because they can be Because they have to be, due to simple supply/demand. I/O sold out in 20 minutes and some suspect that was even throttled. It's a shame,

because they can be Because they have to be, due to simple supply/demand. I/O sold out in 20 minutes and some suspect that was even throttled. It's a shame, as the author says, because it tilts attendance in favor of either veterans with deep pockets, or employees of corporations. Good of Google to offer I/O to students at discounted rates; bad of them for not following through with filtering the attendance down to coders: http://googlecode.blogspot.de/2011/11/google-io-2012-extended-to-three-days.html http://googlecode.blogspot.de/2011/11/google-io-2012-extende...