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PowerPoint Makes You Dumb
jpatokal writes "The New York Times confirms what we've suspected all along: PowerPoint makes you dumb. In a new essay, information theorist Edward Tufte outlines why PowerPoint 'forces people to mutilate data beyond comprehension.' The Columbia Accident Investigation Board at NASA agrees, noting that the slides produced by engineers to report on the wing damage were so confusing that 'a senior manager might read this PowerPoint slide and not realize that it addresses a life-threatening situation.'" Tufte's essay (and the shuttle/PowerPoint critique) has been available for sale since earlier this year, but the NYT article gives a greater sampling of its content than Tufte's website does.
but I think grabbing a first post is worse.
the name of the operation that captured Saddam.
For those of you who haven't seen the movie "Red Dawn," you need to see it. It makes me proud to be an American.
To the rest of the world - you're welcome.
Iraqi resistance expected to diminish provided all the guerrillas receive Paul Bremer's memo. Initial reports of Saddam Hussein's capture indicate that he kept himself busy attempting to backdoor the Linux kernel and install rootkits on several Debian servers.
You're next McBride!
The breaking news is, of course, the fact that *BSD is still dead.
Saddam all along has been Mr. Mcbride
My God, an American SUCCESS!! That gets chalked up to Bush!!!
Where's Saddam? GITMO!!!!!
Iraqi people have been liberated from the tyranny of a brutal dictator and you whine about some WMDs. Who cares if Saddam had WMDs or was just bluffing?
you post this and not the news that saadam was captured?
Goes right to the core of the Palistinian character, doesn't it?
FWIW, ITN here in the UK just came back from VT and the newsreader announced "America's top general there, clearly sober."
Using HTML in email is like putting sound effects on your phone calls. Just say <strong>no</strong>.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Iraqi Dicator Saddam Hussein was found arrested in his Tikrit cave this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular repression. Truly an Iraqi icon.
Now get the hell out of my country.
Please, no more...
It's because this is Slashdot and PowerPoint is a Microsoft product. If Slashdot stopped posting super spun MS bash articles like this, their traffic would decrease. All part of knowing your customer.
... 400 million copies in circulation, and almost no corporate decision takes place without it. But what if PowerPoint is actually making us stupider?
This year, Edward Tufte -- the famous...
Perfect slashdot grammar! At the NYT! We are WINNING! Grammer Nazis, CHARGE!!!
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
From the news wire:
"The forces found no telephones, radios or other communications devices in Saddam's hideout, which Odierno said affirmed his suspicions that the captured dictator could not have been leading the anti-U.S. insurgency on a large scale. "
"I believe he was there more for moral support," Odierno said. "I don't believe he was coordinating the effort because I don't believe there's any national coordination."
So he wasn't the leader of the resistance. It's a home-grown, broad-based, resistance to foreign occupation - not an insurgency in support of Saddam. No surprise that Bush et al are working so hard to spin this one given the disasterous course of the occupation.