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Techies and Trekkies Unite!
emmetropia writes: "Startrek.com has announced that there is going going to be an Online Convention in early August. Every attendee will be able to make themselves look like any of your favorite ST species, Borg, Klingon, Vulcan, Terran, Ferengi, etc etc. The servers for the event are supposed to be able to handle up to 100,000 users, which would mean a rather large convention, let's just hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as Final Fantasy. With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?"
Beam me up, Scotty.
I have a holodeck already! I did it with a beowolf cluster of dreamcasts...
For years to approximate geeky conversations between Spock and Kirk, I've been using this web site!
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its trekker, not trekkie!
Get jobs or ladies or something.
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Sounds suspiciously like a chat room program with a clunky Flash interface. Woo.
Ohh they were fun back in err what 97 :)
Wonder round a badly made 3D world, where people would try to talk to you, but you all really longed for a chain saw...
Hmm.... shame it costs to play with, that would be fun.
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
Are any of the "real" characters going to be there virtually? And, if so, how does one know whether one is chatting up the real Beverley or an imposter?
mysql> select * from human where (human.trekkie=1 and human.techie=0);
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Oddly enough, treckies chances of getting laid at this convention are identical to those of getting laid at a real convention.
UGH! No Linux/Mac interface. Geesh, they should of just used the Quake 2 engine instead. You know that was portable.
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A professor at the University of Mississippi is giving a
lecture on the supernatural. To get a feel for his
audience, he asks: "How many people here believe in
ghostses?" About 90 students raise their hands.
"Well, that's a good start. Out of those of you who
believe in ghostses, do any of you think you've ever seen
a ghostse?" About 40 students raise their hands.
"That's really good. Has anyone here ever talked to a
ghostse?" 15 students raise their hands.
"That's great. Has anyone here ever touched a ghostse?" 3
students raise their hands.
"That's fantastic. But let me ask you one question
further... Have any of you ever made love to a ghostse?"
One student way in the back raises his hand.
The professor is astonished and says, "Son, all the
years I've been giving this lecture, no one has ever
claimed to have slept with a ghostse. You've got to come
up here and tell us about your experience."
The redneck student replies with a nod and a grin, and
begins to make his way up to the podium. The professor
says, "Well, tell us what it's like to have sex with
ghostse."
The student replies, "Ghostse?!? From ah-way back there ah
thought yuh said "goatse."
How long before someone 0wns the convention server system?
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
Rather than going to a traditional sci-fi convention where I would fail to get laid, I can attend an online convention and fail to get cybersex. Computers really have improved my life...
One of my favorite ways to have fun. I dress up in my Jedi robes with my lightsaber, and crash the real convetions. Had a friend who would dress up as Solo too. Damn the trekkies would go apeshit. But then we took it too far, and my friend started in on someone dressed up as Scotty about how the Falcon could outrun that ugly looking enterprise... The second largest ST convetion riot in North America.
Ouch.
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The trekkies already know they are virgins, do they have to shove the 'V' word right in their faces?
sig's not here
It's like an imaginary convention except you're not the only loser there.
I have been pwned because my
Finally, I can look like a Terran!
Hey, can I go as Lone Star?
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
Was it just strange coincidence that I have caught this thread at 7 of 9 comments? I think not. =)
And what about the the ability to handle 100,000 clients, is that really going to be enough? I mean, there are a lot of admitted trekkies in the world, but there are several more out there in the 'closet' which would see something this as a welcomed invite to attend a trekkie convention whereas they wouldn't have in RealLife(tm).
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What's worse? Not getting cybersex or finding out you just did it with some guy pretending to be a Ferengi female. *shudder*
With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?
Yes.
Next question?
That out of all the space going races in the star trek universe, the race the American government most resembles is the Ferengi....
M0571y H@rml355.
Online convention
One more reason Star Trek fans
Will never get laid
Welcome to the future, ladies and gentlemen.
"To make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -Carl Sagan
I'am a techy, a geek, a nerd, call it what you want. And, I hate Startrek ! I really do hate Startrek. I mean, that Startrek stuff is so, so, ...
