[windows2000] Fwd: Shark Tank: Up Against The Wall
- From: "Andrew Shriner" <ashriner@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:18:46 -0400
You know, I'm not one to forward messages like this to many people, but
this one was too good to pass up.
Drew
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Received per ComputerWorld's Shark Tank
Shark Tank: Up against the wall
This state legislative committee is experimenting with transforming
the
lawmaking process from paper to paperless, says a pilot fish at the
scene.
"As part of that effort, testimony of conferees is accepted in digital
form and displayed for the committee audience on a large-screen
projection unit, using a blank wall as the screen," fish reports.
The projection unit can be switched with the click of a remote to
display the screen of the committee chairman's laptop or the laptops
of
the staff people supporting the committee.
And when members of the committee want to speak, they can do so by
sending an instant message to the chairman's laptop.
"One day the vice chairman is presiding over the hearing," says fish.
"The chairman has taken a seat on the back row of the committee room.
A
conferee is re-reading testimony that was prefiled and is droning on
and on in a voice that is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
"After a while, the presiding vice chair sends an instant message to
the chairman asking, 'Shall I cut this old bag off?' -- forgetting
that
his screen is the one currently displaying upon the wall.
"People in the audience start gagging, trying not to laugh. Some get
up
and leave the room to howl in the hallway. Legislators start squirming
in their seats. The conferee doesn't see what is happening and drones
on."
One quick-thinking legislator dashes off an instant message to the
vice
chair that reads, "Bob, you're on the wall."
Thinking his colleague is just confirming his assessment of the
testimony, the vice chair writes back, "Yeah, ain't this the pits?"
"No," the other legislator types, "I mean your computer is projecting
onto the wall."
"Needless to say, the projection unit was quickly switched to another
laptop," fish says.
"And the conferee never knew what transpired."
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