Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Nobody else was using the pool. It was all mine

    And having a fat bearded Canadian in the pool had nothing to do with that?

    Jumping in the pool instead of using a shower does not constitute using the pool.

    Yes, I'm trolling the troll.



  •  @Heron said:

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    It was a joke... 

    Let me explain, and completely ruin it:

    Your skills in the realm of sarcasm have degraded to the point of nonexistence.  Probably because you spend too much time responding to trolls, and sarcasm doesn't work on them. (Yes, that's a trollish thing to say but I'm not a troll.  You just rub me the wrong way.)

    Apparently, the problem lies in you then. The joke was applied the correct way. You took it seriously. I cannot help you there. Sorry.



  • @bstorer said:

    You're equally likely to win this as you are to win, say, the Irish Derby.

    You mean this?



  • @SuperousOxide said:

    @bstorer said:
    You're equally likely to win this as you are to win, say, the Irish Derby.

    You mean this?

    DO NOT WANT! 



  • @me said:

    Wouldn't that be something, if I ended up voted president of the whole Earth and everyone worshipped me as a god? And the rest of you swampies got nothing. Boy wouldn't you look stupid then. Know-it-all Specatate!

    Now, I think that is far more likely to happen than SpecatateSwamp winning any sort of serious programming contest!

     



  • Oh man... I was having a pretty bad week until I saw this post. YAY! ROFL



  • Spectre swamp might win - because we all have too much other stuff to do.



  • @pitchingchris said:

    Spectre swamp might win - because we all have too much other stuff to do.

     

    Dude, WTF?!  Seriously, if Swampy entered a coding contest on his own he'd still come second. 



  •  @DaveK said:

    @pitchingchris said:

    Spectre swamp might win - because we all have too much other stuff to do.

     

    Dude, WTF?!  Seriously, if Swampy entered a coding contest on his own he'd still come second. 

    He wasn't talking about SpectateSwamp. He said SpectreSwamp.

    I agree Spectre might just win.



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    WHOO HOOO the only thing better than quoting the OP is quoting the OP when the OP is SpectateSwamp.

    That has to be the most useless quote ever made!

     

    Asshat, I mean sure I completely am against SS BUT... You do the exact same thing. You bash the OP, you bash SS, you bash me, you even bash people who agree with you. I don't see the difference between you and SS except that you seem to have an ability to code in VBscript.



  • @DaveK said:

    @pitchingchris said:

    Spectre swamp might win - because we all have too much other stuff to do.

     

    Dude, WTF?!  Seriously, if Swampy entered a coding contest on his own he'd still come second. 

     

    Inverse Chuck Norris facts? Call em Spectate Swamp facts? I bet Asshat would add me to that list, but hey if its funny im all for it.



  • @dlikhten said:

    You do the exact same thing.
     

    I don't mindlessly quote the OP.

    @dlikhten said:

    You bash the OP, you bash SS, you bash me, you even bash people who agree with you.

    Nope, of course, absolutely, nope. But what does this have to do with what you quoted?

    @dlikhten said:

    I don't see the difference between you and SS except that you seem to have an ability to code in VBscript.

    How does VBScript have anything to do with this, and how do you know that I know anything about it?

     

    Have you been drinking? This didn't make ANY sense at all... even less than normal for you... and that says a lot!



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    ...

     

    Thus my point is proven.



  • @dlikhten said:

    Thus my point is proven.
     

    That would imply you had/have/have ever had a point.



  • @SuperousOxide said:

    @bstorer said:
    You're equally likely to win this as you are to win, say, the Irish Derby.

    You mean this?

     

    Please do not sully Irish Girl's reputation by implying she'd have anything to do with SSDS.  I was thinking more like this:

    If a horse comes up lame, they shoot it.  What do they do when a programmer comes up lame? 



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

     @DaveK said:

    @pitchingchris said:

    Spectre swamp might win - because we all have too much other stuff to do.

     

    Dude, WTF?!  Seriously, if Swampy entered a coding contest on his own he'd still come second. 

    He wasn't talking about SpectateSwamp. He said SpectreSwamp.

    I agree Spectre might just win.

    Whoa, I'm flattered.
    BUT DON'T CALL ME SpectreSwamp!

    Anyway, hi SS, I missed you!



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    Apparently, the problem lies in you then. The joke was applied the correct way. You took it seriously. I cannot help you there. Sorry.
     

     

     Well that's exactly my point, that I took it seriously.  One skilled in the art of sarcasm does not have trouble getting the reader to take it as a joke.  If your comment was taken seriously, it is because you did not properly apply your sarcasm.  Therefore, you fail at sarcasm.