Arfff, there's no word for that boring sclerotic half-assed sit-com, full of wooden third rate actors, stupid plots, 3 hours long "meaningful glances", you know, all those crappy sitcom gimmicks. May be Startrek is not the worst of the sitcom lot, but it's still a damn bloody lousy sitcom. If you want SF, read Frank Herbert, Dan Simmons, etc. I don't know. Do something ! But not Startrek, please, not Startrek.
Startrek is dumb and life is too short to do dumb things. So please, stop slapping Startrek and Geekdom together, please, please, please....
SNS Not Sig
With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?
Yes.
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A holodeck is quite different from an online conference. Even if it is in 3D. I think we're a LONG way from having a holodeck like environment. We probably won't see such a thing in our lifetimes, or for that matter, our kids lifetimes.
Brian
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Therefore I am unsurprised that "techies" (i.e. a bunch of young, rich, white males) would be drawn to this show. Nor am I surprised that I will be modded down for pointing any of this out.
[1]By feminist thinkers. I've never watched it myself.
Angela Taylor, PhD
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Feminist, scientist, scholar, woman
Yup, we're on the runt end of humanity here, folks.
As much as I like the term terran, they always refer to earthlings as "humans" Star Trek.
Anyone else notice that this ST convention is going to be on the same three days (August 2nd - 4th) in Las Vegas as Defcon X is going to be? Drunk techies and trekies in Las Vegas = biggest, nerdiest party ever.
sigs are dumb.
At a virtual con, when I can be downloading porn?
and your lack of same, but I am sadly disenfranchised from the penis length measuring game of self-worth determination.
Angela Taylor, PhD
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Feminist, scientist, scholar, woman
RAAR!
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As an avid fan, I was interested and decided to sign up. I happened to mistakingly clicked on their privacy policy and I found this buried in the bottom:
VCLLC may also sell, transfer or otherwise disclose user information, including PII, in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets, or other fundamental corporate change.
So, if they all of sudden become a porn spewing outfit, they have all those email addys and what they call "PII" (personally identifiable information -- like your address and phone number)at their disposal.
Stupid internet.
Give me a Vulcan any day. Superior strength, stamina and physiological control. The sexy pointed ears are just the creme^H^Ham on the pudding baby.
In fact, all leadership roles on Star Trek, old and new, are white males. Spock. McCoy and Scotty both headed up sections of their own. Picard. Riker. Every single "Federation" person ever seen on screen. The black woman was a receptionist. The Asian a chauffer. The "Russian" was another young, white male with a bad accent.
And on the new show there are no minorities at all, except Worf who is basically a futuristic black street thug.
Angela Taylor, PhD
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Feminist, scientist, scholar, woman
C'mon, especially those who've attended a con Marriott Hunt Valley in Cockeysville, MD, a Virtual Con can't supply a comfortable seat at the Paddock Bar and the soothing waters of a well-attended jacuzzi.
;P).
And that's probably the best thing about a con -- the afterhours partying and socializing (and, ahem, other activities between/among consenting adults
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
Your other claims are similarly ridiculous.
Angela Taylor, PhD
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Feminist, scientist, scholar, woman
...to see a small groups of Vorlons crash the party and start talking cryptic trash to the trekkies. :-)
"How do you think this Convention is going to end?"
"In fire."
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
And ask yourself how often Janeway runs to the men of the ship for "guidance", then compare that number to how often Kirk gives any creedence to the slightest utterance from Uhura.
Angela Taylor, PhD
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Feminist, scientist, scholar, woman
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You want all the people that are trekkies and techies, right? I'm maybe a little rusty, but wouldn't you want something like this:
mysql> select * from human where (human.trekkie=1 and human.techie=1);
That is, you want all rows where the records indicate that the subject is both a trekkie and a techie? Or maybe it'd be more clear if you had two columns like this:
CREATE TABLE human (
id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
trekkie ENUM('YES','NO') DEFAULT 'NO',
techie ENUM('YES','NO') DEFAULT 'NO'
);
Then you could say:
mysql> select * from human where (human.trekkie='YES' and human.techie='YES');
Which is the same thing, I guess. Maybe. I'm not sure. Anyway, this got much too geeky...
