Hell I eat LOTS of animals but if vegetarian foods were more readily available (they are? - I mean even MORE) I could easily do without the tasty tasty critters
I'm guessing the hunters out there would argue that there isn't any sport in getting up and 3am and tracking a head of lettuce across a garden.
Actually, Dell keeps putting theirs on sale. If you watch slickdeals.net for a week or so you're almost guarenteed to see a sale.
Last time, the 2001FP went for $422 (I think) and the 2005FPW went for $387 (I think). Something to that effect, and the prices tend to go down every 2 or 3 weeks.
I couldn't agree more. Stern, Data East and Gottleib machines never felt right. Bally and WIlliams machines always had the right feel. They were usually great games too.
I recently gave up my arcade in order to keep from having to throw everything in storage and then move it, when our new house is finished being built (a lot needed work so wasn't that big a deal to dump em). The only part that really hurt was the selling of my High Speed and Pinbot machines. I miss them.
But, when I move into my new place later this year, I'll be persuing an Attack From Mars.
Honestly, I don't know the rules now, as I haven't been involved in this in well over 5 years, and cell phones weren't as prevalant then.
There's likely a couple of scenarios
1) Your cell phone number could be the person's previous number
2) The person they're looking for mistyped (or misgave) their number out at some point (made one up, mistyped, whatever) and it managed to find its way to their file (be it via credit report or whatever)
3) The number is wrong in some database
4) If they were skip-tracing (trying to locate the person) one of the leads they followed may have somehow gotten them to your number (in whatever weird/wrong/mistaken way)
If it's not you, explain to them that you're not the person, that you're on a cell phone and never heard of the person, and explain that it's illegal for them to keep calling you on that number since you have to pay for it every time they call (It may be, it may not be. I don't knwo for sure, but the rep surely won't and they could freak and immediatly mark it as a block)
You could push it up to a supervisor there, or find out the company and call an independant number back and speak to someone about getting the number removed from their files
Also maybe try threating a FDCPA violation (Fair Debt and Collections Practices Act) by telling them they're continuously calling an invalid point of contact, with someone who has no knowledge of who the person they're looking for is, and that you have already explained it's a bad number. Further calls are harrassament and you can report them (To who, I don't know; look up FDCPA):)
Probably not the most useful info, but hopefully a start. Good luck:)
it may be a debt collection agency/living will type phone call. If theyre trying to get a hold of you, theyre required by law to not even state that theyre a collection agency to anyone other than you
That is correct. Debt collection agencies (I used to work in the collections department of Very Big Credit Card Company) are not allowed to leave any personal information with 3rd parties. An answering machine can be considered a 3rd party.
Because of this, they generally don't identify. That and, if you're avoding paying your credit card bill, yuo aren't likely to stick around for the rep once you know that it's the company on the phone.
As for the reason for the bot in the first place, the companies have a certain amount of staff manning the phones. The computer system has a dialing job of all people needing to be called.
Lots of numbers are busy or no answer. So, when the bot detects an answer, it immediatly passed the call through to the next available rep. Sometimes there may not be one available for a moment.
I don't care some much about the avoiding the commercials, as much as I care about being able to get past the few minutes that aren't the show. I don't like being forced to break up the show.
With TiVo, I record, and when I watch I forward past the commercials so that I can continue watching. Granted I hate commercials but they don't bother me so much when watching Live. I just hate having to wait to continue with the show.
There has been speculation that this would happen for more than 6 months, it was only a question of when and whether it was Sirius or XM.
IIRC, XM is owned (at least partially) by Clear Channel. If that's the case, it was never a question. CC is the company that booted Howard from 6(?) markets after Nipplegate occured, when Howard interviewed the guy in the Paris Hilton video. No way would he sign with a Clear Channel company.
Even with iChat there is still heavy development of Adium, Fire and Proteus
And Justin (the original creator of Proteus) recently graduated college, handed over the reigns of Proteus to other developers, and went to work for Apple on their iChat team. so, who knows what could be in store (though I believe he is working in a QA aspect at the moment)
How do you hack into a computer without a password?
By sitting at the computer, looking around the desk and recalling some trivial piece of information about the owner, even though you've never had it. You're guarenteed to get in by your 3rd attempt or you movie admission ticket will be refunded.
Yeah, for this kind of audience. I laugh out loud at least once every time I read/. and I wish other people could understand some of the humor here but it won't happen. I think the majority of readers here are blessed with a higher level of intelligence than the rest of society.
It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with, we're part of the same field of interest and thus understand what's being implied.
If we were sitting at a table and overheard a group of brain surgeons telling a story and one said something like "...and he tried to use a WZ427 blade for the incision!!!!!!" and they all started laughing hysterically, we'd be like "WTF???".
That's because we don't know the subject matter, not because we're less intelligent.
Ok, it's a Swedish programming language. Thus, I'm assuming that error handling consists of log entries reading "[Bork Bork Bork!!] Some error text here"
Slashdot Mirror
"Goggle Slashdot"
:)
Does that make you drink beer until Slashdot stories/dupes look better??
I found it VERY suspicious that they were touting the price when they aren't including any storage space.
:)
Maybe they actually ARE including storage, but it's very cheap because they outsourced it to China!
Hell I eat LOTS of animals but if vegetarian foods were more readily available (they are? - I mean even MORE) I could easily do without the tasty tasty critters
:)
I'm guessing the hunters out there would argue that there isn't any sport in getting up and 3am and tracking a head of lettuce across a garden.
"Yep. Bagged me a 12oz salad. A Ceasar!"
any more than the Chinese named something "noodles" in Marco Polo's time
Yes but to be fair, they were too busy searching for him in the water, with their eyes closed, to have the time to think up the name "noodles"...
