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Darrell Estabrook wrote to us about IT Olympics, a satirical look at what the Olympics would be like in the IT world. Pretty amusing - and timely, although listening to some of the Olympic announcers is comical in its own right. [Update by nik] I've s/com/org/ in the URL. And on a related theme, the Usenet Olympics are always worth a laugh, ditto the Spam Olympics.
Hell, I'm still waiting for Olympics Newswire to report -
"Spanish IOC Bigwig rushed home for Emergency Ethicsectomy
- Sydney, AU 2000/09/18
International Olympic Commitee chaiman What's-his-name was flown back to Madrid yesterday after his bulging wallet apparently sparked the growth of a vestigal concience. Doctors reported finding a "malignant growth" attached to his posterior regions. Rumors that this was merely a callous engendered by his over-full wallet were pooh-poohed by those in the know.
"He actualy started feeling bad that he took all that money from the Aussies! Can you believe it?" commented another IOC member, who demanded to remain anonymous...."
"...they may harpoon us, but they ain't gonna pick us up on no radar screen!"
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I turned on for about 30secs last night. I didn't know whether to roll on the floor with laughter, or grab a bucket. I couldn't take anymore!
What is the deal with the background music and the scripted commentary? I saw part of the women's Triathlon. Sure, they covered the American athlete, but they shouldn't have given her 95% coverage when she was 5 mins off the lead and 6th! They were going on about her heroic effort, digging deep, muscles burning, so heroic, our woman out there, a gigantic heroic effort. Okay, fine, but that applies to all the athletes. How about some commentary about the race as a whole? Men's gymnastics... 95% of the time covering the US team. Great! I haven't seen that mistakes at that level for a long time. It would have been nice to see the Russians or Chinese, and example of it's done properly. I saw some volleyball... they spent ages talking about the personal lives of the athletes, but didn't even mention the names of the Canadians that they were competing against. What happened to the Olympic coverage, and the sports? I don't want to see some documentary/bio of athletes, especially when there are better examples (just from another country).
There is hope for those who live close the Canadian border, and it's called CBC. Saturday night for example, my girlfriend caught part of the women's gymnastics before the reception cut out... an hour later on NBC we saw a preview for Sunday night's coverage starring the women's gymnastics! Ridiculous!
Yo sucka, me and my team o' gymnastists will put the hurt on yo, fool!
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Since the site isn't working, here's my thoughts:
One of the local TV news stations here in Central PA has done some "Office Olympics". The events usually include stuff like office chair relay races and well, you get the idea. Anyway, that would be my idea of Tech olympics, partially anyway, because techs spend a lot of time in the office.
To be honest I'd agree with them, even ping pong at Olympic standard requires a pretty high degree of physical fitness.
This year the IT Olympics is a parody, next year you might be signing up to compete. And it will be bigger than the old sweaty olympics
Even though I gave up caring a long time ago I'd say that would be a bad thing.
~ppppppppö
My favorite from Atlanta was John Tesh announcing gymnastics.
After the first competitor in any event, "That's the score to beat."
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
Longer than "bombtheolympics.com"... D'Oh! Now they're coming after me!!!
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"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
A good thing Audi only uses four, or they'd have to recall all of the grill/steering wheel oraments...
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Natalie Portman, nude on Ebay.
Why would anyone pay $62 for this when you can buy a back issue from the publisher for $8?
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We could add an event "Longest annoying ride on an annoying hobby-horse."
Our contenders:
Rahul Dhesi, of news.admin.net-abuse.email, in the "UUNet is a bigger and more unrepentant spammer than Cyberpromo ever hoped to be" category
TBone, of rec.outdoors.fishing.fly, with his "Catch and Release is pure evil and kills fish and is bad" philosophy
Mike Vandeman, of pretty much every rec.outdoors.* group, riding the hobby horse of "Mountain bikers should all be tortured to death."
