More than 100 people sit on plastic chairs facing forwards while latecomers lean against the back wall.
A smattering of Periscope streams have tried to work around that by performing to-camera monologues; but unlike YouTube, or even Vine, where that format is hugely popular, in a live feed, users stumble over the question of what to do with latecomers.
"They will be latecomers," he predicted.
IBMers chafed at Chinese practices such as mandatory exercise breaks and public shaming of latecomers to meetings.
Like airlines or hotels, theatres could use variable prices to price discriminate, charging more to patrons who book early to make sure they get a seat and less to latecomers who might only be swayed by a cut-rate ticket price.
Latecomers to industrialisation can follow the path their forerunners broke before them and perhaps skip some steps along the way.
THE lecture theatre at the Beijing Institute of Technology is full to overflowing, obliging unfortunate latecomers to hover by the nearby lavatories.
As latecomers, poorer countries do not need to reinvent the wheel or the computer, but merely to open their economies to ideas from the rich world.The key question, therefore, is how fast technology diffuses across borders to poorer economies, and the answer is cheerful.
And while latecomers like India have been playing catch-up, America's service-sector exports have not exactly done badly: they more than doubled in value between 1999 and 2008, when the US had a big surplus in its commercial-services trade.
That might delay the first intake of four or five entrants; it also risks excluding latecomers altogether, because an institutional fudge that copes with a Union of, say, 19 may not work for one of 25.So the forthcoming enlargement talks may well be hellish.
Good schemes will do more than funnel money from latecomers to early takers, allowing the foremost to prosper at the expense of the hindmost.
