gripe about Washington Usenix conference
dave at onfcanim.UUCP
dave at onfcanim.UUCP
Tue Mar 10 15:06:41 AEST 1987
>I also prefer the speaker be a the foil projector so s/he can point to
>something on the foil with a pencil. The flashlight arrow that a speaker
>at the lecturn has to use is harder to see, and distracting because it
>jiggles around on the screen because it is hard to hold the flashlight
>steady.
At the Toronto USENIX, the lecturn was equipped with a pointer that
used a helium-neon laser instead of a projected white-light arrow. Its
visibility was far better than the conventional pointer; the intense
red spot would be hard to miss. I assume they rented the pointer from
somewhere; it was clearly designed for just such a use and was not a
lab laser.
That was a few years ago now, and I'm surprised I've never seen a laser
pointer at a conference since then, given how well it worked.
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