The broadcasters know who to focus on because they do their homework before the game. In all sports, the broadcasters have statistics on all of the players, as well as notes about which players have been standing out in pre-season, or did well the last game, or if the coach was pissed at a player, or whatever. And usually, star players make the plays, which is why the focus is on them after key plays.
The confrontations aren't scripted. People get into fights. Are you going to watch a hockey game and tell me that all of the confronations are scripted? No, you aren't; the only reason you'd do it with the XFL is because Vince McMahon happens to own it. Please, just because the man is a wrestling promoter doesn't mean he rigs everything he touches; to think otherwise is very naive.
The games are on par with college football, not high school. It wasn't NFL-level, that's for sure, but the NFL has bought all the good players already -- where would you rather work, where you can make millions per season, or at most $100,000 per season?
The stadiums are real stadiums: Soldier Field, Giants Stadium, Pac Bell Park, etc. I don't know which game you were watching, buddy, but when I saw the seats they were many of them, and they were packed.
The XFL isn't sports? That wasn't football? Excuse me for asking then, but if it wasn't football, what the hell was I watching?
Please do me a favor, if you see A.I., let me know if it has any of Kubrick's interminably long "signature" shots (you know, where the camera points at the same goddamn thing for two minutes straight.) I wanted to kill myself during A Clockwork Orange... ---
evil adrian
You don't even have the balls to write that to me without hiding behind the "Anonymous Coward" thing, so you shouldn't even be talking about pathetic. So, instead of me shutting the fuck up and dying, how about you just eat my shit? I'll even spoonfeed it to you if you like. ---
evil adrian
People will not buy the same old shit over and over, they will always want bigger, better, faster, more; look at the computer industry. Without innovation, everyone would have already consumed everything they need, except stuff like food and fuel.
Yeah, right. Patents exist to line the pockets of lawyers and corporations.
I guess you don't know how the economy works, do you? Economy is fueled by innovation, because of the almighty dollar. If you can't turn a profit with an R&D department, you're not going to have an R&D department, and you're not going to have people innovating. Period. Except people like you who like to work for free, who are in the minority. People do not want to work for free. Just ask the Russians that were around when Communists were in charge.
So what? There's lots of stuff I work hard on that I don't get a guaranteed return on. That's life. Sometimes people take advantage of you. If it really bothers you, then just keep your brilliant invention a secret and no one will steal it.
If everyone kept everything a secret, then technology wouldn't move forward, because no one would be innovating (except for themselves, but since it'd all be secret, the world and industry wouldn't be moving forward, would they?) Patents are there so people won't take advantage of you, because they protect your investment (research and development) for a set period of time.
Rubbish. People invent what they need *because* they need it. If I've got a good idea, you can be damn sure I'm not going to sit around and wait until someone else comes up with something similar. I have to eat and clothe myself. If my invention makes that easier for me and my family, what do I care if my neighbor uses my idea?
You should care because you would spend time and money making your widget, and then once it hits the market, your neighbors would jump in and copy your idea and make money off of it, and you will go under because you spent your time and money innovating, and they conserved those resources because they didn't have to do any of the work, so they drive the price down below what it would cost you to break even. All your hard work for nothing.
I'm not sure if you're serious or joking or playing dumb. Education only works because someone shares their knowledge. Patents (and copyright and trademarks) just get in the way of sharing.
Patents don't get in the way of sharing; they get in the way of stealing. Patents and education have nothing to do with one another; what orifice did you pull that link out of?
Patents exist to stimulate innovation. If you couldn't patent something, then you would put hard work into making something, and then everyone in the world could just take your idea as soon as it hit the market and duplicate it and make money off of your hard work. So, if there were no patents, then everyone would just wait around for everyone else to invent something so they could take the idea and exploit it for their own gain. Patents prevent people from duplicating work for a set period of time, I think twenty years or so. Patents are good, as long as they aren't abused, as it appears is happening with this mp3/ogg thing. (I learned about patents in my Economics class -- see, education really does work!) ---
evil adrian
Instead of focusing on the technology, why don't they focus on the story? I heard Episode I was a terrible, terrible movie story-wise.
