First impressions

Mike Balenger msb at ho5cad.att.com
Thu Jul 6 18:21:32 AEST 1989


In article <15901 at vail.ICO.ISC.COM> rcd at 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.


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