bicycles in China --> COMMUNISM!! It's an impenetrable proof!
The fashion sense of the presenter in those photos, with the ring and huge gold bracelet. Surprised the medallion didn't get in the way.
Is that a female Weird Al in the embedded clip in the article?
It's galled "gatekeeping." While it often feels and reeks of censorship, it's done by a private entity who controls their own output, just like a newspaper that decides not to run a certain story.
Doesn't the Lollipop Guild have representatives to handle this kind of financial crisis?