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Edgy DC Aug 30 2005 11:03 AM

Ruth Marcus gives the application a much-deserved killer indictment on the opinion page of today's Washington Post.

Willets Point Aug 30 2005 11:10 AM

I had this posted in Funny Links on the old forum, but now seems the appropriate time to re-post The Gettysburg PowerPoint.

Yancy Street Gang Aug 30 2005 12:00 PM

Great article. I've had similar feelings about PowerPoint for years now. What particularly irks me is when printouts of PowerPoint slides are substituted for actual documentation. I've attended training classes where the course manuals are bound graphics of PowerPoint slides. Yeesh. At least when there's some stooge standing next to a projected slide, there's a slight chance that he'll say something of value. (Too often, though, the stooge just reads the slide out loud.) But a printout of a PowerPoint has no value at all.

MFS62 Aug 30 2005 05:10 PM

Man, do I hate it when I'm at a presentation when the presenter just reads what's on the slides, without adding any other information. And even worse is when they stand by the edge of the screen and read it off the screen like its the firsttime they've seen those words. Those are the folks I try to "burn" by asking lots of questions. Later

metsmarathon Aug 30 2005 05:22 PM

most of my graduate classes were taught off of ppt's. and of that, most of them were read verbatim. i feel that my graduate degree is essentially worthless, as it required me to do little in the way of either learning or work. oh, and i hate powerpoint with a passion.

Edgy DC Aug 30 2005 05:47 PM

And, like the NASA guys, you're doing critical thinking on critical work like ballistics. One of my colleagues is a badass guy. He's foreign-born and supposedly has a really mysterious war record that I can't talk about, is (again supposedly) employed under an assumed name, and has powerful friends (this I can confirm) and enemies (supposedly) in most cities we visit. He also uses staff meetings to absolutely torture me with PP presentations. The funny thing is, when anybody else dials up one of those dreadful things, I'm seated next to him and hear him snoring away, and have to slam into his seat to keep him awake.

MFS62 Aug 30 2005 07:19 PM

Edgy, from the way you describe your co-worker, you'd better hope that he likes to be kept awake. :) Later