CoD how sad

[Some Gump]

24lemons said:

Every day the 6 billion people on earth exist for a combined 144 billion hours so all things considered it's not as startling as it sounds. I bet the combined time spent having a dump easily outstrips time spend on video games. It's hardly a waste of human resources when you look at it like that.

Speaking of waste, puts it in perspective that every day, 12 million turds are coiled. No wonder the Exchange and Mart is so successful.

[chuntington101]

m1dg3 said:

chuntington101 said:

Forgetting the human element, I wonder how much processing power has been wasted? What could we have done with that?

Yeah, but the development of that processing power has been massively pushed along by the rise of video games.

Yeah I guess it has. I still wonder what could be done if the PSN or Xbox network was used for good though. The processing power would be pretty massive!

[Motorsport_is_Expensive]

Nothing in this entire thread makes one ounce of sense. Absolutely not one bit.

[PH XKR]

Imagine if they put that 1990s screen saver for SETI onto the XBOX/PSs we could find ET sooner

[PH XKR]

GrumpyTwig said:

Over the years I wonder how many aeons people have spent reading fictional literature, probably far more than the sensationalist figure in the OP.

We're not robots, humans procrastinate.

/edit rough fag packet calculation puts lord of the rings at 3.9 billion hours on its own.

Edited by GrumpyTwig on Sunday 24th April 00:37

3.9 billion hours is how long it felt when I watched the 1st of the trilogy

[Nom de ploom]

24lemons said:

Every day the 6 billion people on earth exist for a combined 144 billion hours so all things considered it's not as startling as it sounds. I bet the combined time spent having a dump easily outstrips time spend on video games. It's hardly a waste of human resources when you look at it like that.

agreed alot of people read whilst having a dump - lots of time spent usefully there across the planet

[bloomen]

I think I've probably contributed about ten hours to that. I'm sure it's saved lots of grannies from being pulled from the streets and being tickled up and down.

[Some Gump]

PH XKR said:

3.9 billion hours is how long it felt when I watched the 1st of the trilogy

You should try the third one. It has like 10 endings. I swear the director just did it to wind up everyone that got bored after the first 9 hours of walking towards a hill..

[Pints]

James 33 said:

Hey i play CoD! LOL Just suddenly feel its all a massive waste of the human brain. Maybe tonight ill read a science book instead of shooting Zombies. Then again....

Preparing for the zombie apocalypse is not a waste of time.

[anonymous-user]

PH XKR said:

And yet no decent New games

Dirt Rally

[PH XKR]

Idonthavencb said:

PH XKR said:

And yet no decent New games

Dirt Rally

Except that!

[callmedave]

I wonder how much the advance in computers (pushed along by games and ever increasing performance) has aided computers that carry out complex advances in medicine?

A bit like the technology in F1 cars filters down to mainstream cars - Where would we be without the Turbocharger/ where would we be without 64 bit computing?

[Martin_Hx]

PH XKR said:

Battlefield > CoD

Definitely!

[PH XKR]

callmedave said:

I wonder how much the advance in computers (pushed along by games and ever increasing performance) has aided computers that carry out complex advances in medicine?

A bit like the technology in F1 cars filters down to mainstream cars - Where would we be without the Turbocharger/ where would we be without 64 bit computing?

turbocharger came to F1 long after production cars, remember the early 80s?

ABS was on production cars then F1

Adaptive suspension was on production cars hen F1

Considering most applications and even O/S are not fully optimised for 64-bit its a moot point. More prevalent is the advancement of the RISC processor, the ARM is now 30+ years old and is probably the most successful architecture.