Unfortunately, we may need to disqualify everybody from every OS advocacy group and everybody who's ever complained about the moderator in rec.hunting.
There was a time when we could see all the lesser known sports on the CBC. Now, we just see the mainstream ones. I don't know about anybody else, but it peeves me off that I can only see fencing in the commercials.
:)
IIRC, no equestrian events are being shown in prime time either.
I remember being able to see speed skiing in the winter Olympics in France in '92.
Still, it's far better to be able to watch coverage that is (mostly) non-partisan - there are updates on Canadians, but they're not the only athleates competing.
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Actualyn they use CSS not JavaScript. There isn't a single tag in the whole page that I could find.
It's still a nasty compatability problem, they should set the font color in the tag for older browsers, but then that goes against to whole purpose of using CSS (separate style from content) so your damned if you do damned if you don't.
Go to www.jwz.org. Make a file and use it. Time limit: 15 minutes.
Extra credit: Explain it.
Extra extra credit: Don't use perl.
(The above extra extra credit, of course, goes for anything you ever program!)
Competitors quickly come up with news articles as fast as possible, post them on slashdot, and then comment on them. The final score is then tabulated based on Karma(positive) and how many times each competitor was referred to as a "Karma Whore"(negative)
I'm on a chair.
According to the Constitution of the State of Arizona, Article 16 Section 1
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/const/16/1.htmSo, all able bodied males from 18-49 are in the militia! How's that one grab ya!
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Just to support laziness, vote against the WWW in the WEB:) http://itolympics.org/
The difference in ratings between 1992 and 1996 can be mostly attributed to the time difference, and the fact the 1996 games were held in the US. At prime time in the US, it's the middle of the night in Barcelona.
I'll answer that question by simply using your off-topic, bleating post as Exhibit A. As I always say, let those who can, do.
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'Dumb' is relative. In the case of contributors like the one who responded to my post, its easiest to simply consider the source and thank that it at least (apparently) has the gift of opposable thumbs and tool-making capabilities. Judging from the content of its (f)lame as well as its other posts, it doesn't get invited to parties where members of the opposite sex are present, so it has to have something I guess.
Slashdot's moderators apparently consider off-topic, personal attacks to be funny while modding down victimless humor. Slashdot's moderators apparently have their favorites and like to slap new posters in their precious little coterie around. Well, Slashdot and its moderators can bite me.
**plonk**
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...ignoring the "oooooh-shiny-let's-buy-that"-driven directives from Upper Manglement*, installing systems that Do The Right Thing, and then trying to fool Upper Manglement that we did, in fact, buy the hideously overpriced piece of crap that they chose.
That happens all the time, and should be in the Games.
*Why the fsck are the VPs making decisions on what hardware will be run?
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
While the parody issue is certainly worth considering, I'm worried that that won't stop the IOC. They've already exceeded other bounds (such as restricting a trademark to a certain domain), so it's entirely possible that the fact that it's a parody won't deter them from going after these guys. Furthermore, the fact that it's a parody doesn't make them immune to strong-arm tactics, which the IOC certainly has the resources to employ.
The hilarius thing is that the picture on that page looks a lot like Deon Hemings. Defending champion in the women's 400 Meter hurdles.
:)
At least she wasn't demonstrating alongside the lesser members of the Jamaican team yesterday
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At some point the law did provide for paradoy. But nowadays the law is on the side of whoever has the best paid lawyers. Anyone have the link for the PETA thing. I'm too lazy to find it just now. In any case this is what we have come to now.
Cypherpunks: Civil Liberty Through Complex Mathematics. Those who live by the sword die by the arrow.
"The DLL Recognition event was
canceled due to a GPF in the
scoring server"
Whoo-hoo!
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There is the annual ACM/IBM Programming Competition, Math Olympiad, and Physics Olympiad, aimed at students.
Fun and nerdy!