Not to mention that they over-marketed that movie. Too much marketing; I refuse to EVER see that movie on the grounds that I could probably piece it together scene by scene if I took the time to remember all of the movie, game, pizza, and soda commericals... c'mon, I had Darth Maul staring at me from my Mountain Dew cans for MONTHS!! ---
evil adrian
I completely agree with this. If there is no elected body, and we blindly put faith into some faceless board of directors, we're basically asking for people to mess with the system. It's clear that the more money you have, the more likely you are to get what you want (I guess that's life though isn't it...) The reason it's so important though is that the Internet is everywhere, all the time, 24-7, and I think if we all use it, we all should have the right to choose who runs it. ---
evil adrian
Slashdot Mirror
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evil adrian
Please do me a favor, if you see A.I., let me know if it has any of Kubrick's interminably long "signature" shots (you know, where the camera points at the same goddamn thing for two minutes straight.) I wanted to kill myself during A Clockwork Orange...
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evil adrian
I'd never let a cop swab my mouth, but I would let him wipe my ass...
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evil adrian
You don't even have the balls to write that to me without hiding behind the "Anonymous Coward" thing, so you shouldn't even be talking about pathetic. So, instead of me shutting the fuck up and dying, how about you just eat my shit? I'll even spoonfeed it to you if you like.
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evil adrian
As funny as this is, can someone please moderate it down to the depths from which it sprung?
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evil adrian
The economy is fuelled by consumption. Period.
People will not buy the same old shit over and over, they will always want bigger, better, faster, more; look at the computer industry. Without innovation, everyone would have already consumed everything they need, except stuff like food and fuel.
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evil adrian
Yeah, right. Patents exist to line the pockets of lawyers and corporations.
I guess you don't know how the economy works, do you? Economy is fueled by innovation, because of the almighty dollar. If you can't turn a profit with an R&D department, you're not going to have an R&D department, and you're not going to have people innovating. Period. Except people like you who like to work for free, who are in the minority. People do not want to work for free. Just ask the Russians that were around when Communists were in charge.
So what? There's lots of stuff I work hard on that I don't get a guaranteed return on. That's life. Sometimes people take advantage of you. If it really bothers you, then just keep your brilliant invention a secret and no one will steal it.
If everyone kept everything a secret, then technology wouldn't move forward, because no one would be innovating (except for themselves, but since it'd all be secret, the world and industry wouldn't be moving forward, would they?) Patents are there so people won't take advantage of you, because they protect your investment (research and development) for a set period of time.
Rubbish. People invent what they need *because* they need it. If I've got a good idea, you can be damn sure I'm not going to sit around and wait until someone else comes up with something similar. I have to eat and clothe myself. If my invention makes that easier for me and my family, what do I care if my neighbor uses my idea?
You should care because you would spend time and money making your widget, and then once it hits the market, your neighbors would jump in and copy your idea and make money off of it, and you will go under because you spent your time and money innovating, and they conserved those resources because they didn't have to do any of the work, so they drive the price down below what it would cost you to break even. All your hard work for nothing.
I'm not sure if you're serious or joking or playing dumb. Education only works because someone shares their knowledge. Patents (and copyright and trademarks) just get in the way of sharing.
Patents don't get in the way of sharing; they get in the way of stealing. Patents and education have nothing to do with one another; what orifice did you pull that link out of?
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evil adrian
Patents exist to stimulate innovation. If you couldn't patent something, then you would put hard work into making something, and then everyone in the world could just take your idea as soon as it hit the market and duplicate it and make money off of your hard work. So, if there were no patents, then everyone would just wait around for everyone else to invent something so they could take the idea and exploit it for their own gain. Patents prevent people from duplicating work for a set period of time, I think twenty years or so. Patents are good, as long as they aren't abused, as it appears is happening with this mp3/ogg thing. (I learned about patents in my Economics class -- see, education really does work!)
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evil adrian
All I have to say is, when the hell are they going to update their website?? I mean, c'mon, Quake II is so 1990's!
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evil adrian
Instead of focusing on the technology, why don't they focus on the story? I heard Episode I was a terrible, terrible movie story-wise.
Not to mention that they over-marketed that movie. Too much marketing; I refuse to EVER see that movie on the grounds that I could probably piece it together scene by scene if I took the time to remember all of the movie, game, pizza, and soda commericals... c'mon, I had Darth Maul staring at me from my Mountain Dew cans for MONTHS!!
---
evil adrian
I completely agree with this. If there is no elected body, and we blindly put faith into some faceless board of directors, we're basically asking for people to mess with the system. It's clear that the more money you have, the more likely you are to get what you want (I guess that's life though isn't it...) The reason it's so important though is that the Internet is everywhere, all the time, 24-7, and I think if we all use it, we all should have the right to choose who runs it.
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evil adrian