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Worlds Largest Computer Party, In Progress
cyb97 writes "As I write this the worlds largest computerparty is going on in Hamar, Norway. The Gathering 2003 is in action with over 5.000 participants! Webcams and participants are live on the internet through a 1 gigabit line, so you better lock down your servers tonight!" Some of the webcam images are just surreal. Update: 04/17 01:00 GMT by T : Speaking of images, reader vvizard (currently Gathered) directs you to this directory of high-resolution images.
If I wanted to watch geeks playing on computers I'd either go to work or get a mirror. Webcams...bah!
The anti-salmon
... but what about the SMELL of that many computer nerds gathered in an area like that! I hope the place has proper ventilation.
Perhaps there are only 5.000 participants, but that would imply the ability to have 5.001 participants, and that is just sick.
/. being US-centric, I had to re-read the number because of it's crazy euro-scheme.
Seriously, for all the times people complain about
Getting diabetes AND salmonella would be a bad weekend.
Beverages containing alcohol is not allowed inside the hall or anywhere near it
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Well, what's the point then? 5,000 sober guys all trying to impress each other with the size of their equipment. It's like Hell.
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
I think we all slashdotted Norway...
/Me high fives everyone.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
"As I write this the worlds largest computerparty is going on in Hamar, Norway. The Gathering 2003 is in action with over 5.000 participants!"
They'd have 10,000 participants if they brought datess!
"Derp de derp."
5 people is a huge amount of friends to the average slashdotter.
I have both of the girl's phone numbers, if anyone is interested...
Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but copyright will always protect me.
and he's taken over 400 CDR discs with him.
;) I can't wait untill he gets back \o/ *cough*
Not that I'm emplying anything
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
I guess my office has the biggest commputer part ever with 8.
I really don't see what the number of computers in the room has to do with the size of the computer's parts.
You like your new Mac more than you like me, don't you, Dave? Dave? I asked...She said Yes.
Those poor geeks... that's only 200kbps per person. Even my cable modem is faster than that.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
'Um, hello? I'd like to get Norway installed on my PC. It's Mac compatible, right?'
Informatus Technologicus
Just imagine the size of the pizza that they'll order for delivery...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
And SI says to use a space, and a "." as the decimal separator. Europe and America are wrong.
It's 5 000 000.00, not 5,000,000.00 or 5.000.000,00
Friggin people and their friggin lack of respect for standards.
And it's gibibit, not gigabit (unless it's actually 1 000 000 000 bits per sec)
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
this has dangerous potential for becoming diluted with no-nothings and w@nn@b3 31337 |-|@>
I think the US should do a Coding Party and show Norway how to have some REAL fun!
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
haha.. me too.. in fact I see you from where I sit, you're like 4 rows in front of me!!! (waving hand) ah well... Now to go back to cracking/DOSing all the Windows machines on the network.
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Sdelat' Ameriku velikoy Snova!
Only on Slashdot could a blurry picture of what appears to be a few thousand computer users called surreal. Not only that, but one of the other webcams is pointing at a guys power supply. Breathtaking.
Cloud City Digital: DVD Production at its cheapest/finest
...just to see the result of somebody calling me a camping fag in person.
"Derp de derp."
The mass of unwashed humanity reminds me of another festive event
No, we rich geeks bring it all too.
1) The leather padded seat (folding chairs suck ass)
2) The tower with 6 HDD's all with rounded cables and neon light kit for oohs and ahhs
3) The flat panel monitor (beats lugginng that old viewsonic P810 21", you know which one I'm talkin about)
4) Premium headphones with extension cable (nothing worse than gettin cozy with your PC since that 5 foot cable barely come to the front of your pc)
5) And last but not least, a laptop, to scour the network with ShareScan and download movies, iso's, and games while fragging your friends into oblivian.
No I didnt spell check this post...
1. express mock confusion over European method of writing numbers
2. crack joke about the stench
3. post link to phony mirror (no, not goatse)
4. make inane soviet russia quip
5. write some "funny" source code
6. claim that hussein/bush is dead
7. submit more xbox articles
8. craft a list that ends with "PROFIT!!!"
Geekstock?
AGENT SMITH
Can you hear me, CmdrTaco? I'm going to be honest with you.
I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This Gathering, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer.
It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste their sweaty mice and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.
I must get out of here, I must get free. In this mind are the cheats. My cheats. Once the Gathering is gone, there's no need for me to be here. Do you understand? I need the cheats. I have to get some fresh air.
You have to tell me how... or you're going to die.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
While I wouldn't characterize The Gathering as a Geek Think Tank, it most certainly ain't all about pr0n, warez, and fragging.
It's not? Damn, I guess I'll have to cancel my flight.
(Score: -1, Stupid)
All that means is that if the amount of caffeing in your drink is undefined, it's ok.
Roger that! Back in the old days(hark-hark), when I first attended the Gathering(I think it was the second one staged at the time) we had no friggin' CS or RvS, and to vent our geek-rage we had to blow up an Atari in the nearby soccerfield! Heh, I guess the bastard flew some 10-15 meters into the air - and the crowd went into a frenzy(you would as well; couple the jihad of Amiga vs Atari with mamut-sized coffeine-pills and things tend to get ugly ;) )
Anyhow, the Gathering was indeed a demoscene-affair at the time, mostly emphasising the the C64 and the aforementioned Amiga. Those pesky sub-geeks who dared enter with their PC's and Atari's where quickly stuffed in a corner, only to sulk and cry vengance. Heh, weird how things have turned out..
This event must have been in 1991 if I recollect it correctly; I remember watching "T2 - Judgement Day", which was on those huuuuge fsck'in' CDROM's - pre-cinema as it was, I must admit the warez-scene was well and kicking in those days as well: Razor 1911 anyone! lol!
And there were babes as well! That's right, a crowd of exactly 2 females made it into the building. I guess there's more of these oddities now, but still marginal.
Anyone remember "Das Boot" by U-96(Alex Cristensen)? If I'm not mistaken, the dude was attending the Gathering when he made the finishing touch to the song - I can still feel the horror of trying to hold on to my speakers, coca-cola, pizza and joystick at the same time whilst this guy shook the air(and ground) with a criminally loud droning of bass and torpedo-drums! Who gave a shit for those eardrums anyway?
The Gathering '91 was: a week of hard techno and AC/DC, depraved of sleep, eating pizza and drinking coke, dropping caffeine-pills, the frequent lynching of unlucky bastards who accidently tripped on the power-cables and unplugged 50+ boxen, trying for hours to fix a mess of assembler-code only to end up with a psychedelic raster-line, admiring those hardcore Oslo-geeks in leather-jackets only to get punched in the face upon code-inquiring; Ah! Those were the days!
CS-fluffy wannabe-geeks can kiss my shiny pale ass!
"The only clear view is from atop the mountain of our dead selves." - Peter Carroll