COMDEX Cancelled Again

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 30, 2005 @05:11AM from the not-a-huge-surprise dept.

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.

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How fitting by -kertrats- · 2005-03-30 05:12 · Score: 3, Funny

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.

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I for one by overshoot · 2005-03-30 05:12 · Score: 3, Funny

wish to welcome our new CES overlords.

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Oh well by jam244 · 2005-03-30 05:13 · Score: 3, Funny

See you in 2006
Guess I'll miss out on Vegas this year too! by drewzhrodague · 2005-03-30 05:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Jeez, even as an excuse to go to Las Vegas, and it's CANCELLED AGAIN! Bastards!

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Strange viruses by bazio · 2005-03-30 05:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Bah, who needs COMDEX to get strange strains of viruses? I'll get mine over the Internet, thank you very much!

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Eh... by The-Bus · 2005-03-30 05:15 · Score: 4, Funny

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!"

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1. Re:Eh... by irix · 2005-03-30 06:20 · Score: 3, Funny
  
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"Cancel" is such an ugly word by menace3society · 2005-03-30 05:17 · Score: 3, Funny

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.
Tradeshows just aren't the same by Fox_1 · 2005-03-30 05:22 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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1. Re:Tradeshows just aren't the same by kurosawdust · 2005-03-30 05:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I never won a car or PDA, but I haven't bought a pen in 6 years.
  Pfft. Rookie. I took all my promotional schwag and lived in the wilderness for two years armed with only my ruler, LED flashlight, tape measure, solar calculator, collapsable water bottle, twenty t-shirts to use as a tent, one hundred pens for tent stakes, a stress ball, and fifty business-card-sized CDs that I used as shriuken to kill animals for food.
  Needless to say I came back with a rockin beard and a newfound appreciation for being able to take a dump in a recipticle made especially for that purpose.
Re:Why? by eviloverlordx · 2005-03-30 05:23 · Score: 5, Funny

They were replaced by a small shell script.

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Re:Las Vegas hated Comdex anyway by iggymanz · 2005-03-30 05:50 · Score: 3, Funny

you'll be happy to know that to help this situation next year COMDEX will also not be held, but in another city