Stop Microsoft
All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: blackphiber on 15 December 2003, 00:06
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NASA, the board argued, had become too reliant on presenting complex information via PowerPoint, instead of by means of traditional ink-and-paper technical reports. When NASA engineers assessed possible wing damage during the mission, they presented the findings in a confusing PowerPoint slide -- so crammed with nested bullet points and irregular short forms that it was nearly impossible to untangle. ''It is easy to understand how a senior manager might read this PowerPoint slide and not realize that it addresses a life-threatening situation,'' the board sternly noted.
more at New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/magazine/14POWER.html?ex=1071982800&en=799ad449b398c2d7&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE)
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I can't help it, but it is funny even though it is very serious. :D
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Using powerpoint is just dumb!!
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YAY FOR FULLSCREEN ANIMATED GIFS
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Originally posted by blackphiber:
more at New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/magazine/14POWER.html?ex=1071982800&en=799ad449b398c2d7&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE)
Yes of course PP makes you dumb. The golden rule is: no more than 4 slides for a one hour lecture. People just tend to look at slides and forget to listen to you. Now, about powerpoint you should read Edward Tufte's little book about it, it's a beauty. It's at:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books pp (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books pp)
And while you're at it take a look at
web page (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000931)
The PP presentation of the Gettysburg Adress is a must read. PP is really bad and makes you dumb, o yes. It's an insult to our intelligence
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Yea your right about the slides as a distraction, my school use them and you cant pay attention because the teachers are so pro as to use 4345325345 animations per slide.
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that's so 1337