  • @Heron said:

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    Apparently, the problem lies in you then. The joke was applied the correct way. You took it seriously. I cannot help you there. Sorry.
     

     

     Well that's exactly my point, that I took it seriously.  One skilled in the art of sarcasm does not have trouble getting the reader to take it as a joke.  If your comment was taken seriously, it is because you did not properly apply your sarcasm.  Therefore, you fail at sarcasm.

     

    Is it about time to bring back the sarcasm tags?

    <sarcasm>

    SS is a great programmer!

    </sarcasm> 

    See? Makes it absolutely clear to everyone with a broken sarcasm detector.  No arguments about whether anyone was kidding or not.  And the joke remains intact. 

    <sarcasm>

    It is better than C++ grammer!

    </sarcasm> 



  • @Heron said:

    Well that's exactly my point, that I took it seriously.  One skilled in the art of sarcasm does not have trouble getting the reader to take it as a joke.  If your comment was taken seriously, it is because you did not properly apply your sarcasm.
     

    Oh get over it already. You obviously have your panties wound too tight. 

    Let it go.



  • @WeatherGod said:

    Is it about time to bring back the sarcasm tags?
     

    Did they ever go away?

    Heron is just upset because he has another little complex like Morbii, Lysis, dlikhten, and poopdeville have. 

    They see something from me, they take it serious and start flaming. It wouldn't matter if I put "It's a joke" in 72 point font... they still are going to take it serious and flame.

    Simple minds indeed...

     



  • @WeatherGod said:

    Is it about time to bring back the sarcasm tags?

    <sarcasm>

    SS is a great programmer!

    </sarcasm> 

    See? Makes it absolutely clear to everyone with a broken sarcasm detector.  No arguments about whether anyone was kidding or not.  And the joke remains intact. 

    <sarcasm>

    It is better than C++ grammer!

    </sarcasm> 

    Tags. Ur doing it wrong. This is the right way:

    DeskTopSearch — loved by newbies and pros alike!



  • Who pulled the plug on SSDS? Whooa? Whooa?

     

    They had some lame excuse citing: "as it is not a web-based application and therefore does not meet our definition of a Mashup."

    In checking their goals for this MashUp:

    (QUOTE)
    We believe that NetSquared’s role as convener of social-benefit innovators and the technical
    experts will help accelerate the conversations about "open data," "open standards," "data portability,"
    and encourage people to re-imagine collaborative possibilities.
    (END QUOTE)


    Swamp search is "THE" collaboration tool. There is no way us Swampies should be disqualified.

    NetSquared's emails were very helpful and encouraging a few days ago. Who put the pressure on? One of their Sponsors or
    a Search Giant or 2ah?

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    NetSquared's emails were very helpful and encouraging a few days ago. Who put the pressure on? One of their Sponsors or
    a Search Giant or 2ah?
     

    Or it could be that they only accept web applications... Oh wait, it is!



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    There is no way us Swampies should be disqualified.
     

    Only insane people and the Queen of England get to refer to themself in the plural, when they are in fact a single person.

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    NetSquared's emails were very helpful and encouraging a few days ago. Who put the pressure on? One of their Sponsors or
    a Search Giant or 2ah?

    <sarcasm> 

    I think it was "political plants", personally.  As I recall from your infamous Yellowhead speech of '93:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    They keep tellin' us there's 3 main parties.  3 main parties.  Who are they, who are they?  They're not the guy with the yellow head, that's for sure

    </sarcasm> 

    Seriously, stop blaming every failure on non-existent conspiracies.  That is lame and annoying. 

     

     

     



  • Exhibit A:

    To SpectateSwamp, disqualification is merely further proof that SSDS is too good to get by the Search Giants (who probably have spy cameras installed in the Swamp Shack).

    Is SS just the "Free Energy" conspiracy theorist of our IT world? Is that what this all boils down to?



  •  On a sadly related note:

    Imagine if this guy managed to get elected somewhere? 

    (Of course, those 14 "yes" votes are probably SpectateSwamp and his other 13 personalities...) 



  • @CodeSimian said:

     On a sadly related note:
     

    I have been saying for a long time that I believe it is something in the water in WhiteCourt.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    (QUOTE)
    We believe that NetSquared’s role as convener of social-benefit innovators and the technical
    experts will help accelerate the conversations about "open data," "open standards," "data portability,"
    and encourage people to re-imagine collaborative possibilities.
    (END QUOTE)
     

    This sounds remarkably like something SS would post.  Except without random periods, capitalization, and repetition of words. 



  • @bstorer said:

    This sounds remarkably like something SS would post.  Except without random periods, capitalization, and repetition of words. 
     

