RE: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-10 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bob W -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of eckinator A few curious facts: 1. The Powerpoint creator has never intended it for such a broad user base. So it was designed for a much narrower category of users. I hear

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-10 Thread frank theriault
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: This is traditional: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/ Damn! You beat me to it... ;-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.  -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-08 Thread eckinator
2011/3/8 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: A few curious facts: 1. The Powerpoint creator has never intended it for such a broad user base. So it was designed for a much narrower category of users. I hear the whir of Alfred Nobel spinning in his grave.. if the creator of PowerPoint has any shred

RE: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-08 Thread Bob W
-Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of eckinator A few curious facts: 1. The Powerpoint creator has never intended it for such a broad user base. So it was designed for a much narrower category of users. I hear the whir of

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread Bob Sullivan
Boris, OMG, it's Flow Charting gone wild! And as the music played faster and faster I began to feel like I was working... Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! My (almost former) co-worker and a friend (and a fellow Nikonian) is

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread eckinator
Definitely interesting. Ask him if he needs a German distributor! Cheers Ecke 2011/3/7 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: Hi! My (almost former) co-worker and a friend (and a fellow Nikonian) is developing an interesting project management system he called Gigantt. We discussed it in some

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread Igor Roshchin
Nice funny video with Sweet Georgia Brown, - one of the most popular gipsy-jazz songs of all times (and a favorite of many Balboa-swing dancers). As for gone wild, - as Bob wrote, - it reminded me a video on PowerPoint presentations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvgfmEU2Ck Cheers, Igor On

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread Larry Colen
On Mar 7, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Nice funny video with Sweet Georgia Brown, - one of the most popular gipsy-jazz songs of all times (and a favorite of many Balboa-swing dancers). As for gone wild, - as Bob wrote, - it reminded me a video on PowerPoint presentations:

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Roberts
Larry Colen wrote: How would you kill someone with a power point presentation? I thought that was the function of all Powerpoint presentations. -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

RE: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread Bob W
My friend Charlie has a great series of books (The Laundryverse) based on two premises: The C'thulu is real Besides saying spells out loud, you can also perform them by running a series of operations on a computer. One day he was working on a scene for one of his books and posted to his

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/7/2011 4:49 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Larry Colen wrote: How would you kill someone with a power point presentation? I thought that was the function of all Powerpoint presentations. I think a deep coma is the usual expected effect. -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Mark Roberts wrote: Larry Colen wrote: How would you kill someone with a power point presentation? I thought that was the function of all Powerpoint presentations. he's not dead, he's just sleeping ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread drd1135
I've been through a few that made a ten story fall seem more appealing than usual. --Original Message-- From: Mark Roberts Sender: pdml-boun...@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List ReplyTo: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo Sent: Mar 7, 2011 4:49 PM

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Roberts
drd1...@gmail.com wrote: Larry Colen wrote: How would you kill someone with a power point presentation? I thought that was the function of all Powerpoint presentations. I've been through a few that made a ten story fall seem more appealing than usual. This is traditional:

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread Igor Roshchin
Mark Roberts wrote: Larry Colen wrote: How would you kill someone with a power point presentation? I thought that was the function of all Powerpoint presentations. As with any tools, there are good ways of using it, and there are the ways that a majority uses it. A few curious

Re: Off Topic: A bit of a promo

2011-03-07 Thread Boris Liberman
On 3/7/2011 9:06 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: As for gone wild, - as Bob wrote, - it reminded me a video on PowerPoint presentations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvgfmEU2Ck Cheers, Igor I was once given a course in technical presentations. I should say that although not that cheerfully and