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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.
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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!
Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!
If there is a mistake, well, you should have used the Preview button!
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
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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I'm on a chair.
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.
...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)
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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"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
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."
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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I hope there is not a law against satire.
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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ITOlympics.com is a placeholder for someone's Cobalt. Try www.itolympics.org
/. is a commercial entity. goto slashdot.com
Tougher than it sounds, if this site's performance after being /.ed is anything to go on.
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Cannot complete requested action. There must be
some reason, but who knows why.
Please try again
HTTP Error 834
This is the error that broke our servers
back. We will now have to go back and
reboot everything.
(Thanks a lot)
HTTP Erro
Microsoftie OLE DB Provider for ODBC
Drivers error "80040e30"
[Microsoftie][ODBC SQEL Server
Driver][SQEL Server]What do you mean
"hyperlink"?
Unknown
An unknowing error has unknowlingly
been accessed. Please go back and try
again.
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.
I wondered how long it would be before Secret Service agents stormed my apartment after registering and setting up a website called "screwtheolympics.com"
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.
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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Odd... I always thought of bridge as a summer sport, with cribbage as a winter one
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"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
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)
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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What is the world record for how stupid a /. poster can be?
42.
If I had anything witty to say, I wouldn't put it in my