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Next Week, 500+ Geek Talks Around the World

Posted by timothy on from the cheaper-than-ted-talks-too dept.

Brady Forrest writes "Next week, from March 1-5 there will be ~65 Ignite events happening around the world. Ignite is an opportunity for geeks to share their passions and ideas with local peers. Each speaker gets 20 slides that each auto-advance after 15 seconds for a total of just 5 minutes. The result is bite-size chunks of information that inform the crowd on new topics. Most of the Ignites will be streamed on the new Ignite video site."

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  1. Pointless by Areyoukiddingme · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Seriously. How pointless. Ideas are cheap. Ideas are free. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Ideas are [insert cliched metaphor about overwhelming abundance here]. What a waste of time. We have the Internet. We have freakin' Slashdot. Ignite is not only redundant, it's likely to be a freak show. Full of otaku and Timecube types.

    Ideas are worthless without execution, and execution doesn't happen without money (with the sole exception of open source software). I could give a 20 slide 5 minute presentation about 40 different tech-related things but I'm not even going to bother to watch the online video of that event because I've heard it all before, just like all of you have, and I'm getting heartily tired of having my face pressed up against the glass of the candy store wishing I had a nickel in my grubby little hand.

    I'll keep reading Slashdot, keep wading through all the stories about the advancing copyright police state to find the few interesting stories about hardware being built by people who do have a few nickels. But I won't listen to a bunch of losers just like me, full of ideas and enough technical know-how to be dangerous, but going nowhere fast.

    1. Re:Pointless by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      1. Networking: find people who are interested into tech and want to HIRE!

      Uh, tech economy's in the shitter, nobody's hiring unless you count Best Buy which would pay me less than I'm already collecting on unemployment. NEXT!

      2. Geek Gals: find a lovely maiden who will not resist intellectual talk.

      They don't exist. Once in awhile you'll find an ordinary attention whore who says she plays Halo now and then just to get the ego-fix from scores of horny losers. Try to talk to one of those about computer architecture. "Lol lets talk about anime instead! Dragon Ball Z is the coolest show*" NEXT!

      3. something to do: fighting boredom.

      Hence, trolling Slashdot. And no, I'm not Areyoukiddingme, but I do relate.

      * Dragon Ball Z is by far the most puerile, retarded show ever made. The fight scenes are retarded, the characters are stupid-looking and wear the perpetual squinty-eyed shit-eating grin of a pedophile watching the swings at the park. Retarded, retarded, retarded.