Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:52:05 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Joey Garcia <bear@unix.homeip.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone going to Comdex next week? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011111163454.042359d0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011110020404.A49530@mooseriver.com> References: <006e01c169cc$bd2a5ec0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011109155543.G15209-100000@we-24-126-55-112.we.mediaone.net> <006e01c169cc$bd2a5ec0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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At 03:04 AM 11/10/2001, Josef Grosch wrote: >Might be fun some other year if someone else was footing the tab, the price >of hotel rooms and everything else doubles for Comdex, Though it's nowhere as high as it was in the show's heyday. COMDEX peaked about 4-5 years ago and has been shrinking, making it more manageable. There are enough empty rooms that one can get a good deal. >but this year would >be no fun. The desperation is going to ubiquitous this year. It would have been even without the 9-11 disaster, but now that the show is searching everyone who enters and is not allowing bags onto the show floor, it will be quite inconvenient. Laptop bags are included in the ban, though not laptops themselves. (They were thinking of bananing laptops, but would have faced a mass rebellion of attendees AND exibitors if they'd gone through with it.) Interestingly, this just happens to be the year when Microsoft is promoting tablet PCs (which are much easier to carry without a case than laptops -- unless the laptop happens to be a Panasonic Toughbook, which has a handle.) Given that Microsoft is COMDEX's biggest tenant, I wonder if there is a connection here. I am not sure why the COMDEX organizers seem to believe that someone might bomb the convention.... It's unlikely that the terrorists would know or care what COMDEX is. And, of course, if a determined terrorist really did want to bomb COMDEX, he could easily lob a bomb at the Convention Center from the OUTSIDE and do plenty of damage. >Even microsoft >supplied hookers and whiskey will not brighten the mood. Too much of a >downer this year. I haven't heard of Microsoft providing hookers at COMDEX, but they did one year offer to marry people at their expense. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, who was promoting her book "Sex for Dummies," was at the event. >If I want to get that depressed and not spend the money >I'll sit at home and listen to the Joy Division. I'm going to be harrowing COMDEX hell this year (as I have every year since 1985).... Wish me luck. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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