Even better:
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Your bank account has been accessed, and it has
been determined you have insufficient funds. We
are sorry. Please upload some cash and try again.
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"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
How about an event where contestants are required to find and fix mangled DLL's in Win9x?
You're using her as bait, Master!
Now, how long is it going to take for Bawls to become the 'official drink' of the IT olympics?
or perhaps folgers as well?
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But, believe it or not, Bridge is being considered as a demo "sport" for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
See the referent in this article (about halfway down).
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
I hope there is not a law against satire.
PETA
It seems that at one time they had the "peta.org" domain name, but it was confiscated by our wonderful US government after some legal disputes with those <flame>animal rights wakkos</flame>
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Looks like one of the events should be fixing of the www.itolympics.org site.
No kidding
A food store on the east coast got busted for offering "Olympic Sized Savings" in the newspaper.
" almost 50 percent of the audience of the Olympics doesn't normally watch sporting events. "
and "Women want to get personal. They want warmly intimate stories, not athletic competition and cold hard scores."
So there's your answer, if you choose to understand it. They're giving the viewer what she wants.
Is the link bad? or did we Whack-a-mole the site already?
Because you can't, you won't, and you don't stop...
Slashdot: 7/14/2000 - Olympic Committee Cracks Down On Domain Owners
Not to be the devil's sidekick. Just that any organization that can change US laws to gain exclusive use of a particular word in trademarks seems very evil. And given their past track record, they'll surely go after this one, right or wrong.
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Is is just me or is this website being redirected to http://lion.multiline.com.au/ ? Looks like an unconfigured box from here.
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how many cobalts you can buy?
ITOlympics.com is a placeholder for someone's Cobalt. Try www.itolympics.org
/. is a commercial entity. goto slashdot.com
How long before we see actual computer-based events? (Saw on Foxtrox the comic strip a few days ago, the school has a cyber-sports team... ) :-)
A 'sport' has to be played in 4 continents before it will be in the olympics, which we now have, so why not? After all, they play ping-pong!
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Good advertising scheme for Cobalt! Redirect links posted to slashdot to their own new server advertisement.
Tougher than it sounds, if this site's performance after being /.ed is anything to go on.
What is the world record for how fast a Beowolf server can run?
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Because you can't, you won't, and you don't stop...
the boiling of hot grits and then pouring them down ones pants event. This has captivated people for many weeks now and it will be the most respected of the events.
Thank You.
...what this means?
...but this page piqued my curiosity...
I kinda wondered when I saw the 'error msg' that with all the binary, but I figured it was just there to f*ck with our heads, because some of the bits are in groups of 9 and some in groups of 7... (click here and refresh a bunch if you're curious)
anyone care to translate?
If I had anything witty to say, I wouldn't put it in my
So, how long before the IOC sues them for daring to register a domain with the word 'olympics' in it without payaing the proper bribe?
Oh, yeah, whoever though that black text on a dark blue background was a good idea needs to be shot, raised from the dead, and shot again - because obviously once isn't enough.
It's been nearly an hour and the wrong url is still being displayed on the article. Do the editors just post a story and walk away, forgetting it was even there. Does any member of Slashdot even read the page anymore, or the comments? At least they got the url right on the submitter's email, just not the web page.
but i know i'm still pumped from using the mouse...
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Sure, they covered the American athlete, but they shouldn't have given her 95% coverage when she was 5 mins off the lead and 6th!
You didn't know they were going to do that? Ever since Seoul '88, their coverage has been: "Look, there's an American! He/She is out of the running, but look at Him/Her! Oh yeah, there are some furriners competing, but why would you want to look at them, after all we're showing you the AMERICAN!"
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
One of the short stories in Asimov's Nine Tomorrows dealt with future sporting events. One of the characters competed in a metalurgy event. this isn't that far from the mark.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
I'd guess it would be like "Many happy returns!" (wishing someone a safe journey, and please visit again/often). fnord on the other hand...
