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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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:Maybe a good thing? by gtrubetskoy · 2005-03-30 05:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.
Spoken like a true PHB!