Re: COMMON -Thoughts

>Vincent (et al),
>
>In a message dated 97-04-19 03:16:16 EDT, you write:
>
>> >Heck, bring your own tape recorder....
>>  >
>>
>>  Too bad.  A lot of trade shows have a commercial service tape their
>>  seminars.  You get a lot more out of the actual speaker than just
>reviewing
>>  their Powerpoint slides from the CD-ROM.  It would be nice of COMMON did
>>  the same.
>>
>>  It also makes some long commutes to client sites a little more useful, at
>>  least for me.
>
>Let me get this straight.  The same group of people that griped about COMMON
>raising their rates a year or so ago is now wanting everything VIDEOTAPED?
> Can you imagine the effort, personnel, money, and equipment involved in
>taping 20-30 presentations every hour for five days?!?  I know that there are
>several repeat sessions and some that run for more than an hour, but come on
>folks!
> <etc., etc.>

now, now Dean.  I'm very willing to PAY for the tapes (I do this with other
conferences) and certainly would not want attendees subsidizing the same.

A lot of trade shows do sell audio tapes of sessions, at approx $12 @.  I'm
sure this more than covers the costs and provides them a handsome profit as
well.  The tapes are usually un-edited.  Making them is just a matter of
feeding the microphone audio into a recorder - not much more work than is
already done in the session.

Even for this price, I find these tapes well worth it.  I do sometimes have
to drive long distances to customer sites (2-3 hours to San Diego) & given
a choice of Howard Stern or an audio tape of some technical talk, I'm
afraid Howard Stern often loses.


Sorry Howard.  I didn't see your movie either.


- VL

******************************************************************************
*                   Vincent LeVeque                 * Personal E-Mail Account*
*      Center for Information Security Technology   * Opinions do not reflect*
*        Science Applications International Inc.    * SAIC's position        *
*               vleveque@earthlink.net              *                        *
*            Ham Radio PBBS: KF6FLJ@N6YN            *                        *
****************************************************************************
**


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* This is the Midrange System Mailing List!  To submit a new message,   *
* send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com".  To unsubscribe from     *
* this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com and specify            *
* 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message.  Questions      *
* should be directed to the list owner / operator: david@midrange.com   *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *