The satirical TV show "Royal Canadian Air Farce" puts videos of their skits online. This is one they did in April of 2001: "Professor Aphazard demonstrates how to prevent the most hated domestic pest - unwanted salespersons." They have a bit on telemarketers. Unfortunately, they only provide the video in Real Media. It's 2 minutes and 30 seconds long. It's quite funny, IMHO. ^.^ Streams:
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What are the makers of Radlight thinking ?
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If they think they are going to bypass such things as deleting the spyware programs that it comes with, HA!
"Today, the multimedia program was no longer available from CNET. According to a copy of the download page cached by the Google search engine, over 750,000 copies of RadLight had been downloaded from CNET as of February 2002."
I feel bad for those who downloaded this program. They obviously don't know about WinAMP. Also, why not check the DivX website for players that support DivX and not spyware .
"Radlight software indeed checks for the default Ad-aware installation path, and then removes all files that are not currently in use, upon its first execution."
It seems that it checks only once, so reinstalling Ad-Aware wouldn't be much of a problem. OR you could just install into a different directory than the default.
"Newsbytes has confirmed that installing RadLight version 3.03 deletes Lavasoft's Ad-Aware program, as promised in a warning in the software's 1,100-word license agreement."
Not too many people I know read EULA's unless they are looking for something specific, especially when it's 1100 words.
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You must be easily ammused then. How about attempting to get technical support up there. I doubt you would get very far.
I find this story repulsive and, not surprisingly, insensitive to death. Looks like the office junkies are as desensitized as most of North Americans are. Isn't TV and website advertisement enough to drive their game into gamers' heads?
A spokeswoman for the company... said: "It's a dark, gory type of game and we thought it was appropriate to raise advertising to a new level."
Who is the target audience here? I wonder how many people are going to say to themselves "Wow, I think I'm going to buy ShadowMan 2 now!" after going to see their mother's or father's grave who passed away a few years back, possibly from being shot to death.
Ya, economy is low and I don't blame Acclaim for trying to be original, but this is plain ignorance. I'd like to kick the person in the ass who thought up this absurd idea, and two kicks to the CEO or whoever put this plan into gear.
Advertisements draw attention to themselves and take it away from other things. When you take attention away from something as personal as mourning the death of a loved one, it's simply rude. There are times to buy a new game and there are times for mourning. They should never intersect.
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The satirical TV show "Royal Canadian Air Farce" puts videos of their skits online. This is one they did in April of 2001:
"Professor Aphazard demonstrates how to prevent the most hated domestic pest - unwanted salespersons."
They have a bit on telemarketers. Unfortunately, they only provide the video in Real Media. It's 2 minutes and 30 seconds long. It's quite funny, IMHO. ^.^
Streams: Low Quality | Medium Quality | High Quality
Download: High Quality
"Today, the multimedia program was no longer available from CNET. According to a copy of the download page cached by the Google search engine, over 750,000 copies of RadLight had been downloaded from CNET as of February 2002."
I feel bad for those who downloaded this program. They obviously don't know about WinAMP. Also, why not check the DivX website for players that support DivX and not spyware .
"Radlight software indeed checks for the default Ad-aware installation path, and then removes all files that are not currently in use, upon its first execution."
It seems that it checks only once, so reinstalling Ad-Aware wouldn't be much of a problem. OR you could just install into a different directory than the default.
"Newsbytes has confirmed that installing RadLight version 3.03 deletes Lavasoft's Ad-Aware program, as promised in a warning in the software's 1,100-word license agreement."
Not too many people I know read EULA's unless they are looking for something specific, especially when it's 1100 words.
You must be easily ammused then. How about attempting to get technical support up there. I doubt you would get very far.
A spokeswoman for the company... said: "It's a dark, gory type of game and we thought it was appropriate to raise advertising to a new level."
Who is the target audience here? I wonder how many people are going to say to themselves "Wow, I think I'm going to buy ShadowMan 2 now!" after going to see their mother's or father's grave who passed away a few years back, possibly from being shot to death.
Ya, economy is low and I don't blame Acclaim for trying to be original, but this is plain ignorance. I'd like to kick the person in the ass who thought up this absurd idea, and two kicks to the CEO or whoever put this plan into gear.
Advertisements draw attention to themselves and take it away from other things. When you take attention away from something as personal as mourning the death of a loved one, it's simply rude. There are times to buy a new game and there are times for mourning. They should never intersect.