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WWDC Sells Out In 2 Minutes; Ticket On eBay 45 Minutes Later
alphadogg writes "The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference sold out in just two minutes today, blowing away last year's record of two hours. Tickets went on sale today at 10 a.m. PDT, as was announced yesterday, when Apple said its event would be held June 10-14 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Apple WWDC runs neck-and-neck with the annual Google I/O event in the race for hottest tech show. The Google event, slated for May 15-17 at Moscone Center, sold out in 45 minutes this year. While transferring tickets for WWDC is generally not allowed, an ambitious eBay seller is attempting to get $10K for the $1,600 ticket."
No proof that the ebay auction is connected to a real ticket. Guh you people are so damn gullible.
A corrupt slashdot luser has pentrated the moderation system to downmod all my posts while impersonating me.
Nearly 230++ times that I know of @ this point for all of March/April 2013 so far, & others here have told you to stop - take the hint, lunatic (leave slashdot)...
Sorry folks - but whoever the nutjob is that's attempting to impersonate me, & upset the rest of you as well, has SERIOUS mental issues, no questions asked! I must've gotten the better of him + seriously "gotten his goat" in doing so in a technical debate & his "geek angst" @ losing to me has him doing the:
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A.) $10,000 challenges, ala (where the imposter actually TRACKED + LISTED the # of times he's done this no less, & where I get the 230 or so times I noted above) -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3585795&cid=43285307
&/or
B.) Reposting OLD + possibly altered models - (this I haven't checked on as to altering the veracity of the info. being changed) of posts of mine from the past here
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(Albeit massively repeatedly thru all threads on /. this March/April 2013 nearly in its entirety thusfar).
* Personally, I'm surprised the moderation staff here hasn't just "blocked out" his network range yet honestly!
(They know it's NOT the same as my own as well, especially after THIS post of mine, which they CAN see the IP range I am coming out of to compare with the ac spamming troll doing the above...).
APK
P.S.=> Again/Stressing it: NO guys - it is NOT me doing it, as I wouldn't waste that much time on such trivial b.s. like a kid might...
Plus, I only post where hosts file usage is on topic or appropriate for a solution & certainly NOT IN EVERY POST ON SLASHDOT (like the nutcase trying to "impersonate me" is doing for nearly all of March/April now, & 230++ times that I know of @ least)... apk
P.S.=> here is CORRECT host file information just to piss off the insane lunatic troll:
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21++ ADVANTAGES OF CUSTOM HOSTS FILES (how/what/when/where/why):
Over AdBlock & DNS Servers ALONE 4 Security, Speed, Reliability, & Anonymity (to an extent vs. DNSBL's + DNS request logs).
1.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program). A truly "multi-platform" UNIVERSAL solution for added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs + DNSBL's you feel are unjust hosts get you past/around).
2.) Adblock blocks ads? Well, not anymore & certainly not as well by default, apparently, lol - see below:
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option )
AND, in only browsers & their subprogram families (ala email like Thunderbird for FireFox/Mozilla products (use same gecko & xulrunner engines)), but not all, or, all independent email clients, like Outlook, Outlook Express, OR Window "LIVE" mail (for example(s)) - there's many more like EUDORA & others I've used over time that AdBlock just DOES NOT COVER... period.
Disclaimer: Opera now also has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF or Chrome etc..
3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF (non-mozilla/gecko engine based) family based wares, So AdBlock doesn't protect email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows "LIVE" mail & others like them (EUDORA etc./et al), Hosts files do. THIS IS GOOD VS. SPAM M
So can someone maybe get a leak of the attendee list so I can write a script that eliminates them from all my social media platforms?
Jizzed in pants. $1600 well spent.
Uhhhhhh Yeah. I'll get right on that.
Hideki!
Just curious, as an iOS and an OS X dev before that, I've never really seen any reason to go to this -- even when I lived close enough I happened to walk by it on my way to the Whole Foods one year. Is there a lot of opportunity to make sales or schmooze your way into Apple employees' good graces? Otherwise, I'm not sure what the point is if you already know how to use the APIs and don't have a problem reading about upcoming changes online. I do remember them having some freebies and stuff at previous ones, but nothing worth the ticket price.
WWDC sold out when they got bought by Chancellor Media, which then merged into Clear Channel. Wait... ummm... what? Some lame Apple conference? Nevermind.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Apple fanboys slobber each others knobs to get tickets to WWDC. I hear the flavor-aid is supposed to be awesome this year!
The guy who is scalping a ticket for $10k probably isn't worried about whether it's transferable and the buyer can get in or not. He's looking for a buyer with cash.
in the "I don't give a shit" column. How is this stuff that matters?
And not fanboys?
(For reference, I remember being an actual Apple Developer, and receiving the monthly CDROMs with amusing titles)
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
The session videos are usually available the next week. Occasionally I'll write some app to automate some task on my mac, and I've really enjoyed watching the videos in previous years. Definitely stuff for nerds;)
Having hands that one of my kids once told me resembled bear paws... oversized and clumsy, something about the same size as the Galaxy S3 would be ideal for my purposes, because I've always found the iPhone display to be unusably tiny for anything involving complex interactivity (such as texting, for instance).
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Dear AC, you're the lunatic 'luser' with mental issues.
Get professional help or go spam other websites for a change. Try your shit on Reddit. Or better yet, try it on 4chan then get back to us with the results.
Aren't they going to stream all the sessions live on the web to anyone with an Apple Dev ID? I'm not sure what that $1600 buys you. There are probably some hardware and software handouts, but aren't those available by other means as well?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
How utterly pathetic.
I do remember them having some freebies and stuff at previous ones
They give you a track jacket and that is IT. The track jacket does not have pockets. One year the did give away a nice, if simplistic, backpack. Unlike many other conferences there are no vendors, hence no other free stuff.
Otherwise, I'm not sure what the point is if you already know how to use the APIs and don't have a problem reading about upcoming changes online.
There are a few points of value that have diminished. The first is that the WWDC sessions have usually a lot of good demos about HOW to use the new technology, which is quite a lot more useful than just reading about the raw API. The second was that people used to ask questions after the presentation, which was not on the video - that was done away with last year though, which is a real shame as the questions were often full of insight about the technology and potential issues.
But since as noted they stopped taking questions, and you can also see the videos a week later that reason is not as prominent (though it doesn't hurt to be a bit ahead of the curve).
schmooze your way into Apple employees' good graces?
That's not really a reason to go as it will not do much for you. But what is still valuable there is that you can talk to Apple engineers directly responsible for the different frameworks across the iOS API. These labs took some time to get to someone who was really one of the primary developers, but when you did reach them it could be very useful to find the answer to some deep problem.
It's also useful just to talk to other developers there, pretty much anyone who is there is usually pretty knowledgeable and has worked on some interesting stuff.
It's also good to take a solid week off work and just think about upcoming changes to the API and direction Apple is going,
Also on a side note WWDC usually has some pretty cool lunchtime speakers, last year for instance J.J. Abrams and Neil Armstrong were speakers (different days), for a few years they had a guy from Pixar with a really good talk. It's not a reason to spend some effort and $1600 on a ticket, but it is a nice break.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
apk has been doing all the stuff that the 'luser' is being accused of for years, so if the person who wrote this is actually apk, pull your head in... if you can't take it don't (continue even now to) dish it out
if it's someone impersonating apk, get a life dude... at least impersonate someone noteworthy like steve jobs, linus torvalds, or even barack obama...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Lmcq7Qe6Y
feeding trolls is fun :)
$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski
* POOR SHOWING TROLLS , & most especially IF that's the "best you've got" - apparently, it is... lol!
Hello, and THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING !! We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.
Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?
Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.
If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.
I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.
Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.
Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.
I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.
If Natalie Portman is not measurable, hot grits are Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!
You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his ba
>Linus Torvalds
>noteworthy
I'll be impressed when they can match ComicCon San Diego, who have a hard time finding a ticket sales service that can stand up to more than a few seconds before it collapses under the load. The only reason it took 93 minutes to sell out completely was the slow server response times. Not many wet sites can handle 140,000+ people trying to log in at the same time.
