Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ucsd!ames!hc!siegel From: siegel@hc.DSPO.GOV (josh Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Impressions of Siggraph 88 (booth scum) Message-ID: <14349@hc.DSPO.GOV> Date: 7 Aug 88 18:14:32 GMT References: <1079@ucsd.EDU> Reply-To: siegel@hc.dspo.gov.UUCP (Josh siegel) Organization: Group MEE-10, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Lines: 41 In article <1079@ucsd.EDU> brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor) writes: >It was also nice to see some of the graduates of our lab demoing their >company's software that they'd helped write. Too many three-piece suits >though - I'd rather talk to the technical people than the sales people - >although I have to admit that the sales personnel were much better >informed this year than in previous shows. My guess is that it's >finally struck home to many manufacturers that used-car-salesman don't >make good computer salesman. There seemed to be many fewer suits >blowing smoke (both figurative and tobacco) this year than last. I wanna comment on those three-piece suits... At the Pixel booth, all of the development people were there in three-piece suits. The high muckity mucks at AT&T decided that everybody had to wear a suit. They also stole all the development machines from the development lab (all of the machines that have half working boards etc). This meant that there were no machines to work on... this meant we all got to go to SIGGRAPH and be booth scum... As the head of third party software said, "Josh, your booth scum now... your lower then whale shit... Your own mother would spit in your face... welcome..." They also had sales people there... [I don't work for AT&T... I work for another company (part time) who works very closely with the development team. As a result, I get sucked into all of the three piece suit stuff...] > > Brian Kantor UCSD Computer Graphics Lab > c/o B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 > brian@ucsd.edu -- Josh Siegel (siegel@hc.dspo.gov) I like using a C-47A "puff dragon" to go shooting beer cans with.