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Accelerated PowerPoint?

Posted by michael on from the just-what-the-world-needs dept.

darkjohnson writes "If you're looking for an excuse to offer your manager to approve that high end graphics card so you can play Doom 3 at full tilt (on your 'breaks' ;) you might want to check out the Instant Effects' technology as it has the first product (OfficeFX) that justifies upgrading your display hardware so you can do a POWER POINT presentation of all things. Especially true if you're the one stuck with the duty of making them look good. I saw this at Siggraph and was not only impressed with the look but the number of people packed into the booth to see it demoed, competing side by side with real time 3D game renders and high-end effects software."

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  1. Re:My eyes hurt by sublimusasterisk · · Score: 5, Informative

    I totally agree. Just a little tip that someone mentioned a while ago that I'm using until slashdot stops their excessive crack smoking... change the first part of any slashot url to one that you like the colors of.

    For example, this one is of the form it.slashdot.org. But if you change just the "it" part to, say "linux" (yielding something like linux.slashdot.org) the color scheme changes to that of the linux section, but keeps the same content of the article you're reading.

    AFAIK, this works for all sub-sections.

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  2. Tufte on PowerPoint by image · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely."

    Though I'm sure I won't be last to reference this, Yale's professor emeritus Edward Tufte has been writing about PowerPoint for a while. This piece in Wired helps explain how the cognative processes encouraged by PP presentations are subtly (and not-so-subtly) corrupting the way we perceive data. And you can purchase his whole essay here.

    Whether or not you agree with all of Tufte's work, he is among the seminal thinkers about how we disseminate information. And having sat through too many years worth of PP presentations, I think he's dead right about this. I fact, I do my presentations from notes, using nothing more than dry-erase markers and a whiteboard. It never fails to impart an order of magnitude more information than a static bullet-point presentation ever could.

  3. Why are you looking at /. with the stupid colors? by Safety+Cap · · Score: 4, Informative
    1. Go, right now, to your preferences.
    2. Click on the "homepage" section.
    3. Click on "Light".
    4. Hit "enter"/click submit

    Yes, it takes some getting used to, but leave it there for a week and see if you don't like it better.

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