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Don't ask me.. I was just hoping to 'feed the trolls' a bit.. Didn't get any bites tho.. Guess the collective /. obsession with her wore off..
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What?
Not being retarded.
see "The Principia Discordia or How I Found The Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her" by Malaclypse the Younger
We do not harm children, we love children Well asshole, my father "loved" me the way you "love" children, and it took me fifteen long years, 3 of them spent on the street, to overcome the guilt, pain, and feelings of worthlessness that my father's "love" brought me, so fuck you, and fuck all your kind, I have an 8 mo old daughter, and if anyone, ever tries to "love" her like you would, I'll slit 'em from scortum to sternum and leave they're carcass to rot on the street. Oh, btw, did I say FUCK you, I meant to say FUCK YOU!!!!
just a note about NBC's coverage - I heard a commentator describe an athlete as "soon to be genealogist from Johns Hopkins". It seems to me that that kid's parents are getting shafted if they're paying Johns Hopkins to teach him how to research his ancestry...
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I don't get it. What are the s? I'm more and more worried.
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Do ya feel happy-go-lucky, punk?
I'm not a fan of announcers in general, they just ramble on about things not even related to the event. Instead of bitching about it (which is a perfectly reasonable response), I press the nice little mute button, after all, that's what it's there for.
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Current IT Olympic Record: 38.12 seconds.
And, of course, there's the Outlook Virus Writing Challange...
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off of the home page broken supposed to be funny. This could have been cool too bad that it is not done very well.
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I can't get to it. Maybe the IOC already sued them for copyright infringement and got their site pulled.
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I was part of the group that did the Results (scorekeeping and data distribution) systems for the Atlanta Olympics. One of the cool parts of that job was that during the games we got to sit up in the commnetator booths and watch the live raw TV feed that NBC and the other stations then use to make their broadcasts from. There was ZERO of Bob Costas' droning on about each athelete's triumph over advercity crap. I could watch ANY sport I wanted, ALL of them, with no BS commnetary. Now THAT's the way it should be!
You'd think with having tape delayed play back we could get more events shown? And yeah, we probably could, if they didn't waste more than half the air time playing up the "human interest" stories of the atheletes!
Oh well, I'm not watching much of them this time around. Seems rather boring. Live and in person was SOOO much better (except for the preliminary rounds of platform diving... 40+ divers getting 5 dives each with 3 minutes between each. Made for a LONG night)
We already have the Usenet Olympics :)
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
What does "Many happy s!" mean? I'm worried.
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Do ya feel happy-go-lucky, punk?
Actually, they have a >1Mb link and a 256K link for that particular web server.
The domain owner has not paid for hosting yet, so the domain isn't up .. odd that slashdot linked to it.
Also odd that no-one else at the company you work for could figure out what was going wrong when a tech support call was placed, yet you're here telling us about the problem without doing anything to fix it. Talking about errors on your customer's links in a public forum is the sort of thing that gets people sued.
man the moderators have been smoking the 2.50 crack again
Take this personaility test.
Troll? Damn moderators have no sense of humour.
I thought this was pretty obvious, but it doesn't look like anyone has said anything about it. People are complaining about the site being broken, but its not. It is obviously working quite well: it's supposed to give the error message. Think about the 'IT Olympics' and the irony in it 'not working'. Obviously the pages are dynamic and are pulling the results randomly from a database or something... which appears to be what it's supposed to do._ __________
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The Usenet Olympics brought us such events as the 400-Post Relay and the "Asbestos Man" Triathlon. If you remember the "atheletes, you'll enjoy it.
When I realized that the link to the site was broken, I alt-tabbed to a term, did a whois for the net and org TLD variants. Upon the response, I deftly and deliberatly doubleclicked the URL textbox and re-entered the site using .org. Twenty seconds, and no use of the "Back" button.
Oh, and my dismount was spectacular.
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I forgot to say click on an article to get the error.
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