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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!eye!erich
- From: erich@eye.com (Eric Haines)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: The Best of SIGGRAPH 1992
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.151215.29814@eye.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:12:14 GMT
- Summary: or the worst...
- Sender: erich@eye.com (Eric Haines)
- References: <1846@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1992Aug11.112650.3032@cgrg.ohio-state.edu> <1992Aug11.170255.14445@nas.nasa.gov>
- Organization: 3D/EYE, Inc. Ithaca, NY
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- In article <1992Aug11.170255.14445@nas.nasa.gov> uselton@wk207.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel P. Uselton) writes:
-
- [some exceedingly good points about the Electronic Message System...]
-
- >Most importantly,
- >someone (everyone?) forgot the first rule of replacing an existing
- >system with an automated version.... leave the old system in place
- >'til the bugs are out of the new.
-
- This is usually the first line in the first chapter of those "how to
- computerize your office" books, and I was amazed that it wasn't done at
- SIGGRAPH.
-
- In hopes of improving the system for next year, here's my 1.722 cents (in 1980
- inflation adjusted pennies): One of the great advantages of email is that you
- can send copies of a single note to many people, but this feature was not
- available on the SIGGRAPH system. I wanted to arrange a lunch meeting, but
- cut down on invites after realizing I'd have to type in the same thing
- repeatedly (in the past, I could make copies of a paper message I'd want to
- send by photocopying them or copying them by hand while waiting for the bus).
-
- A minor beef was that before SIGGRAPH I had arranged to meet someone at the
- message board, and since there were now two of them it meant riding the
- escalators up and down between them a fair bit.
-
-
- Other than the message system, the crowded papers reception, and the hike
- between the papers/panels and the exhibitions (and these last two couldn't be
- helped), I thought this SIGGRAPH was the best planned and most organized I've
- seen yet. Also, Chicago beats Las Vegas any time (my apologies to all
- cigar-smoking, gold-pinky-ring-wearing computer graphics programmers out
- there who disagree (both of you)).
-
- Eric Haines
-