The monitoring itself is being outsource. Third parties, sometimes in other countries, are listening in when the rep asks you for you account number, mothers maiden name, etc. Thats a privacy issue about how my data is protected/not protected.
And this is a concern for you? I was outsourced to answer calls for a credit card line for a bank. Why do you even assume that the person taking the call is more legit than the person monitoring it? If either party is found to be conducting illegal activity, they will face the same penalties. And in the end it's the bank's fault for outsourcing it, so it will be thier loss, not yours. Even if you're not dealing with a bank, the company you're dealing with should wear the loss.
But just to freak you out a bit the bank I was working for would just fire anyone who commited fraud rather than take the case to court. Logic being that if the case was taken to court, then the media could get wind of it.
I wonder how many times they have heard me say 'If you are so concerned about your customer, don't make me wait on hold' or perhaps 'Thanks for my patience? Do I have a f'in choice?'
Everyone does this. You think the person monitoring it cares? I've never actually seen a system that can listen in to what you're saying when on hold though. I think it'd still be covered by 'your call may be recorded', given that the call could be defined as the moment your connection is made to the time that you hang up.
You generally here the same lines come out of customer's mouths (I assume this is the same anywhere). Generally "Can I help you with something else?" gets the response "You could deposit 1 million into my account" or "You could tell me tonight's lotto numbers".
While completly off topic, our scripting used to involve asking the person thier name. A lot of people would refuse... but strangely got offended when I called them Bob (especially when they were women). I didn't really like my job:)
My first thought was that they were going for an Australian Football League exclusive licence. Yeah, but it'd be hard to make a version better than the one that appeared on the NES. And it'd hardly be exclusive given that Acclaim have created PS2 and Xbox versions (AFL Live 2004).
but nah, if GTA was a system seller for me I'd have gotten a PS2
I often feel the need to go on violent rampages and steal cars on the way home from work, y'know I just can't wait until I get home. Sometimes it's gotten so bad that I've jacked someone because the train takes so long...
try RTFA
erm... what article? "You need to upgrade your Flash Player! Already have Flash Player? Click here if you have Flash Player 6 installed." does not count as an article. Nor does the 35MB trailer (eh... I downloaded a newer flash to watch a Quicktime or WMV file?). It'd be nice if there was just a list. Hmmm... maybe I don't want to WTFT?
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Oh yeah it will show you a current weather report too.
Yeah, but so will windows.
Every morning I wake up and look at windows and I've got a current weather report.
It is entirely plausible that these kids were *inspired* by their video games, or perhaps by a movie they saw. Gotta get your ideas from somewhere...
Gee.. I don't know... off the top of my head I think, just maybe, the grafitti in thier town inspired them. Hmmm... I know it's a silly concept. Why would I even think that, let alone post it on/.?
Of course they may live in a town without any grafitti at all (but the only towns I've seen like that are in Nintendo games...)
Perhaps if the monkey had been Donkey Kong it would have taken off?
Or perhaps Sonic... hmmm... that'd be interesting for Sega to do... Sonic Bongo Battle
Nintendo announces a new system to replace the GBA (the Game Boy Ultra or whatever). No picutres of it anywhere. It's a total myster the specs, the form, the games, everything. You just show up at a store on launch day with your $100 or $150 and buy a system and any games they have. Would you buy that system?
As much as I love Nintendo, no. I'm not going to run out and buy every new Gameboy. If I did I'd have a Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, GBA:SP and a DS (or in your example an Ultra). I generally by every second gameboy (Pocket, Advance, DS) as Nintendo seems to be putting out a lot of revision versions (where they fix problems).
But generally I will buy before I try, but not sight unseen.
but this valley was started because companies like IBM were already here...
Wait a minute... IBM lives in New York. And the valley is in California. And according to my map, California and New York are on the opposite sides of the US. So you're saying that all these companies are only in Silicon Valley because IBM is in New York? I suppose that makes sense actually...
