Most people know to use google (movie title filetype:tor) to find torrents.
No they don't. I'm not exactly technically improficient but I didn't know about the filetype thing.
Even a 1% solution is better than 0%, that's something people on this site don't (and refuse to) understand.
It's like when someone comes up with a security system based on obscurity, the whiners will crawl out of the woodwork to say it's worthless because it won't work 100% of the time against 100% of the attackers. Talk about missing the point by a mile...
Or maybe FPS's just don't make very good viewing? The arena is far too big, you can't see everything at once and you can't see what's going on.
Every successful spectator sport allows you to see the whole pitch and all the players at once, there's no hiding or running round corridors.
If there's going to be televised Quake, there may as well be televised laser-quest. I don't think that would be successful so why would the computer equivalent be?
Most other games, like sports and racing games, have real life alternatives that people will watch instead.
Another problem is there's no history. I mean football is based on over a century of traditions and legends. Who are the Peles or Maradonas or Cruyffs of computer gaming? What are the old famous prestigious competitions, the classic games?
What is the gaming equivalent of the Brazil 1970 team, the 53 cup final, or Hurst's hat-trick in 1966? I don't think that reminiscing about a world championship Pong game in the 70s would be much fun.
You can watch an old football match from 50 years ago and it's practically the same as today. Computer games are obsolete within a few years. Who'll even know what Quake is in twenty years, let alone a hundred?
There are no teams either. You can't go and watch your local town's team or your country play in a computer game competition, because there are no such teams. It's just players with funny names with numbers instead of letters, people you've never seen or heard.
It won't even do anything for anyone's quality of life. A few 'hot spots' that will probably give less sunlight than walking ten minutes round the mountain for free.
And they wonder why people don't like paying taxes, and why people don't trust the EU to do anything other than piss money away.
Looking at how hollow some of the posts on here are, it wouldn't surprise me to find them employing Slashdot users. It's sickening how a site full of such anti-corporate people suddenly turn into corporate shills when a few notes are wafted under their noses.
This happens every time Slashdot has a post on this topic, someone posts articulartly saying how much success they've had with the service, the timing is very convenient.
The problem with imdb is you have to take into account the 'fanboy factor', where fanboys go to a site en masse just to vote up their favourite film, even if it's shit.
Maybe because 2001 is a classic, whereas hardly anyone has even heard of 2010? In fact I had to look up on imdb to find out whether 2010 actually existed.
One is the socially bad one, of a some smart, but socially annoying guy hiding in his parents basement. The other, good definition is that of a generally tech savvy individual with wide reaching interests
One of those exists within the Slashdot reality-distortion bubble, the other exists in the real world. Can you guess which is which?
Who cares about more channels? They can't even find anything to fill the ones they already have, 90% repeats, soaps and reality TV. The digital channels are repeats of repeats.
You need a funny box next to the TV, it takes ages to change the channel, and it often freezes up.
Teletext doesn't work either. I think this whole digital thing is just a way to fleece us of money: we have to pay for boxes and aerial upgrades, just to get what we already have anyway.
C'mon, it takes a lot of money to look good and to develop the style to know when you look good. People in tech support don't get paid enough money to look good.
How much money does it take to wear a simple suit, shirt and tie rather than a curry-stained tshirt and sweaty jogging pants?
Maybe if you treated McDonalds workers better, you'd enjoy the food there more?
How? They don't decide what to cook, how to cook it and what ingredients to use. You could give the burger flippers a fucking blow job, and you'd still get a tasteless, rubbery, vomit-inducing burger along with some greasy fries and a bland sugary drink.
The fact that you don't respect them is why it's so hard to find a decent food experience anymore these days.
Why's that? If we treat them better are McDonald's going to start serving food that actually tastes of something?
Well, perhaps the game designers are interested in a type of game other than the one you like. Not every game's made for you, what arrogance. There are plenty of safe, carebears-style games out there if you want, I don't see why a game called 'Star Wars' shouldn't have an emphasis on 'Wars'.
Are you saying only teenage boys like combat games? Maybe another stereotype is that only whiny bitches like non-dangerous, non-violent games.
And even people who have it don't want to download 5GB over it. It could take hours and hours on low-end broadband lines, and a lot of services are capped.
There are plenty of bland, tame, unexciting, non-violent games out there, why don't you play one of those? All games don't need to be exactly the same, there is a large niche for violence and excitement.
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Most people know to use google (movie title filetype:tor) to find torrents.
No they don't. I'm not exactly technically improficient but I didn't know about the filetype thing.
Even a 1% solution is better than 0%, that's something people on this site don't (and refuse to) understand.
It's like when someone comes up with a security system based on obscurity, the whiners will crawl out of the woodwork to say it's worthless because it won't work 100% of the time against 100% of the attackers. Talk about missing the point by a mile...
I bet this book gets OLD, very fast.
Must be gutting to spend good money on a book, then to find out that it stops being funny after page two.
