As the IT Guy at one of the convention centers (yes, the guy who takes care of that thinly spread T-1), I have to speak up on this one.
Yes, costs are high for "little things." But that's mostly because of a consistent lack of planning by the exhibitors. You have no idea how much labor is involved in running a chair or a powerstrip or whatever to the 100s of people who forgot to preorder anything. That costs money. And I have a hell of a lot better things to do than tape down CAT-5 cables at the last minute and jerry-rig things because I had built subnets and configured switches days before to handle the predicted load, only to have 50 or 60 booths pop up needs at the last minute.
Complaining about power? A tech convention requires a huge load. And very few participants bother to order in advance (can I get 2 20 amp circuits at 110 and a 30 amp at 220 in about 5 minutes? Thanks). So, that $25 for access to power basically covers facility labor running around trying to take care of things that should have been done days in advance, not minutes or hours.
I'm at a non-union facility, though, so feel free to plug in your own popcorn machine.
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That's because First Class is expensive, and in America, rich people can't be bad.
Of course Iraq is ripe for linux -- the version Haliburton is in the process of patenting.
As the IT Guy at one of the convention centers (yes, the guy who takes care of that thinly spread T-1), I have to speak up on this one.
Yes, costs are high for "little things." But that's mostly because of a consistent lack of planning by the exhibitors. You have no idea how much labor is involved in running a chair or a powerstrip or whatever to the 100s of people who forgot to preorder anything. That costs money. And I have a hell of a lot better things to do than tape down CAT-5 cables at the last minute and jerry-rig things because I had built subnets and configured switches days before to handle the predicted load, only to have 50 or 60 booths pop up needs at the last minute.
Complaining about power? A tech convention requires a huge load. And very few participants bother to order in advance (can I get 2 20 amp circuits at 110 and a 30 amp at 220 in about 5 minutes? Thanks). So, that $25 for access to power basically covers facility labor running around trying to take care of things that should have been done days in advance, not minutes or hours.
I'm at a non-union facility, though, so feel free to plug in your own popcorn machine.