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- recover82, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3you guys are a bunch of whiney asshats.
i realize by complaining about your complaining im being a hypocrite but stop ***** bitching about everything. - MacGyver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Interesting, I was always curious on how that worked. I thought the 2 first down markers just shot a laser back and forth, didn't know how complex it actually is.
- shad0w, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I actually found it interesting. I don't know what your problems are.
- Krizmania, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I enjoyed the article. I thought it was well-written for a wide audience. And nearly everyone I know wonders, at some point or another, how a first down line works!
- Florian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I basically knew how this worked. But i'm still impressed just how well it works.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I remember in the 70's and 80's when being a geek or a nerd was to be made fun of, laughed at, looked down upon, and generally harrassed.Being a jock was cool.No matter how hard geeks and nerds tried, they couldn't fit in.They bought all the wrong clothes, were not very good at sports, and were basically ignored socially as they were considered abnormal.
Well, now it's the millenium, and being a geek or a nerd is cool.We are so cool in fact, that the jocks want to be like us.
They buy wal-mart computers, subscribe to AOL, socialize at such hotspots as msn chat, aim, and ICQ,.They paste their pitifully boring lives at such places like livejournal. Jocks want to be cool like geeks and nerds, as this digg proves.
To all you jocks, go back to ball-handling and patting your buddies on the ass, as you will never fit in with us, you don't have the mental capabilities to, and it shows.
You're not cool, and you don't belong with us, Go away, you are boring.
The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth. - SlashNot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i actually find this interesting, i was wondering how they did this today, i dotn watch football but i happen to catch part of a game, and i wanted to know how they did it so it only covered the field and not the players. cool post
- analogtyler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dont like it? don't digg! its that simple.
i found this interesting, and was glad that it was posted. everyone whos having a goddamn coniption over it should really calm down, your being rediculous.
digg+ - mutedecho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, personally, I've always wondered how this works. I never went to how it works, because i'm a lazy bastard. Thanks for posting that. Maybe not of intrest to everyone, but thanks.
- kree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"dont like it? don't digg! its that simple."
Exactly. Maybe you guys should try leaving your elitist attitudes over at slashdot. If you don't like the story, don't waste your time commenting it. Digg is a place to learn. Nobody really cares if you were smart enough to know about this technology already. - NaziHatinChimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I digg it cause I heard that everytime they use that ***** on tv that dude who invented it gets $20,000.
- bonzai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good point kkapoor obviously no one can like two different sports. You certainly established your outsider cred. You are so cool. Now STFU and fix me a turkey pot pie.
- p5ychop3nguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This was on TechTV's The Tech Of show back in the day.
- ketsugi, on 10/15/2007, -3/+3The real question is, who gives a damn about NFL outside of the USA?
- Loie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You see, that's what you have to do. You have to use your mind and come up with some really great idea like that and you never have to work again!
-- Tom Smykowski - defylogik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they did a story on this on tech tv. what amazes me is the tracking system they have on NASCAR cars that allow them to pin point the driver names over top of the cars as they cruise around the track.
dont get me wrong, i hate nascar :) LEFT TURN! - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I saw a thing about this on Discovery. It's a pretty cool little gimmick, I thought. It also explained the glowing blue hockey puck and how hockey fans hated it. Personally, I loved the blue puck, it made it actually possible for me to watch hockey. Once they got rid of it, I stopped watching because I can't tell where the puck is and therefore don't know WTF is going on.
- M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OMG, it's not painted on the field, you've got to be kiddin me. *shocked*
- mikeroq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i saw that on "techtv"
- LaPistola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I met the guys who came up with this at NAB years ago.. It is sweet stuff!
- mrpippy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Wooo! SGI!
- theShel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3There's an audience that articles @ HowStuffWorks are written for. It's certainly NOT the type that are checking out digg on an hourly basis.
FYI - I wrote that article 4(ish) years ago.. I could have gotten WAY more tech-ie with it..but instead stayed way generalized.
There are other more in-depth articles out there on the subject... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Lame.
I knew before I read that, and it didn't take that many pages. - matperk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I remember exactly what npgamer is talking about and I remember that I found their description of the whole process very interesting.
It also requires a lot of technology and therefore I believe it does relate to a nerd site and should be interesting to anyone who calls themselves a true nerd. - 21.0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0o yea, saw a show on this a while ago some discovery thing on how much tech is in the nfl
- kkapoor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Screw Football, if you want to see a real contact sport that doesn't start and stop every 10 seconds watch 'Rugby'.
Now that's a real contact sport. I'd like to see any one of these NFL players go up against the likes of Jonah Lomu in his prime or some 260 lbs Samoan who can run faster than a running back for 40 minutes at a time. - recover82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0mousky. its a statement about everyone on digg in general.
all we do is complain on every story in every comment.
just leave it alone. - paintball102089, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0who doesnt know that
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3does anyone else remember when digg was news?
- motionblur, on 10/15/2007, -3/+2"The real question is, who gives a damn about NFL outside of the USA?"
A minimal amount of people. Canadians have the CFL, but it should have died out years ago.
Really, football is for the lower percentile. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I remember seeing this on TechTV once before Comcast came.
- mousky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0recover82: Where is the "news" in submitting a "story" that links to howstuffworks.com, about.com, wikipedia or a personal blog? How about we all go over to howstuffworks.com or wikipedia, pick an entry and submit it as a "story" on digg. I'm sure that digg will be a much better place for it. Not.
- retr0spectiv, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Short answer: No
Longer answer: Lame. - Hergio, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Seriously, this is lame. That article has been around for years. Yes, the topic can be interesting if you don't know how that line is generated. But the fact that you made it a digg story is stupid. I can't believe 250+ have dugg it.
- codman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Thats cool I was just wondering that!
- kamakazzi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2of course its computer generated. Have you not been to a game before? they cant lay a piece of dtring where the first down line is everytime it moves.
- kree, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Well, aren't you a genius?
- CanuckMakem, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3We're posting old stuff from "How it Works"?
Lame - omnithrope, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0"of course its computer generated. Have you not been to a game before? they cant lay a piece of dtring where the first down line is everytime it moves."
I think he was being sarcastic.
You know what sarcasm is, right? - MikeDawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Next, will you explain the genius behing the idea, purpose, and "how it works" for the blue hockey puck? Pure genius idea, too bad it made everything look like crap on the ice (for the TV viewer of course).
- nugge7, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Computer generated??? NO *****!
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Saw this on the Discover Channel.
It's pretty cool.
O RLY?
www.gamerzplanet.net - munboy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2NFL stuff should stay on its own website. We don't go over to nfl.com and tell them about some technology crap, do we?
nerd stuff and sports should never mix. With no exceptions.
GO AWAY! - Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I've never wondered. I mean, the grass works as a green screen, how hard could it be to figure that out.
- mouthster, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1yeah man, i thought it was obvious that the grass works as a green screen.. you ***** retards..
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