| Roland Hutchinson 2007-06-20, 1:14 am |
| Eugene Miya wrote:
> In article <5ddmf7F3415vrU2@mid.individual.net>,
> Roland Hutchinson <my.spamtrap@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Don't be in awe too long.
I'm not that much in awe.
> It's useful to track flash drive price at Fry's.
I miss having a Fry's retail store nearby. The nearest one appears to be a
tad over 700 miles from here.
> They also sometimes limit purchases to 1 per customer (another useful
> metric). Before these devices it was Photon lights, teeshirts (of course,
> and they will still be collectors items; I'm doing a run of 3 dozen
> shortly), laser pointers ($<6 for 1), and for a little more work
> (competitive contests, or multi booth vendor visits) small hand held TVs,
> iPods (of course), Walkmen (ancient), and then the bigger ticket items
> from things like drawings (but you really have to interest geeks).
> O'Reilly does good book giveaways but the thing to watch for with Tim
> are his slew of new tech talent meetings like Foo Camp and Makerfaire.
> And more.
Oh, there is indeed swag and then there is swag:
My current -- well, six-year-old but still current -- Linux laptop is an IBM
Thinkpad that was one of six raffled off by IBM at LinuxWorld Expo the year
that they announced their billion-dollar committment to Linux. It was
Microsoft-free out of the box, too (came with <spit>Caldera</spit> eDesktop
2.something preinstalled; now happily running the latest and greatest
Ubuntu).
I don't go to out-of-town-tech events much (LinuxWorld Expo used to be
local, but it's absquatulated to Boston), so I think that's probably far
and away the best swag I'm likely to see for a while.
--
Roland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food.
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