Australia has been granted the ability to claim any person that does okay in music, movies or tv as an Australian, as long as they come from an island country. They are then subject to the anti-tall poppy syndrome. As soon as they go insane or do badly they are no longer Australians (such as Mel Gibson and Russel Crowe). Some people claim that John Howard is an Australian, the actor is, the prime minister may be an American...
I'm not sure that her recent films are quite as good as BMX Bandits, but there you go...
if you are concerned about your privacy and protecting it from the warrant system, you're about two hundred years late in complaining.
Hmmm... if the police weren't tapping the miner's phones, maybe, just maybe the eureka stockade might have been a successs and we'd (Australians) er... have a flag without the union jack?
Hmmm... clearly a troll, but hey... I'll explain...;)
PSP stands for Portable Sans Power (the article should have given this away). This is a very clever acronym as it is also the noise you make after you've played Ridge Racer for 2 hours.
PSP also stands for precision spectral pyranometer, a pyranometer with an outer clear dome that can be replaced by colored domes that transmit specific bandwidths of the solar spectrum. [Ah... Google... how else could you find out trivia you never wanted to know?]
DS stands for Dream System, it's like a portable Dreamcast (which is why SEGA managed to produce a game which shows off it's capabilities before Nintendo could).
When I've written about online encounters (and even real life ones on occasion) I generally change the names to protect the innocent (myself... I don't want StupidGuy to come looking for me). So I really wouldn't take this as a reason for disbelief.
Even if it does stretch the truth a little... it's possible that something like this could happen. The value of the piece is that it delivers a concept of what the game is like from an emotional point of view rather than a 'five out of ten' approach. And if the piece honestly reflects the writers feelings, isn't that better than a stale Gamespy review?
If this happens I'd like them to do a remake of the famous lemmings commercial.
They could just play it backwards... suits flying backwards out of a gorge with comical 'woo's and 'yahha's could work...
But, personally I'd like to see a sequel to the 1984 commercial. Possibly one where all the people in the audience who were under Big Brother's spell suddenly awake... and decide to attack the athlete with cries of "Hey! I was watching that!" Maybe Charlie Chaplin saves her while he's listening to an iPod... mmm... maybe not.
Hang on. The inmates pay for food, the profits of which go towards buying stuff for the prisoners...
So they get to spend the money twice (well maybe not twice, maybe 1.25 times depending on profit margin)? Where do they get the money from in the first place? And where else are they going to spend it?
Uh, so isn't this really the end of a fad? Games are being judged on gameplay and word-of-mouth instead of how many photo-ops some guy in a oversized fur suit attends?
Pfffttt... kids today with thier "game X is really good because of A,B and C". Back in my day we used to buy games because of the mascot. This fad of games being juged on gameplay and word-of-mouth will pass believe you me. Just like the Pokemon fad did... oh wait... um...
my tax dollars hard at work and yet i'm not able to see what's going on?
Don't IBM and SCO pay tax? Shouldn't thier tax dollars go towards protecting thier privacy?
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Especially as recently Dutch Supreme Court ruled Kazaa legal
Let's see what happens in this Sydney court case. "Unlike pending copyright-infringement cases brought against Sharman in the United States, the suit asserts additional claims for misrepresentation to the public, unconscionable conduct and civil conspiracy to inflict harm".
Don't know how this will affet Kazaa, but it could hurt Sharman...
3. Sue the smeg out of little pc shops so that they owe you lots of money and buy them out ensuring that you own all the places on the board and, and... oh wait that's monopoly... is Microsoft still a monopoly?
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The monitoring itself is being outsource. Third parties, sometimes in other countries, are listening in when the rep asks you for you account number, mothers maiden name, etc. Thats a privacy issue about how my data is protected/not protected.
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And this is a concern for you? I was outsourced to answer calls for a credit card line for a bank. Why do you even assume that the person taking the call is more legit than the person monitoring it? If either party is found to be conducting illegal activity, they will face the same penalties. And in the end it's the bank's fault for outsourcing it, so it will be thier loss, not yours. Even if you're not dealing with a bank, the company you're dealing with should wear the loss.