Yeah, who cares about Iraqis being tortured and repressed by a fanatical muslim regime, as long as we can get some pretty pictures from space...
Or maybe FPS's just don't make very good viewing? The arena is far too big, you can't see everything at once and you can't see what's going on.
Every successful spectator sport allows you to see the whole pitch and all the players at once, there's no hiding or running round corridors.
If there's going to be televised Quake, there may as well be televised laser-quest. I don't think that would be successful so why would the computer equivalent be?
Most other games, like sports and racing games, have real life alternatives that people will watch instead.
Another problem is there's no history. I mean football is based on over a century of traditions and legends. Who are the Peles or Maradonas or Cruyffs of computer gaming? What are the old famous prestigious competitions, the classic games?
What is the gaming equivalent of the Brazil 1970 team, the 53 cup final, or Hurst's hat-trick in 1966? I don't think that reminiscing about a world championship Pong game in the 70s would be much fun.
You can watch an old football match from 50 years ago and it's practically the same as today. Computer games are obsolete within a few years. Who'll even know what Quake is in twenty years, let alone a hundred?
There are no teams either. You can't go and watch your local town's team or your country play in a computer game competition, because there are no such teams. It's just players with funny names with numbers instead of letters, people you've never seen or heard.
It won't even do anything for anyone's quality of life. A few 'hot spots' that will probably give less sunlight than walking ten minutes round the mountain for free.
And they wonder why people don't like paying taxes, and why people don't trust the EU to do anything other than piss money away.
Looking at how hollow some of the posts on here are, it wouldn't surprise me to find them employing Slashdot users. It's sickening how a site full of such anti-corporate people suddenly turn into corporate shills when a few notes are wafted under their noses.
Note: the above post is a shill.
This happens every time Slashdot has a post on this topic, someone posts articulartly saying how much success they've had with the service, the timing is very convenient.
And much more likey to have its parts harvested and the casing thrown away, removing any chance of it being recovered.
The problem with imdb is you have to take into account the 'fanboy factor', where fanboys go to a site en masse just to vote up their favourite film, even if it's shit.
I dunno, some of the films on that list have been around for decades and have become classics.
Let's come back in a year and see if anyone even remembers Serenity.
Maybe because 2001 is a classic, whereas hardly anyone has even heard of 2010? In fact I had to look up on imdb to find out whether 2010 actually existed.
Doesn't seem like it's much good.
The key difference being that people who invade Russia generally don't fare so well.
Except when they burn down Moscow, obviously.
One is the socially bad one, of a some smart, but socially annoying guy hiding in his parents basement. The other, good definition is that of a generally tech savvy individual with wide reaching interests
One of those exists within the Slashdot reality-distortion bubble, the other exists in the real world. Can you guess which is which?
You are the pettiest, nerdiest, anorak-wearingist twat in the world.
Who cares about more channels? They can't even find anything to fill the ones they already have, 90% repeats, soaps and reality TV. The digital channels are repeats of repeats.
You need a funny box next to the TV, it takes ages to change the channel, and it often freezes up.
Teletext doesn't work either. I think this whole digital thing is just a way to fleece us of money: we have to pay for boxes and aerial upgrades, just to get what we already have anyway.
If you have a 50 inch waist then you have bigger problems than what to wear to work. Like not stuffing yourself 24 hours a day.
C'mon, it takes a lot of money to look good and to develop the style to know when you look good. People in tech support don't get paid enough money to look good.
How much money does it take to wear a simple suit, shirt and tie rather than a curry-stained tshirt and sweaty jogging pants?
Maybe if you treated McDonalds workers better, you'd enjoy the food there more?
How? They don't decide what to cook, how to cook it and what ingredients to use. You could give the burger flippers a fucking blow job, and you'd still get a tasteless, rubbery, vomit-inducing burger along with some greasy fries and a bland sugary drink.
The fact that you don't respect them is why it's so hard to find a decent food experience anymore these days.
Why's that? If we treat them better are McDonald's going to start serving food that actually tastes of something?
Well, perhaps the game designers are interested in a type of game other than the one you like. Not every game's made for you, what arrogance. There are plenty of safe, carebears-style games out there if you want, I don't see why a game called 'Star Wars' shouldn't have an emphasis on 'Wars'.
Are you saying only teenage boys like combat games? Maybe another stereotype is that only whiny bitches like non-dangerous, non-violent games.
There's truckloads of young programmers and artists out there who would love to get involved in the games industry.
Unfortuanately most of them are worse than awful.
We don't all have broadband you know.
And even people who have it don't want to download 5GB over it. It could take hours and hours on low-end broadband lines, and a lot of services are capped.
Barista? Why do Starbucks workers get fancy foreign names but McDonald's workers don't, when they're effectively doing the same job?
If you don't like combat what are you doing playing a game called Star Wars???
There are plenty of bland, tame, unexciting, non-violent games out there, why don't you play one of those? All games don't need to be exactly the same, there is a large niche for violence and excitement.