Actually, Dell keeps putting theirs on sale. If you watch slickdeals.net for a week or so you're almost guarenteed to see a sale.
Last time, the 2001FP went for $422 (I think) and the 2005FPW went for $387 (I think). Something to that effect, and the prices tend to go down every 2 or 3 weeks.
I couldn't agree more. Stern, Data East and Gottleib machines never felt right. Bally and WIlliams machines always had the right feel. They were usually great games too.
I recently gave up my arcade in order to keep from having to throw everything in storage and then move it, when our new house is finished being built (a lot needed work so wasn't that big a deal to dump em). The only part that really hurt was the selling of my High Speed and Pinbot machines. I miss them.
But, when I move into my new place later this year, I'll be persuing an Attack From Mars.
"...had to buy that guy a new hat"
Now, is it just me and Bruce Willis, or did you like Hudson Hawk too?
Intersting... my wife is addicted to diet vanilla coke and LOVES Hudson Hawk.
I'm wondering the correlation
Honestly, I don't know the rules now, as I haven't been involved in this in well over 5 years, and cell phones weren't as prevalant then.
:)
:)
There's likely a couple of scenarios
1) Your cell phone number could be the person's previous number
2) The person they're looking for mistyped (or misgave) their number out at some point (made one up, mistyped, whatever) and it managed to find its way to their file (be it via credit report or whatever)
3) The number is wrong in some database
4) If they were skip-tracing (trying to locate the person) one of the leads they followed may have somehow gotten them to your number (in whatever weird/wrong/mistaken way)
If it's not you, explain to them that you're not the person, that you're on a cell phone and never heard of the person, and explain that it's illegal for them to keep calling you on that number since you have to pay for it every time they call (It may be, it may not be. I don't knwo for sure, but the rep surely won't and they could freak and immediatly mark it as a block)
You could push it up to a supervisor there, or find out the company and call an independant number back and speak to someone about getting the number removed from their files
Also maybe try threating a FDCPA violation (Fair Debt and Collections Practices Act) by telling them they're continuously calling an invalid point of contact, with someone who has no knowledge of who the person they're looking for is, and that you have already explained it's a bad number. Further calls are harrassament and you can report them (To who, I don't know; look up FDCPA)
Probably not the most useful info, but hopefully a start. Good luck
it may be a debt collection agency/living will type phone call. If theyre trying to get a hold of you, theyre required by law to not even state that theyre a collection agency to anyone other than you
That is correct. Debt collection agencies (I used to work in the collections department of Very Big Credit Card Company) are not allowed to leave any personal information with 3rd parties. An answering machine can be considered a 3rd party.
Because of this, they generally don't identify. That and, if you're avoding paying your credit card bill, yuo aren't likely to stick around for the rep once you know that it's the company on the phone.
As for the reason for the bot in the first place, the companies have a certain amount of staff manning the phones. The computer system has a dialing job of all people needing to be called.
Lots of numbers are busy or no answer. So, when the bot detects an answer, it immediatly passed the call through to the next available rep. Sometimes there may not be one available for a moment.
Clearly you haven't had to put in a tech support call recently.
:)
Yeah, their accents are hardly detectable anymore...
I don't care some much about the avoiding the commercials, as much as I care about being able to get past the few minutes that aren't the show. I don't like being forced to break up the show.
With TiVo, I record, and when I watch I forward past the commercials so that I can continue watching. Granted I hate commercials but they don't bother me so much when watching Live. I just hate having to wait to continue with the show.
There has been speculation that this would happen for more than 6 months, it was only a question of when and whether it was Sirius or XM.
IIRC, XM is owned (at least partially) by Clear Channel. If that's the case, it was never a question. CC is the company that booted Howard from 6(?) markets after Nipplegate occured, when Howard interviewed the guy in the Paris Hilton video. No way would he sign with a Clear Channel company.
No, that would be GNUnad
And we the readers expect exactly ten (numbered) questions answered, all of them.
Apparently William Shatner didn't get that memo. Well technically he *did* answer them, but still....
Even with iChat there is still heavy development of Adium, Fire and Proteus
And Justin (the original creator of Proteus) recently graduated college, handed over the reigns of Proteus to other developers, and went to work for Apple on their iChat team. so, who knows what could be in store (though I believe he is working in a QA aspect at the moment)
Yep, both my wife and I got ours
How do you hack into a computer without a password?
By sitting at the computer, looking around the desk and recalling some trivial piece of information about the owner, even though you've never had it. You're guarenteed to get in by your 3rd attempt or you movie admission ticket will be refunded.
The correct way to respond to that is to tell them you do not want to receive anymore calls so could they please remove your number from their list.
No, that allows for the loop hole of "we removed you from that list. This week we have a new list."
You need to instruct them to put you on their Do Not Call list.
Yeah, for this kind of audience. I laugh out loud at least once every time I read /. and I wish other people could understand some of the humor here but it won't happen. I think the majority of readers here are blessed with a higher level of intelligence than the rest of society.
It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with, we're part of the same field of interest and thus understand what's being implied.
If we were sitting at a table and overheard a group of brain surgeons telling a story and one said something like "...and he tried to use a WZ427 blade for the incision!!!!!!" and they all started laughing hysterically, we'd be like "WTF???".
That's because we don't know the subject matter, not because we're less intelligent.
It's so AOL Newbies can write out their email.
Ok, it's a Swedish programming language. Thus, I'm assuming that error handling consists of log entries reading "[Bork Bork Bork!!] Some error text here"
>> Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
;-)
And of course, two Wright's make an airplane
You mean something like This?
The precedant was set for us in the late 70's/early 80's via Saturday morning cartoons.
It's a smaller Mozilla, so Mozuki. Sheesh, was that so hard??? =)