In a message dated: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:56:09 EDT
Benjamin Scott said:
> Hrm. From a purely pragmatic stance, I see your point. However, I cannot
>forget that it wasn't long ago at all that Linux was excluded from that list
>of "major platforms". I disliked closed formats like Flash before, and the
>fact that Linux-on-Intel has crossed some arbitrary threshold which makes
>Macromedia think it is worth supporting doesn't change my opinion of them.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. IMO, if you're doing a presentation, and I
don't care what platform it's on, MS, Unix, Mac, I'd much rather see simple
text, simple graphs, and simple diagrams that convey the *MEANING* of your
presentation rather than all the flash crap people put into their presentation
attempting you "wow" you with their secretary's technical prowess at mouse
manipulation.
Scott McNealey actually told people at Sun that if you need MS products to do
presentations, then it must be time to stop doing them. Sun then increased a
period of unbelievable increase in productivity :)
Regardless of what software comes out to make presentations "easier", I will
continue using LyX and FoilTex. If I need a diagram, that's what xfig is for;
a graph, then I've got gnuplot.
These are all simple tools which each do one thing, and do it well. Glue them
together and you end up with quite a powerful result.
But no, sales weenies and marketing droids insist upon flashy presentations
which tell you nothing other than that they wasted 12 hours putting the thing
together, and they still couldn't agree upon a color scheme which doesn't
resemble vomit!
</end rant>
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Seeya,
Paul
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I meet lots of interesting people that way."
Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
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