    Except all the "big" words are spelled correctly and used properly.  Also, without the incoherent rambling and half-baked conspiracy theories.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Swamp search is "THE" collaboration tool. There is no way us Swampies should be disqualified.

     

    I agree. We use eSSDS (the Enterprise Version) for all our collaborative needs. It's especially useful when five people have to edit the same line of code at the same time. Normally as you can imagine this is problematic but eSSDS made this collaboration seamless.

    At home I use rrSSDS and jSSDS (the rock and roll and jazz versions) for musical collaborations. Recently in a collaboration with a trombonist from Belarus I actually received his recorded track before he actually had a chance to record it! The space/time warp interface is amazing and saves time I never had to waste. 

    It is also likely to become a prominent co-authoring tool for such literary masterpieces as [url=http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/8133.aspx]The End Of The World[/url].

    The collaborative possibilities abound. SSDS should win by a landslide.

    By the way what is this sarcasm people refer to? Is this also a collaborative tool? I need to search for it ... if only I knew a good way to search for stuff. :-(



  • Insulting and belittling others is a symptom of a superiority complex ;P  I do have a slight superiority complex, but it's more fun to see it as "I just dislike stupid people".

    If you make it clear you're joking, we'll get it.  Better luck next time.

     

    Also, medialint, that's hilarious :) 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

     

    They had some lame excuse citing: "as it is not a web-based application and therefore does not meet our definition of a Mashup."

    In checking their goals for this MashUp:

    (QUOTE)
    We believe that NetSquared’s role as convener of social-benefit innovators and the technical
    experts will help accelerate the conversations about "open data," "open standards," "data portability,"
    and encourage people to re-imagine collaborative possibilities.
    (END QUOTE)


    Swamp search is "THE" collaboration tool. There is no way us Swampies should be disqualified.

    NetSquared's emails were very helpful and encouraging a few days ago. Who put the pressure on? One of their Sponsors or
    a Search Giant or 2ah?

     

     

    The question they're asking as a requirement: 

    Can your application run natively in a web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc) and be remotely accessable by users without the application installed or WITHOUT being installed? 

    i.e. can you visit a web page like per-se http://google.com/ and enter your search criteria without downloading a program? 



  • @CodeSimian said:

    @bstorer said:

    This sounds remarkably like something SS would post.  Except without random periods, capitalization, and repetition of words. 
     

    Except all the "big" words are spelled correctly and used properly.  Also, without the incoherent rambling and half-baked conspiracy theories.

     

    So, then, it's nothing like something SS would post?



  • @DigitalXeron said:

    The question they're asking as a requirement: 

    Can your application run natively in a web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc) and be remotely accessable by users without the application installed or WITHOUT being installed? 

    i.e. can you visit a web page like per-se http://google.com/ and enter your search criteria without downloading a program?

     

     No, but you can type CC at Prompt #2 and Jam it! Random Video. Scrolling Large Font text.  What more.  Does AnyOne need?



  • Re: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp spins on his thumb?

    Lol!  I checked out the http://www.netsquared.org/mashup site while at work this morn and sure enough, there was Spectates submission in the projects list.  Now it's gone...  could it be that the moderators reviewed his 'work' and realized how good it was, and immediately chose their winner?

    Nah, it's more likely they removed it because it violated their most basic rule - it had to be a WEB BASED TOOL.  Sigh.  I guess I too have given up on trying to help the swamp thing, MasterPlan, can you give me guidance on troll fishing?





  • The question they're asking as a requirement: 

    Can your application run natively in a web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc) and be remotely accessable by users without the application installed or WITHOUT being installed? 

    i.e. can you visit a web page like per-se http://google.com/ and enter your search criteria without downloading a program?

     

    Are you so sure that you want to encourage him to make a browser-based SSDS?



  •  When I saw the thread title I thought it ws someone making fun of SS... imagine my surprise when I saw it was the swampling himself, and that he thanked the forum for his demo videos being ready.

     

    The pool-related post had me in stitches! 



  • @Charles Capps said:

     

    Are you so sure that you want to encourage him to make a browser-based SSDS?

     

    He can try...I hope he finds better hosting than his hometown's site - http://www.whitecourtweb.com/:

    @http://www.whitecourtweb.com/ said:

    <center>This Account Has Been Suspended</center>

     Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.</p><p></blockquote>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>


  • I normally try to avoid such posts, but...

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    NetSquared's emails were very helpful and encouraging a few days ago. Who put the pressure on?

    You, sir, are an idiot.

    • SSDS has zero to do with collaboration
    • Mashup = web.  SSDS != web.   ergo: SSDS != Mashup.
    • Why are your failures always somebody else's fault?

    You are a bad programmer, with bad ideas, who is too foolish to even recognize it.   You give programmers a bad name, you give canadians a bad name, you give people with beards a bad name.