But just to freak you out a bit the bank I was working for would just fire anyone who commited fraud rather than take the case to court. Logic being that if the case was taken to court, then the media could get wind of it.
I wonder how many times they have heard me say 'If you are so concerned about your customer, don't make me wait on hold' or perhaps 'Thanks for my patience? Do I have a f'in choice?'
Everyone does this. You think the person monitoring it cares? I've never actually seen a system that can listen in to what you're saying when on hold though. I think it'd still be covered by 'your call may be recorded', given that the call could be defined as the moment your connection is made to the time that you hang up.
You generally here the same lines come out of customer's mouths (I assume this is the same anywhere). Generally "Can I help you with something else?" gets the response "You could deposit 1 million into my account" or "You could tell me tonight's lotto numbers".
While completly off topic, our scripting used to involve asking the person thier name. A lot of people would refuse... but strangely got offended when I called them Bob (especially when they were women). I didn't really like my job
My first thought was that they were going for an Australian Football League exclusive licence.
Yeah, but it'd be hard to make a version better than the one that appeared on the NES. And it'd hardly be exclusive given that Acclaim have created PS2 and Xbox versions (AFL Live 2004).
but nah, if GTA was a system seller for me I'd have gotten a PS2
I often feel the need to go on violent rampages and steal cars on the way home from work, y'know I just can't wait until I get home. Sometimes it's gotten so bad that I've jacked someone because the train takes so long...
try RTFA erm... what article? "You need to upgrade your Flash Player! Already have Flash Player? Click here if you have Flash Player 6 installed." does not count as an article. Nor does the 35MB trailer (eh... I downloaded a newer flash to watch a Quicktime or WMV file?). It'd be nice if there was just a list. Hmmm... maybe I don't want to WTFT?
Oh yeah it will show you a current weather report too.
Yeah, but so will windows.
Every morning I wake up and look at windows and I've got a current weather report.
Snoop Dogg said Halo is the shizzle!!!
OMG! Snoop Dogg is clearly the most reliable reviewer ever. What am I doing reading slashdot when I could be buying an XBox and Halo?
Hang on... what does shizzle mean?
It is entirely plausible that these kids were *inspired* by their video games, or perhaps by a movie they saw. Gotta get your ideas from somewhere...
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Gee.. I don't know... off the top of my head I think, just maybe, the grafitti in thier town inspired them. Hmmm... I know it's a silly concept. Why would I even think that, let alone post it on
Of course they may live in a town without any grafitti at all (but the only towns I've seen like that are in Nintendo games...)
In the Johnson house?
Perhaps if the monkey had been Donkey Kong it would have taken off?
Or perhaps Sonic... hmmm... that'd be interesting for Sega to do... Sonic Bongo Battle
The problem is that the GameCube as a whole wound up becoming the Dreamcast of this generation.
Does that make the XBox the N64 of this generation?
Nintendo announces a new system to replace the GBA (the Game Boy Ultra or whatever). No picutres of it anywhere. It's a total myster the specs, the form, the games, everything. You just show up at a store on launch day with your $100 or $150 and buy a system and any games they have. Would you buy that system?
As much as I love Nintendo, no. I'm not going to run out and buy every new Gameboy. If I did I'd have a Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, GBA:SP and a DS (or in your example an Ultra). I generally by every second gameboy (Pocket, Advance, DS) as Nintendo seems to be putting out a lot of revision versions (where they fix problems).
But generally I will buy before I try, but not sight unseen.
but this valley was started because companies like IBM were already here...
Wait a minute... IBM lives in New York. And the valley is in California. And according to my map, California and New York are on the opposite sides of the US. So you're saying that all these companies are only in Silicon Valley because IBM is in New York? I suppose that makes sense actually...
