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COMDEX Cancelled Again
An anonymous reader noted that COMDEX has been cancelled for the second year in a row. And meanwhile, thousands of IT professionals rejoice that they won't be again exposed to strange strains of viruses that their immune system can't handle.
Not to be too cliche, but how fitting that I got the 'Nothing for you to see here' line several times trying to see this story.
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
wish to welcome our new CES overlords.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
See you in 2006
Comdex is DYING.
Jeez, even as an excuse to go to Las Vegas, and it's CANCELLED AGAIN! Bastards!
Zhrodague.net - I do projects and stuff too.
Bah, who needs COMDEX to get strange strains of viruses? I'll get mine over the Internet, thank you very much!
Set the bar high, then bring a tall ladder.
So what's the point? Is it coming back? Is this going to be a new meme? "Duke Nukem for Longhorn SE to come out at Comdex, now powered by cold fusion... in Japan!"
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
The article about this that I read said that, since going to different ownership in the 90s, COMDEX has gotten smaller and more tightly focused on IT. So don't look at it as being canceled, rather, it's just the natural result of its evolution--becoming the absolute smallest and topic-focused convention it could possibly be.
when adultdex was next door/down the street?
vodka, straight up, thank you!
When will they just admit defeat?
-Randy
COMDEX Bangalore !!!
not since the bubble, man the things that would go on at those IT trade shows. I went to a wireless one in New Orleans that just 'happened' to be scheduled in the middle of Mardi Gras...damn, talk about viruses
Oh for the world of stock options and big promotional booths for products that didn't exist then and still don't now. To booth babes and bunnys, T-shirts and ice cream. I never won a car or PDA, but I haven't bought a pen in 6 years.
The rock, the vulture, and the chain
They were replaced by a small shell script.
'Loose' is when your pants are three sizes too big. 'Lose' is when you misuse 'loose'.
Las vegas, hookers, aids: HIV
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, the COM(RA)DEX will cancel YOU!
. . . Isn't that there isn't a need, but that they weren't pushing the hookers and booze angle.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Driver? I don't even know her!
~~rimshot~~
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Comdex becomes irrelevant?
10..9..8..7..6..
Too late, it already is.
IANAL, but I've seen actors play them on TV
I want my IT people to have grounding in the entire computer field, but to be very specific to their field in detail. I want my network security people to eat and sleep network security and my hardware people to dream of nothing but hardware.
Network Sec. Guy dream: ZzzzZZzzzZZZ PORN ZzZZZzz
Hardware Guy dream: ZzzzZZZzzZZ P0rN ZzzZZZZz
you'll be happy to know that to help this situation next year COMDEX will also not be held, but in another city
How did you get in here?
Somebody call Security! Take that man's geek credentials and escort him to the door!
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The vending machines back in college were ... somewhat unreliable. They had signs at one point that read "50 cents a play! You might win a soda!".
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