5 Times An 'Unhappy Person' Dared To Use The Word 'Boring' At CES 2015 1: This Year, 69 Per Cent Of CES Attendees Protested Against Dull Speakers With Their Actual Eyelids at #CES #CES2015 when a poor moderator & a guest speaker are boring & don't get what the audience wants2hear you get pic.twitter.com/JqZPLydUWd — Bat-Ami Gordin (@zongrik) January 7, 2015 Sleepy follow! 2: 34 Per Cent …
I must confess, I stopped attending such shows in the late 90s. Probably not a cooincidence that that is when affordable home internet arrived in my area of the world - I simply found that I could get clearer, fluff-flitered information of the company web sites* than on the show floor.
* this was back when the big tech companies used their web sites for providing product /information/, not just eyeball spam.
I was at CES along with a colleague - we summed it up as "blah, blah, blah, smart, blah, blah, internet, blah, blah, blah, wearable, blah, blah, blah, blah, connected"
Oh, and the "booth babes" have been replaced by impossibly fit women jogging on treadmills with sport bras and very tight pants....
Having occasionally noticed a woman runner wearing a t shirt and shorts blasting past the lycra-clad, arm computer wearing, water bottle with handle carrying expensively trainered "runners" on the canal towpath (and laughing at them), I don't think that this kit is mainly being sold to the super-fit. It's aspirational, like buying an Audi makes you a racing driver.
re: 'laughing at them'
why? They're out, and beating everyone who can't be bothered or are 'too busy'
Being shit at something is the first step to being not completely shit at something.
I tried to get into running with shorts/tshirt/regular trainers. After my first few 5k Parkruns, injured my foot, had sore nipples due to chafing (not fun). I couldn't run for 6 weeks. Did I give up? No.
Bought some proper running trainers (got them fitted properly), and a techcical running shirt. been running 5ks most saturdays for 2 years.
but does "CES" stand for "Consumer Electronics Show"? Does it refer to an event in Las Vegas?
I am not in the consumer electronics industry, and it would be nice if the article at least bothered to state what the fuck it's supposed to be about. I find this sort of careless editing occurring more and more often in the last year or so.
> Do you live in a cave?
No. I do not live glued to a telly either, nor have, as already pointed out, a professional attachment or interest in the consumer electronics industry, or the American trade shows industry for that matter.
It would be a simple matter, not to mention good practice, for a journo or editor to clarify the meaning of any acronyms the first time they are used, along with a short sentence explaining the nature of the subject if there is a remote chance that it might not be recognised by the readership--something that I particularly appreciate in The Economist, for example.
it would be nice if the article at least bothered to state what the fuck it's supposed to be about
Yes, why doesn't everyone take a paragraph to explain their jokes first, for the benefit of anonymous complainers? That's sure to make everything more enjoyable for everyone.
(Ascribing it to "careless editing" was pretty funny, though. Ah, entitlement.)
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