On 9/1/06, edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't import powerpoint files. For a government lab, where > productivity can, at times, seem synonymous with productivity, this > can be really annoying. I'm a chroot now. What I really meant was that power point can, at times, seem synomymous with productivity. AFIK, productivity is always synonymous with productivity.
As far as I can tell, endemic use of PowerPoint can be life-threatening... "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 Columbia Accident Investigation Board concluded, citing Tufte's work. The board devoted a full page of its 2003 report to the issue, criticizing a space agency culture in which, it said, "the endemic use of PowerPoint" substituted for rigorous technical analysis. Of course, then, there's the Truly Great PowerPoint presentation... http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/ -- http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/linux.html Oddly enough, this is completely standard behaviour for shells. This is a roundabout way of saying `don't use combined chains of `&&'s and `||'s unless you think Gödel's theorem is for sissies'.
