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Nest, jmccay writes: "The New Hampshire meetup was great. We didn't have a host, but somebody reserved a table. I think it was the meetup people. We talked geeky stuff (and complained about the new word based karma system). We had the hardware comparison (and one-up contest for a couple of people). All in all I enjoyed it and I am looking forward to next time. I hope more people show up next time (only 5 out of 24 showed up this time {I just checked}). I think voting begins Saturday for the next meetup place!"
MattyBoy.bigBalls() writes: "So the first Slashdot Meet Up is done in Toronto. Lets see ... I got pretty blasted ... talked about programming/video games/movies/science ... basically everything on slashdot ... someone asked me my user name and I had the pleasure of responding MattyBoy.bigBalls() hahahaha ... I met some girl who's into skateboarding/linux/punk rock and slashdot.. that's just odd And since im in Toronto on the subway ride home I had a conversion with some world youth day kid about god.. yikes ... thats scary when I'm wasted ... Rock OUT!"
InfinityWpi writes: "Just a quick reporting-in on the Slashdot Meetup Day in Fargo, North Dakota. We had 11 names on the Meetup list, four people RSVP... and three show up, one of whom hadn't RSVP'd. Still, the meeting went on until almost ten."
Finally, mmarlett writes: "The Wichita, Kan. Slashdot meetup just wrapped up. It was a tight, eight-person group. There were some interesting facts, though:
- Most of us sustained some sort of heavy electrical shock as children, either by inserting metallic things into outlets or cutting hot wires. Monitor coils were also popular.
- No one brought a digital camera, but everyone said they'd bring one next time.
- None of us could remember anyone's name. Once we paid the tab and removed the nametags, it was a lot of "what was your name, again?"
"We ran into problems due to the assigned meeting place being closed at the scheduled meetup time"
/. as well ;-)
Never knew bartenders read
I think they should use the animal I'll be reincarnated as instead of these adjectives, so that I'd have Karma: Cow.
Well, let me explain the word-based karma system. Basically, if your post includes words like "Micro$oft", "Windoze" or "Beowulf", you'll instantly get modded-up by some clueless modbot.
On the other hand, if you make references to the Slashdot crew's gross incompetence with spelling, grammar and actually GETTING NEWS RIGHT (see the numerous incorrect FreeBSD "releases"), or anything else Sims, Bates or Malda don't like, you'll get modded down. As this post will, because it expresses anti-Slashdot sentiment.
Don't get me wrong, I read Slashdot a lot, but it's pretty damn laughable in places. This new post-limiting system has been a disaster -- instead of leaving the trolls at -1, now janitors and modbots spend all their time modding script-posters down! What a waste.
Just my thoughts. Watch it get modded down instead of generating genuinely interesting debate.
I think they should use the animal I'll be reincarnated as instead of these adjectives, so that I'd have Karma: Cow.
Negative karma presumably means reincarnation as CowboyNeal.
-Stephen
"We had the hardware comparison "
On non-geek meetings this would've painted a whole other picture.
l.t 10 - Goat
10 - 19 - Sheep
20 - 29 - Dog
30 - 39 - Bunny
40 - 49 - Cat
"Still, the meeting went on until almost ten."
That's when the scriptkiddies moms wanted them to be home.
Everyone hates cats.
I wish there the ratings had an associated animal,instead of adjectives;
:)
and anyone with karma of 0 or negative can be rated a tac-er.. troll
sigh... Sometimes it's just not worth it to post in the morning...
If you're gonna use animals for Karma scores Cow should definitly be the highest...
Huntin for frags since 1994
I figured that since a few Pittsburgh people RSVPed someone would actually show up. I sat around in an empty bar for about a 1/2 hour waiting for someone to come, drinking a over blended whiskey sour, and eating stale pretzels. Who the hell picked that place anyways? The only upside to this was the place picked is a 5 minuted drive from my place.
And yes, it was just me in the bar. Not even another customer. Just me and the old bartender who could hear anything I said. Argh, stupid meet-up.
Ping the server before attemting to get higher level services. :) This can done useing the public switched telephony network or by sending a single client to the server to verify its service status.
Most Meatspace servers will also provide a prodiction of when services will be avalable in the future.
Change your ratingsystem to
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religions [...]
Yeah, and watch OSDN get sued into oblivion when everyone with a negative karma is designated a Scientologist.
"Are you being weird, or sarcastic?" said Emma. I said I didn't know because I get the two feelings mixed up.
Maybe one day get married and raise some kids. That's accomplishment
Getting married and raising kids is simply adding to global over-population and accomplishing what's expected of you in most cultures. Hardly something to feel like you've accomplished something important. Then again, if that's all you expect from your life, it's probably a fairly easy life to live.
everytime we tried to get into a heavy discussion on ipv6, or Win XP, these barely dressed women would walk by, dance around a pole, and try to sit on our laps. You didn't miss much.
It's spelled "Katz". And...um...yeah, lameness filter dodging in full effect, yo.
do not read this line twice.
Slashdotted? ;) sorry.. couldn't pass that one up :)
mind you might have been 10 am the next day.... :-)
that's what's drugs do to you!!
if (!signature) { throw std::runtime_error("No sig!"); }
Everyone here knows that Karma is representative of a users penis size.
Did any chicago/burbs people go? I would have gone but frankly you people scare me. :)
Rob
"I attempted (when I was 8) to fix a clock my mom got for Christmas but died 2 months later."
You're posting from the afterlife? Or is this Shirley Maclain?