    I won't even say "That doesn't even make sense you retard" because people with developmental disabilities usually know better than you.

    Here's a quarter, call your mother and tell her what a disappointment you are.

    -cw  



  • Hey, I went for a walk this morning and found a nice shiny stone.

    I like my shiny stone - it's great.

    So, like, I saw this online competition for best "mashup" and entered my stone as it is bound to win, what with it being so shiny and cool.

    Hang on, they say they have rejected my entry because it is not a "web application". WTF?!? Someone got to them!!!111one The gubberment are behind this i can tell. they always. try two stop anything kool. well ya cant stop me. im adding an extra. layer of tinfoil to my. hat. there, i am now conspiricy proof.. 



  • @CodeWhisperer said:

    • SSDS has zero to do with collaboration
    Nonsense!  Name another time that Channel9, TDWTF, and a video editing site all agreed on anything?

    • Mashup = web.  SSDS != web.   ergo: SSDS != Mashup.
    Without the web, SS would be stuck in his creepy shack, and the rest of us wouldn't now know that if there is a God, He is cruel and unmerciful.

    • Why are your failures always somebody else's fault?

    I think you answered your own question:

    You, sir, are an idiot.

    By the way, Digg users feel free to get this to the main page.



  • $100,000 MashUp is a Farce

    @Charles Capps said:

    Are you so sure that you want to encourage him to make a browser-based SSDS?

    That was my stated intentions, when sharing the source code. To get assistance in porting Swamp Search to the Net, Linux and the Mac.

    May 27 and 28 will be a nice time to visit my old San Francisco friends. And do a MashUp of my own.

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    To get assistance in porting Swamp Search to the Net, Linux and the Mac.

    While you're at it, would you please port the rest of the interweb to Linux and Mac, too?



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    May 27 and 28 will be a nice time to visit my old San Francisco friends. And do a MashUp of my own.
     

    I think he's trying to tell us he and some fellow nutjobs are going to blow something up. 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    To get assistance in porting Swamp Search to the Net, Linux and the Mac.

    ... And do a MashUp of my own.

     

    OK, as a warm up I have two simple challenges.  They shouldn't take more than a minute each for a viable player in the "Mashup Challenge" right?

    1) Write a web app to ask the user's name and then display it reversed.

    2) Write any sort of program (command-line, GUI) to do the same thing that will run on a stock Mac OS X or Ubuntu system.

    You can use any language you want to do the two tasks: PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, C, whatever... as long as it builds and runs. 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    That was my stated intentions, when sharing the source code. To get assistance in porting Swamp Search to the Net, Linux and the Mac.

    May 27 and 28 will be a nice time to visit my old San Francisco friends. And do a MashUp of my own.

    But wouldn't that then make SSDS an evil web search tool?



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    That was my stated intentions, when sharing the source code. To get assistance in porting Swamp Search to the Net, Linux and the Mac.

    Wait, wait, wait.

    Are you confusing .NET (that's DOT-net, a bunch of programming APIs written by Microsoft) with the Internet?

    BAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....

    Besides which, you said internet search was evil.



  • Just saw this headline on Ars.  Started reading it and cracked up; immediately had to catch up on this thread!

    <FONT color=#000000>SSDs in 2008: fast speeds (200MB/sec) over price cuts</FONT>

    In 2008, SSDs won't come down in price too much, as manufacturers focus on cranking the speed limits and capacities as high as possible. This year's forthcoming models will raise the bar substantially. Handy chart comparing SSDs and traditional hard disks inside.

    March 14, 2008 - 07:44AM CT - by <FONT color=#9d0404>Joel Hruska</FONT>



  • @CodeWhisperer said:

    Mashup = web.  SSDS != web.   ergo: SSDS != Mashup.
    Spectate comes from VB background, so you probably want to use <> instead of != for him to understand you. :)



  • @waco.huber said:

    Just saw this headline on Ars.  Started reading it and cracked up; immediately had to catch up on this thread!

    <font color="#000000">SSDs in 2008: fast speeds (200MB/sec) over price cuts</font>

    In 2008, SSDs won't come down in price too much, as manufacturers focus on cranking the speed limits and capacities as high as possible. This year's forthcoming models will raise the bar substantially. Handy chart comparing SSDs and traditional hard disks inside.

    March 14, 2008 - 07:44AM CT - by <font color="#9d0404">Joel Hruska</font>

     

    OH crap Spectate! They stole your product name! This must be the next leg in the conspiracy!

     

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Crburgess%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Crburgess%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Crburgess%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"><style> </style>

    Note to Heron: This is a joke. I do not actually think there is a conspiracy against SS.<o:p></o:p>


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