Holy nerd, Batman!

The start of the JavaOne conference was officially today and we began by hearing from John Gage. Now maybe I have just been around "normal" humans for too long or I have been working too hard to interact with humanity, but my goodness this guy is a nerd! He went on to show us the nerd stuff they have installed at this conference. There are meters for all the power lines. They run 3-phase 480V power and are drawing around 600 amps. We get to see real-time as that changes by bringing up lights and putting them down. They have CO2 sensors throughout the Moscone center to measure how much carbon dioxide is in each room to see if there are too many peple. Each badge for the attendees uses RFID technology and they measure when you walk in to a room and when you walk out of the room to see if a number of attendees are leavng during a presentation because hte presenter is boring. They also are measuring the temperature of each room at the Moscone center to see the amount of people in each room. They also have a cloud of each class to see which is the most attended and which the people all stayed for the whole presentation in. Man, this guy is a geek! We saw the spike in CO2 emissions when he blew into the sensor!