= Сообщение: 10828 из 12492 ===================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 25 May 21 12:14:01 Кому : Michiel van der Vlist 25 May 21 12:14:01 Тема : #eurovission FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+60accde8 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+60ac9a26 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP437 ================================== ============================================================================== On Tue, 25 May 2021 08:22:14 Michiel van der Vlist -> David Rance wrote:
MvdV> Hello David,
MvdV> On Monday May 24 2021 15:32, you wrote to me:
MvdV>>> Indeed, the only one with zero points. I do not know how they MvdV>>> did that, I didn't watch, but it must be something outstanding. MvdV>>> Vive la Brexit! ;-)
DR>> That's what I mean - and I didn't watch it either! No-one else has DR>> ever managed zero points from both the judges *and* the public.
MvdV> Indeed.
MvdV> Once in what seems a former life, we were discussing multiple choice MvdV> tests. One collegue remarked: "if a student gets zero points in a MvdV> multiple choice test, keep an eye on him/her. He/She either knows MvdV> exactly what he/she is doing or he/she is a statistical anomaly.
Forgive me if I've mentioned this before but:
We had a girl at the school where I taught. She had a brilliant brain and went on to Cambridge. But she simply could not do multiple choice questions because she could think of valid answers for more than one of the options. I think eventually she had a nervous breakdown.
DR>> To my mind, I think the UK is thoroughly fed up with this silly DR>> contest (I know I am) and we're just sending it up.
MvdV> In the beginning it was worth watching, if only for the technology. MvdV> Remember that in the early days each country had its own television MvdV> standard. An EU wide broadcast was a major technical challenge. The MvdV> line converter in Brussels was a concoction of vacuum tubes filling a MvdV> room the size of an indoor sports hall. Fascinating!
Fascinating for you and anyone interested in the technology, but you probably didn't enjoy it for its primary raison d'être, a musical spectacle.
MvdV> Now every set top box can do line conversion as an aside...
.... and more. I know! I took a British flat screen television over to France a year or so back. I plugged it in and it just worked! I couldn't have done that thirty years ago.
David
-- Formerly ICHTHUS (Reading) UK (1987-2007 R.I.P.) (2:292/854.110)
