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MillionManLAN Party: The Doors Are Open
socram writes "Tom's Hardware has an overview about one of the biggest Lan Parties. This event is sponsored by AMD, ATI, ASUS, ABIT, Cisco, NVIDIA, and the Hitachi storage division. Check this article out, more than 1000 people killing their brain cells! Presentation by ASUS, ATI's Q&A Session and more."
Does this event actually fit one million people, or is that just hyperbole?
Dreamhack Summer 2003 had about 4000 visitors.
Hope it will be well ventilated. Even at small LAN parties, no matter how much cologne is sprayed, the BO from geeks quickly takes over the whole room. Hate to see what happens with one million nerds...
They should have put the servers in the women's restroom. Might as well, as they wouldn't get used otherwise.
Firstly, this must be one of the most poorly written /. "news" items in the history of the website. "Tom's Hardware has an overview about one of the biggest Lan Parties". That sorry excuse for a sentence alone makes me sick.
Second, with LANs like DreamHack attracting I believe around 5000 visitors each year (actually twice each year, since there's both DH Summer and DH Winter nowadays), a LAN of merely a thousand peeps hardly qualifies as "one of the biggest" IMO. Reading the official website they seem to really think they're the largest LAN party in the world, judging from the "about" page. A bit US-centric are we? Morons.
I won't even go into how the whole thing seems more like a giant marketing gig (the people attending are basically paying $30/day to be fed advertisments from AMD, ASUS et al) than a LAN party.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
I really doubt most of the attendees even have children. It's a LAN party, not a vacation trip! And if you need a theme park to "make the trip more worthwhile", then you are not geek enough for this kind of event anyways! It's about surviving through days and nights of antisocial filesharing, fragging and fun, even if you need a Jolt Cola IV. Who has times for themeparks? The UT2k3 tournament is about to start!
Indeed, but also - remember The Gathering, Norway (this year, The Gathering again reclaimed the throne as the world's largest computer gathering with 5100 attendants).
But again, it's a computer party, not a strictly LAN-party. For those of you not into this, check tg.nlc.no/notalan.html for more information regarding competitions not game-oriented.
Linux IS user friendly, it's just choosy of who it's friends are.
If the BO from the geeks could be unberable imagine the bathrooms!
Those gamers that are able to place a round into the head of another player within 50 ms from 1000 feet are commonly unable to get their piss into a foot wide hole right in front of them.
But the mothers don't count.