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Can Google Kill PowerPoint?
theodp writes "Far from a PowerPoint killer, Slate's Paul Boutin finds Google's online presentation tool Preso more like a PowerPoint commercial — a half-baked app that shows how powerful Microsoft's program really is. But if you have your druthers, Boutin suggests ditching both and opting for Apple's Keynote, which helped snag an Oscar for Al Gore and inspired this Dear-PPT-Letter. 'The first hurdle ... You can't use it on a plane. Google Preso only works if you've got a live, high-bandwidth Internet connection. You can save the finished product to an HTML presentation on your laptop, but you can't edit the saved version or upload it back. The Splunkers would need to finalize their presos early in the morning in a rented conference room, where both Wi-Fi and Verizon wireless cards have been known to fail. That would kill the presentation.'"
You guys bitching about the presentation software dont understand big picture -- Presentations (that include a powerpoint-like slideshow) are a means to COMMUNICATE an idea or information in general. If used properly these can work to your advantage (remember 1picture==1000 words!) .. imagine trying to explain PageRank to a non-mathematical audience without a network diagram.
Further, IMO, experienced listeners (in the given domain) generally dont have problem in filtering out the "bells and whistles" from the actual CONTENT.
So stop whining, go to your mothers basements and write your kernel code.