Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!ames!pacbell!att!cbnewsh!ho5cad!msb From: msb@ho5cad.att.com (Mike Balenger) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: First impressions Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 89 08:21:32 GMT References: <444@warlock.UUCP> <11753@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <15901@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> Sender: msb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM Reply-To: msb@ho5cad.att.com (Mike Balenger) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 30 In-reply-to: rcd@ico.ISC.COM's message of 6 Jul 89 06:31:09 GMT In article <15901@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes: > - When you're doing that one last proofreading on Friday afternoon > before you go to the conference, and you find that you wrote > "Denise Ritchie", you can run off a new overhead yourself in a > couple of minutes with nobody else's help. > - When you're sitting in the hotel room going over the talk the night > before, and you discover that LR(k) somehow became LURK, you can > patch over it with a marker. These aren't arguments AGAINST overhead projectors. They're arguments FOR practicing (perfecting) your talk before the last minute. A dry run to your own organization (i.e. ~5-30 folks in audience) will pick out the typos, and allow you to present a better talk to Usenix (~300 folks in audience). You owe an audience that size a good talk -- one that has been presented (or practiced) AT LEAST ONCE previously. Come on. The arguments here have been that the talks weren't interesting enough. Much of this is due to PRESENTATION, not CONTENT. Don't advocate a last minute effort for the talks. Those kinds of talks are best left at home. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael S. Balenger (201) 949-8789 AT&T Bell Labs Room 1L-405 msb@ho5cad.att.com Crawfords Corner Road att!ho5cad!msb Holmdel, NJ 07733