Australia has been granted the ability to claim any person that does okay in music, movies or tv as an Australian, as long as they come from an island country. They are then subject to the anti-tall poppy syndrome. As soon as they go insane or do badly they are no longer Australians (such as Mel Gibson and Russel Crowe). Some people claim that John Howard is an Australian, the actor is, the prime minister may be an American...
I'm not sure that her recent films are quite as good as BMX Bandits, but there you go...
if you are concerned about your privacy and protecting it from the warrant system, you're about two hundred years late in complaining.
Hmmm... if the police weren't tapping the miner's phones, maybe, just maybe the eureka stockade might have been a successs and we'd (Australians) er... have a flag without the union jack?
Hmmm... clearly a troll, but hey... I'll explain... ;)
PSP stands for Portable Sans Power (the article should have given this away). This is a very clever acronym as it is also the noise you make after you've played Ridge Racer for 2 hours.
PSP also stands for precision spectral pyranometer, a pyranometer with an outer clear dome that can be replaced by colored domes that transmit specific bandwidths of the solar spectrum. [Ah... Google... how else could you find out trivia you never wanted to know?]
DS stands for Dream System, it's like a portable Dreamcast (which is why SEGA managed to produce a game which shows off it's capabilities before Nintendo could).
Ah... so the revolution will be slashdotted? Good to know.
The idiotic screen name of the other person
When I've written about online encounters (and even real life ones on occasion) I generally change the names to protect the innocent (myself... I don't want StupidGuy to come looking for me). So I really wouldn't take this as a reason for disbelief.
Even if it does stretch the truth a little... it's possible that something like this could happen. The value of the piece is that it delivers a concept of what the game is like from an emotional point of view rather than a 'five out of ten' approach. And if the piece honestly reflects the writers feelings, isn't that better than a stale Gamespy review?
If this happens I'd like them to do a remake of the famous lemmings commercial.
They could just play it backwards... suits flying backwards out of a gorge with comical 'woo's and 'yahha's could work...
But, personally I'd like to see a sequel to the 1984 commercial. Possibly one where all the people in the audience who were under Big Brother's spell suddenly awake... and decide to attack the athlete with cries of "Hey! I was watching that!" Maybe Charlie Chaplin saves her while he's listening to an iPod... mmm... maybe not.
Hang on. The inmates pay for food, the profits of which go towards buying stuff for the prisoners...
So they get to spend the money twice (well maybe not twice, maybe 1.25 times depending on profit margin)? Where do they get the money from in the first place? And where else are they going to spend it?
Uh, so isn't this really the end of a fad? Games are being judged on gameplay and word-of-mouth instead of how many photo-ops some guy in a oversized fur suit attends?
Pfffttt... kids today with thier "game X is really good because of A,B and C". Back in my day we used to buy games because of the mascot. This fad of games being juged on gameplay and word-of-mouth will pass believe you me. Just like the Pokemon fad did... oh wait... um...
my tax dollars hard at work and yet i'm not able to see what's going on?
Don't IBM and SCO pay tax? Shouldn't thier tax dollars go towards protecting thier privacy?
Especially as recently Dutch Supreme Court ruled Kazaa legal
Let's see what happens in this Sydney court case.
"Unlike pending copyright-infringement cases brought against Sharman in the United States, the suit asserts additional claims for misrepresentation to the public, unconscionable conduct and civil conspiracy to inflict harm".
Don't know how this will affet Kazaa, but it could hurt Sharman...
3. Sue the smeg out of little pc shops so that they owe you lots of money and buy them out ensuring that you own all the places on the board and, and... oh wait that's monopoly... is Microsoft still a monopoly?
and throw thousands of gamers in jail on charges of murder. ;)
Nah, the cops will never find them after they get thier cars sprayed.
Hmmm... maybe I should open a Pay'N'Spray now and get in on some of this action.
This coming from someone who spends 10+ hours a day in front of a computer and still looks skiny.
So children should drink coffee and smoke while playing video games?