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- From: jwindley%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Jay Windley)
- Subject: Re: SigGraph, Chicago, and Unions
- Date: 14 Aug 92 10:53:49 MDT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.105349.23048@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Keywords: Coffee Break!
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- References: <1992Aug14.015500.25529@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <BsyK9q.18s.2@cs.cmu.edu>
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- claude+@cs.cmu.edu (William Welch) writes:
- >Though generally less polite. My favorite story involves a paper
- >session which began to run overtime, and would thus have impacted a
- >scheduled AV coffee-break. Supposedly, the crew began flashing a
- >message on the speaker's monitor: "Stop Talking".
-
- During the papers I sat where I could see the AV control panels,
- including the speaker's monitor. Several speakers went over their
- allotted time, including the keynote speaker. The first message to
- flash on the screen was (in all cases which I personally saw) "You
- have X minutes left," where X was decremented from 5 to 1. The next
- message was "Your time is up," which remained displayed for five or so
- minutes, then the infamous "Stop" message. This never occurred until
- the speaker had gone at least ten minutes overtime, and never without
- having had previous warning.
-
- I think the coffee break story is a bunch of hooey. How do you know
- that the messages weren't being displayed at the request of the
- session moderator? How do you know that the speaker involved hadn't
- simply ignored the previous polite requests to wrap it up?
-
- I only bring this up because unsubstantiated stories like this one
- have the tendency to be spread around and cause undue embarrassment
- and difficulty for those involved. Apologies if I have offended.
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- Jay Windley | jwindley@asylum.cs.utah.edu
- Department of Computer Science +---------------------------------------
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City | "Okay, NOW I'm worried." -- Batman
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