Killerfishmonkey - Slashdot User

Submission + - robot phone call

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Killerfishmonkey

on Friday November 11, 2011 @07:12PM

Killerfishmonkey writes: "Dear Slashdot..
I just received a phone call from what I believe is a robot.
the company is affinity savings club. I really wish I had recorded this somehow.
I always listen to telemarketers, and I never buy. but this time I kinda was curious to make a purchase. shazam my credit card is not in my wallet.. so I ask if they accept paypal.. the voice said "YES,,,, YES." long pause. I say.. "how do you want me to pay using pay pal.. via e-mail? text?" the voice says "we accept visa, Mastercard, and american express." I say. "sooo.. no paypal then right?" the voice ".......NO" I then say "I get the feeling I am talking to a robot" there was a slight pause and the voice says "oh I sound that good hu? ha ha ha ". so I ask my favorite news source.. is there a sort of turring test I can give to a telemarketing voice using cleverly pre-recorded human voice?. maybey I could say "you sell refrigerators right?""

Submission + - Gaming Graphics Future (euclideon.com)

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Killerfishmonkey

on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @05:03PM

Killerfishmonkey writes: "As you all know. Video games are rendered using Polygons. However, a company based in Australia called Euclideon has a video demonstration on why "polygon count" may be a thing of the past."

Submission + - Space over Time (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by Petrik on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @04:43PM

Petrik writes: Technology review has interesting graphics about history of spaceflight. They show total payloads launched by different countries over years.

Submission + - There are now more cell phones in the U.S. than pe (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @02:38PM

zacharye writes: For the first time, the number of wireless devices connecting to cellular networks in the United States and its territories over the past six months has surpassed the country’s total population. A semi-annual survey conducted by the CTIA found that wireless subscriber connections now total 327.6 million while the population of the U.S. and its territories is now 315.5 million people. This means the wireless penetration rate in the U.S. in now 103.9% according to the CTIA, marking the first time that wireless penetration has surpassed 100% in the U.S...

Comment horrible (Score 0) 543

by Killerfishmonkey on Thursday August 25, 2011 @04:28PM (#37211706) Attached to: Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop?

you should do like the rest of the world.. er.. the rest of the geeks.. buy from tigerdirect.com / compusa

Comment Killerfishmonkey (Score 1) 122

by Killerfishmonkey on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @09:04PM (#34482056) Attached to: The New Reality of Gaming

Eve Online at www.eve-online.com is exactly as you say " a sandbox where everybody has the same tools, yet everyone achieves different results" in eve.. you do have to level up, but it has a real world economic structure in the market where an individual person can have trillions worth of assets and steal or destroy thousands of dollars worth of asses in real world equivelent value download the video here >> http://www.eveonline.com/download/videos/Default.asp?a=download&vid=269 . I'm really supprised EVE is not more popular than WOW in the level of sandbox style gameplay

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