-B
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With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?
Is it some unofficial rule that the last sentence in a story (either of the submitter or the posters making) has to be incredibly banal and idiotic?? This one about takes the cake...yeesh.
This just goes to show that Star Trek kicks Star Wars' ass!
Sounds like a prime opportunity to test out those miniature tactical nukes our government is whispering about. Whoever it doesn't kill, it sterilizes -- Something that would allow us to forget the past as well as preventing this sort of thing from happening in the future.
Sounds like a good deal to me.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
Gee, would anyone at this online convention believe CleverNickName when he says "Hi! I'm Wil Wheaton!" in all virtual Wesleyness?
Vorlon: They are a dying race.
Us: Microsofties? or Hollingites?
Vorlon: Yes.
More like the Ass end of the Internet.
(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!)
Who run Barter Town?
That which is one cannot unite.
Stupidity is mis-underestimated.
3D CONVENTION CENTER MINIMUM COMPUTER SPECIFICATIONS
Operating System: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, XP and 2000.
Taken from www.vir-con.net.
Line 9: Argument of type SIGNATURE expected.
Interesting that they are hosting the convention with technology from Blaxxun Interactive, a company that went bust couple of months ago. Wonder how viable are their plans to get 100,000 people online based on a dead non-supported proprietary technolgy..
This is from Blaxxun.com site : "blaxxun interactive AG began insolvency proceedings on 1 March 2002. All options for preserving some part of the company or for exploiting the blaxxun software are currently being considered."
Blaxxun is based on the old VRML Java crap, no way I'm going to believe it could support 100,000 online users at the same time. To my understanding there are far better technologies to do that out there, www.taikatech.com, www.zona.net and www.rebelarts.com to name a few.
They're going to have to make the avatars quite a bit more chubby if they're going to make it seem like a real convention.
The pupose of conventions is to bring strange people together. Onine is no fun.
I think not. 3D pictures on a screen is one thing. Having it surround you and convince you that it is reality is someting all together different.
I don't think it wasn't in SQL. I tried typing it in and all it did was give me an error message.
I was getting rather worried that this site had degraded into just another News For Tech People site... honestly, there's something wrong with the world when i can open up the front page of /. and not see a single article that I'd be embarrassed to admit I was reading.
I can feel my emotional pocket protector growing strong once again.
-d
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of thousands of geeks at a con won't they have to perfect Digiscents iSmell as well?
;)
Hmm, come to think of it, I might actually pay more to attend virtually than physically if they promised not to turn that on
>to the power of Infinity minus one, an irrational number
No. Aleph(0) is the infinity of the integers. Aleph(1) is the infinity of the continuum.
Aleph(i)=2**Aleph(i-1)
Aleph(i)+Aleph(j)=Aleph
Aleph(i)*Aleph(j)=Aleph(Max(i,j))
And so forth. So 2^infinity-1 = infinity, where "infinity" is whichever infinity you were talking about in the first place.
This is basic transfinite arithmetic,
hawk, who learned this directly from Halmos
(yes, *that* Halmos)
I really like Star Trek, although I've never been to a convention. I partially agree with the earlier reply that said "try out some Frank Herbert." If you call yourself a ST fan and have NOT read all six books of the Dune Chronicles you are missing a world at least as provocative as the Star Trek realities.
(BTW: The last time I logged in was a year ago and I don't have my password anymore. I am MuadDib@dunechronicles.com NOT anonymous coward.)
The changes are about 10000% better at a con like our Mid South Science Fiction and Fantasy Con. It's fan run and its in Memphis. As you might know, Memphis has its own little bubble of reality. I can explain it, but you will not believe it until you see it yourself.
Next Con is in March 2003 at the Holiday/Airport/comfort/budget/whatthehellnameit willbein2003 hotel by the airport. More info to come!