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Article #1017Re: a thought for speakers
From: Barry Shein
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 19:06
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 19:06
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I have a better idea, we can just have designated questions! We'll
design several catagories and have people with loud voices volunteer
to ask them at each talk:
1. Deep, thoughtful question:
So, tell me _______ (first name preferable to appear very
personal and familiar), where do you plan to go with all this?
2. Embarrassing, put-em-on-the-spot question:
Didn't I just read a very similar paper in a recent
ACM, or maybe it was IEEE, journal? How familiar are
you with the literature in this field anyhow?
3. Broad, pointless but important philosophical question:
Would you really consider this to be in the spirit of Unix?
4. Who cares question:
Could you tell us who funded this work?
5. Everyone cares question:
Could you tell us when we can expect to see this in
a commercial product?
6. Universal questions:
Is it my turn? Is this microphone on? Can everyone hear
me?
Sorry, that's all we have time for, thank you for coming.
--
-Barry Shein
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: a thought for speakers Message-ID: <BZS.91May31140615@world.std.com> Date: 31 May 91 19:06:15 GMT References: <1991May28.183003.18759@zoo.toronto.edu> <3492@muffin.cme.nist.gov> <1991May29.150709.15363@dg-rtp.dg.com> <82848@bu.edu> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Followup-To: comp.org.usenix Organization: The World Lines: 41 In-Reply-To: tower@buitc.bu.edu's message of 31 May 91 14: 49:25 GMT