While transferring tickets for WWDC is generally not allowed, an ambitious eBay seller is attempting to get $10K for the $1,600 ticket."
Trying to sell something to Apple users at 6 times the value instead of the usual 3 is ambitious indeed.
It seems to me without knowing how many tickets of both were sold its pointless to compare how long they took to sell out.
it's a geek site
Especially when it's FAKE.
it's jeremiah cornelius that is doing this. he slipped up once and forgot to check anon.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3581857&cid=43276741
fuck that piece of shit troll.
You may be thinking of the labs, where people can go to ask Apple engineers specific questions about different technologies or just get help with problems.
Workshops to be are really more like hands-on tutorials for learning, which does not exist at WWDC (it does at other conferences).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Hello Paul.
Oh teh noes! The Slashdot staff is going to be sued if they don't stop the "abuse"! This is scary now! Please, mister spammer! Don't sue Slashdot's staff! They could NEVAR fend off a prolonged court battle from the prestigious law firm of Your Delusions & Your Psychoses & The Voices In Your Head, Attorneys At Law! Have mercy on them! Hee hee! :-D
Google I/O, WWDC, SXSW, TED, etc... they are the new CES events.
People are not going for the techonology, innovations, deep-dive talks. They are going there for social and economic means to get cash. It's not about tech anymore, it's about the cash and hype [to make cash]. Adam Smith would be proud folks.
Apple went above and beyond the normal process, including law enforcment involvement, for recovering one of their prototypes. Why not just do the same to smite the practice and make an example out of those involved?
That, and if they're good at it, bind the ticket to a nontransferable item that has some worth to it(e.g. a non prepaid credit card that was used to purchase it) as well as whatever ID is already required to enter(such as government issue). $1600 admission definitely can demand such protection from scalping.
If Apple has to be draconian about something, nontransferabilty of WWDC admission would be a good place to start. Go Gallagher on the scalpers until they stop.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Please STOP REPLYING TO THIS BULLSHIT people. Thank you very much.
They should have a small coding test you have to get through in order to get to the sign up page.
... a retraction to this posted any moment.
Waiting...
(Detailed take-apart here.)
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
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For anyone who depends upon Apple for monetary gain (stockholders, developers, etc.), the inability of Apple to properly accommodate the developers who want or need to attend the developer conferences should be a major red flag.
chances are that they'd have sold out in 30 seconds if their website didn't die under the load.
Apple's servers also died under the load, just more gracefully (sort of) - the process worked for some people, for others like myself we just saw authentication errors the whole time. In reality I saw the "sold out" page way closer to 20 seconds after I saw the buy button than two minutes. The two minute figure is more like how long it took the stragglers to complete an order that was started in the first two seconds.
Comparing who sold out faster though when you are talking anything under a few minutes seems pretty pointless to me though. In the end obviously both are extremely popular events and you basically need to have some luck to get a ticket because no server can realistically handle the volume of interest they have.
I will point out that WWDC developers don't get free hardware to offset the cost though so it seems like you have to really be in it for the info alone...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
No seriously?
At the prices Apple is asking, let alone the ebay sellers?
I know some of these conferences will give you free technology - many intel ones hand out CPU's in the past or motherboards and CPU's, HP ones have handed out some decent hardware.
Are these people likely to get an ipad 5 or iphone 6 or even something current gen? The prices are madness. I think Google have given out a free Nexus before too.
this bullshit will always happen (unless slashcrap changes their web application to stop it, but why would they?)
so if you can't beat em, join em
he probably just likes feeding trolls...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3602979&cid=43331153
it's an honest hobby
If the talks would be about Darwin distros and OSX emulation layers.
Hey, if AAPL wants 30% of my App Store revenue, then I should be able to re-sell WWDC tickets at whatever markup will make up for the App Store Tax.
You're embarassing yourself Jeremiah Cornelius http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3581857&cid=43276741 since you posted that using your registered username by mistake (instead of your usual anonymous coward submissions by the 100's the past 2-3 months now on slashdot) giving away it's you spamming this forums almost constantly, just as you have in the post I just replied to.